Re: REPOST: Dealing with case sensitivity

Unlikely.

UPPER('ha%')

is the same as

('HA%')

I think your upper is on the wrong side of the equals sign.

Daniel Morgan

Mike Casey wrote:

> I think this will work:
> select * from employee where lastname LIKE Upper('ha%')
>
> "John Harris" <harris.john.a_at_worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
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> > How does one handle case sensitivity with string searches using the LIKE
> > operator?
> > If I have something like: select * from employee where lastname LIKE "ha%"
> > But I want to get all possibilities regardless of case sensitivity -
> harris,
> > Harris HArris HARRIS haRRis...
> >
> > Is this possible with straight SQL against an Oracle database?
> >
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