Re: how can I make a "LIKE" select with case insensitivity using Oracle ?????
| From: | Stephen Blake | Date: | Thu, 07 Sep 2000 03:03:25 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: how can I make a "LIKE" select with case insensitivity using Oracle ????? | ||
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Try this
select company from mytable where to_upper(company) like 'XA%';
cheers,
Stephen Blake
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joey Garcia" <jgarcia@mobilize.com>
To: <php-db@lists.php.net>
Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2000 4:50 PM
Subject: [PHP-DB] how can I make a "LIKE" select with case insensitivity
using Oracle ?????
> A company name is "Xavor"
> and I want to prompt a user (using WML) to type in the first 2 characters
of
> a company name then perform select on it, such as :
>
> select company from mytable where company like 'xa%' #this returns nothing
> select company from mytable where company like 'Xa%' #this returns Xavor
>
>
> Any help would be appreciated
>
> -- Joey
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