Re: Help: Case insensitive sort.

From: Tommy Wareing <p0070621_at_oxford-brookes.ac.uk>
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 1994 08:47:41 GMT
Message-ID: <Crw8FH.2GJ_at_uk.ac.brookes>


The Peasant (prashant_at_cs.pitt.edu) wrote:
> Hi !!,
 

> We came across a problem (feature) which we need some insights into.
> Oracle seems to differenciate (rightly so) between upper and lower case
> when we are performing sort on a char field.
> The thing we want to accomplish is for oracle to not-differenciate
> between 'A' and 'a'etc...
> so when we query the data sorted on say title we would like to see the
> following,

ORDER BY UPPER(TITLE) instead of ORDER BY TITLE

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