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Jeff Murphy wrote:
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> Antonio Melo (avm_at_novabase.pt) wrote:
> > 2. use " where upper(name) like 'MAR%' " => performance problems...
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> what are the performance implications of using this technique to provide
> case insensitive searches?
Oracle optimizer can not use index in this case, and performance suffers
David Ng Received on Sun Nov 17 1996 - 00:00:00 CST