Re: how can I make a "LIKE" select with case insensitivity using Oracle ?????
| From: | George Schlossnagle | Date: | Thu, 07 Sep 2000 16:00:17 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: how can I make a "LIKE" select with case insensitivity using Oracle ????? | ||
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If you're running 8i, you can build a function-based index on
to_upper(company).
Thies Arntzen wrote:
>
> On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 11:03:25PM -0400, Stephen Blake wrote:
> > Try this
> >
> > select company from mytable where to_upper(company) like 'XA%';
>
> which is going to force a table-scan (bad luck;-)
>
> tc
> >
> > 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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