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Re: Convert Mixed case data to Upper/Lower case

From: Thomas Pall <tpall_at_bga.com>
Date: 12 Nov 98 21:59:46 GMT
Message-ID: <364b5a52.0@feed1.realtime.net>


You are wondering if there is a switch you throw which presents upper or lower case. There is not. You would have to update the data in the NAME column to upper or lower case. Assuming you have enough rollback space, you could update table, set name=upper(name);

sanjay.raj_at_roche.com wrote:
: I have a table with 2 million rows and the names in NAME column are entered
: in Mixed case.I don't want the users to use UPPER/LOWER in their queries and
: hence would like to change the data to all upper/lower case. What is the best
: way to do this?

: Thanks

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-- Received on Thu Nov 12 1998 - 15:59:46 CST

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