Actually, before Oracle 8i, I would suggest all coulmns be stored in all
CAPS. That makes searching easier. You can always display to the screen or
reports in any format that you want.
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John Jones
Senior Oracle DBA
Duke University OIT
john.jones_at_duke.edu
Alexander Jerusalem <ajeruNOajSPAM_at_gmx.net.invalid> wrote in message
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> Thank you for your answer Mark.
>
> Unfortunately I can't use the OR trick you are suggesting because
> most of the fields I have to deal with are names. Names of
> institutions, names of people, nick names, titles of books and
> magazines and so on. Everything will be in mixed case and must
> stay in mixed case for display on the screen and on reports.
>
> So I guess my only option is to store all the fields twice, once
> for display and once for the queries. That's awful.
>
> My other choice obviously is to go back to Microsoft SQL Server
> which I had hoped to have left behind forever.
>
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> Alexander Jerusalem
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