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Re: Oracle is only case sensitive ?????

From: Hanne Iren Midttun <hannem_at_tihlde.org>
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 10:18:09 +0100
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0302181015550.23767-100000@colargol.tihlde.org>


But, what is a password then?

eg: alter user system identified by bigBandA; sqlplus system/bigbanda

This works fine for me. (8.1.7.4 and AIX 4.3)

regards Hanne

--
Hanne Midttun
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English is not my native tounge

On Mon, 17 Feb 2003, Niall Litchfield wrote:


> I suspect that the answers to what you are asking are respectively Yes and
> then No.
>
> Oracle is case insensitive for identifiers i.e
>
> select * from scott.emp; is the same as
> select * from SCOTT.emP;
>
> but case sensitive for data, that is
>
> 'McDonald' is not the same as 'mcdonald'
>
>
> --
> Niall Litchfield
> Oracle DBA
> Audit Commission UK
> "Mauro" <benedetto_at_XXXXBluXP.com> wrote in message
> news:XY74a.16790$uA5.418938_at_tornado.fastwebnet.it...
> > Is Oracle 8i only Case-Sensitive??
> > Does not exist a parameter in database creation or installation for permit
> > case insensitive.
> >
> > thanks
> > Mauro
> >
> >
>
>
>
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