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Old 10-13-03, 11:37
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Ignore CASE

Hey,

Anybody know how to ignore CASE sensitivety in sql statements

table1.c1 = 'abc' and table2.c1 = 'ABC' i need these to match

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Old 10-13-03, 13:17
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Re: Ignore CASE

I believe some DBMSs let you "turn off" case sensitivity. In Oracle you can't do that, you would have to change the query to e.g.:

UPPER(table.c1) = 'ABC'
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