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Re: Dealing with case sensitivity

From: Bricklen Anderson <bricklen_at_shaw.ca>
Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2002 06:32:39 GMT
Message-ID: <3C539E8F.A15893B8@shaw.ca>


try: select * from employee where lastname like UPPER('HA%');

John Harris wrote:
>
> How does one handle case sensitivity with string searches using the LIKE
> operator?
> If I have something like: select * from employee where lastname LIKE "ha%"
> But I want to get all possibilities regardless of case sensitivity - harris,
> Harris HArris HARRIS haRRis...
>
> Is this possible with straight SQL against an Oracle database?
>
> John Harris
Received on Sun Jan 27 2002 - 00:32:39 CST

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