Re: small and big letter in WHERE statement

From: Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 05:47:49 +0000
Subject: Re: small and big letter in WHERE statement
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John Nichel sagde: > QT wrote: >> Dear Sirs, >> >> When I use where statement, I see that there is no meaning small and big >> letter. Without looking small caps or big, result comes back. But I want to >> match only small letters. How can I do that? >> >> Best REgards >> > > Where statement for what? MySQL? If so, I don't think you can do it on > the SQL end as WHERE is normally case-insensitive. You could use a > regular expression while looping thru your result set. > > -- In MySQL you can use the binary() to select case sensitive. example: select field_1, count(*) from table where field_1 = 'test' group by binary(field_1); could give a result looking like this: test 5 tEst 1 tesT 1 Test 100 select field_1, count(*) from table where binary(field_1) = 'test' group by binary(field_1); would then only give test 5

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