From oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Mon Aug 8 19:50:43 2005 Return-Path: Received: from air891.startdedicated.com (root@localhost) by orafaq.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j790ohgo007358 for ; Mon, 8 Aug 2005 19:50:43 -0500 X-ClientAddr: 206.53.239.180 Received: from turing.freelists.org (freelists-180.iquest.net [206.53.239.180]) by air891.startdedicated.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j790ofIP007349 for ; Mon, 8 Aug 2005 19:50:41 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id E60651DD4AC; Mon, 8 Aug 2005 19:50:37 -0500 (EST) Received: from turing.freelists.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (turing [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 00917-05; Mon, 8 Aug 2005 19:50:37 -0500 (EST) Received: from turing (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id 69DC81DD481; Mon, 8 Aug 2005 19:50:37 -0500 (EST) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5.7226.0 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by Ecartis Subject: RE: case sensitivity - database setting? Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2005 10:46:41 +1000 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: case sensitivity - database setting? thread-index: AcWceRXkHUuby5c7SUOdjI9DldTAcwAApS3g From: "Grant Allen" To: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 09 Aug 2005 00:38:45.0656 (UTC) FILETIME=[B3367180:01C59C7A] X-Server: High Performance Mail Server - http://surgemail.com r6955829 X-archive-position: 23599 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Errors-To: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org X-original-sender: Grant.Allen@towersoft.com.au Precedence: normal Reply-To: Grant.Allen@towersoft.com.au X-list: oracle-l X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p9 (Debian) at avenirtech.net X-Amavis-Alert: BAD HEADER Non-encoded 8-bit data (char 89 hex) in message header 'X-Server' X-Server: ... Mail Server - http://surgemail.com r\2116955829\n ^ X-mailscan-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-mailscan-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-From: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on air891.startdedicated.com X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=2.63 On 8/8/05, J. Dex wrote: > We are setting up an application (third-party out-of the-box type) and the > group that is setting it up would like to set it up so that when users > search for records the searches are NOT case sensitive. > Is there an Oracle database setting that would facilitate this? The > application vendor said it is a database issue and has to > be set on the database side. Sounds like your 3rd-party vendor has done a kludge to port from SQL Server or Sybase, and hasn't really got a clue about this sort of thing. Ask them for Oracle reference sites ... see what pain other people have experienced. (And yes, I work for company that gets it right when porting :-) ). Ciao Fuzzy :-) ---------------------------------- "Everything you think, do, and say was in the pill you took today." -- Zager and Evans -- http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l