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Re: how to do case insensitive text literal comparison?

From: <bonanos_at_yahoo.com>
Date: 1998/10/23
Message-ID: <70pqmo$5vd$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>#1/1

  "mdr" <resnimi_at_mail.northgrum.com> wrote:
> Try the SELECT... WHERE UPPER(COLUMN1) = 'A'

The only problem with that is that if there is an index on COLUMN1 it will invalidate it and cause a full table scan.

An option is to automatically change all values inserted into COLUMN1 to uppercase.

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