Re: Case insensitive comparisons - no way?

Yep that's how bubba did it until he traded in the camaro and the low-profile tires for an enterprise edition.

"John Jones" <john.jones_at_duke.edu> wrote in message news:8gbem7$n11$1_at_news.duke.edu...
> 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
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> Alexander Jerusalem <ajeruNOajSPAM_at_gmx.net.invalid> wrote in message
> news:125b7ef1.2125739b_at_usw-ex0108-063.remarq.com...
> > 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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Received on Mon May 22 2000 - 00:00:00 CDT