Re: Case insensitive queries

From: Daniel Morgan <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu>
Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2003 14:49:39 -0800
Message-ID: <1070059808.556636@yasure>

Hans Forbrich wrote:

> Phil Kaufman wrote:
>

>>Personally I think what has happened is Oracle has listened to a number
>>of whinny "competitor" database users cry the blues about having the
>>ability to have case insensitive data in their wonderful database (term
>>used loosely for those competitor products), and the likes of Mark and
>>the gang at Oracle have given in, rather then telling these people what
>>they are (idiots).

>
>
> Telling customers and potential customers they are idiots is generally
> not conducive to sales.
>
> Telling customers and potential customers 'me too' occasionally reduces
> potential market share erosion.

I agree. I've no complaint with Oracle implementing it. Lots of companies implement lots of foolish things for purposes of marketing and sales.

By problem is with people that use it. They need to clean up what they do and achieve a higher standard in their IT development.

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