Re: REPOST: Dealing with case sensitivity

Please ignore the above.

Fingers engaged before brain.

Thanks.

Dan Morgan

"Daniel A. Morgan" wrote:

> Unlikely.
>
> UPPER('ha%')
>
> is the same as
>
> ('HA%')
>
> I think your upper is on the wrong side of the equals sign.
>
> Daniel Morgan
>
> Mike Casey wrote:
>
> > I think this will work:
> > select * from employee where lastname LIKE Upper('ha%')
> >
> > "John Harris" <harris.john.a_at_worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
> > news:8$--$%%%_$_%%$%_%$@news.noc.cabal.int...
> > > 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?
> > >
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Received on Fri Feb 01 2002 - 11:25:12 CST