Re: Case sensitive

dyou98_at_aol.com (D.Y.) wrote in message news:<f369a0eb.0205061927.56e59372_at_posting.google.com>...
> rsusanto_at_atlas-sp.com (Rudy Susanto) wrote in message news:<1a928d0b.0205060152.467b9d26_at_posting.google.com>...
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I need some suggestions about case sensitive implementation.
> >
> > SQL> select * from dept;
> > DEPTNO DNAME LOC
> > ---------- -------------- -------------
> > 10 ACCOUNTING NEW YORK
> > 20 RESEARCH DALLAS
> > 30 SALES CHICAGO
> > 40 OPERATIONS BOSTON
> >
> > SQL> select * from dept where loc='boston';
> > no rows selected
> >
> > I realise that i have to modified the query according to the oracle
> > way.
> > I know about the oracle behavior but i don't know the good way to
> > apply to the production.
> > Right now we choose another database like oracle as our database but
> > we have a little problem about case sensitive, as long as we use
> > sqlserver we never met this problem.
>
> That's interesting. My limited SQL Server knowledge tells me it won't
> return 'BOSTON' when you ask for 'boston'. Is there a parameter you can
> to make it do this?

When we try to install sqlserver, sqlserver allow us to change the default setting in the Collation Settings dialog box like case-sensitive/case-insensitive option. In sqlserver we can only have one of the case-sensitive or the case-insensitive for the instance of sqlserver.

>
> >
> > May be there are some tricks to solve this problem that i can apply:
> > 1. create trigger to each table to convert every text into upper case,
> > or
> > 2. always use upper case on front-end to make sure the data in upper
> > case
> > 3. or the others
> >
> > As addition information we use clarion as our front-end.
> >
> > Is there a way to change the oracle setting that allow us ignore about
> > the case sensitive? so we do not need to use the upper function.
> >
> >
> > Thank in advance,
> >
> > Rudy Susanto
Received on Tue May 07 2002 - 20:49:11 CDT