Re: How to "Case Insensitive"

There is *no* global setting.
This is because only the Microsoft Realm (aka the Evil Empire) is case-insensitive, while the rest of the world is case-sensitive. There are three solutions to this
- use UPPER(columnname) = <expression>
  this will result in full table scans
- create redundant columns with the UPPERcased contents of the mixed case columns and index them
- In Oracle 8i, Enterprise Edition, use function-based indexes.

Hth,

Sybrand Bakker, Oracle DBA

"Real R. Bedard" <realb_at_helixdp.com> wrote in message news:SG_h5.687$Z2.12800_at_nnrp1.uunet.ca...
> How do I make Oracle queries (from all users in all
> databases/schemas/tables) case insensitive.
>
> example:
> SELECT * FROM mytable WHERE name = 'fred'
> should have the same result as
> SELECT * FROM mytable WHERE name = 'FReD'
>
> similarly for ORDER BY etc.
>
> Is there a global setting for this?
>
> Your assistance is greatly appreciated.
>
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> Thanks
>
> Real R. Bedard
> realb_at_helixdp.com
>
>
>
Received on Wed Aug 02 2000 - 00:00:00 CDT