Hello Chris,
You also can store that name as lowercase like 'scott' and always use where ..
person.name like lower( v_name ) || '%' ..
When you need to display it, use something like initcap( person.name ).
Actually, it depends on whether you need the store exact case entered by user nor not
( ex, surname like DeSoto )..
HTH,
Michael
www.atelo.com
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> Hello all,
>
> Oracle Standard Edition 8.0.5
>
> How are people handling storing data, such as a name, in the database, and
> then being able to successfully retrieve it? It's possible that the same
> name can be stored twice, such as Scott and SCOTT. Normally, I believe that
> developers would use an upper function based index on the left side of the
> WHERE equation and a UPPER function on the right side to resolve queries.
> But since this project is running Standard Edition that doesn't seem to
> address this problem.
>
> So I was curious as to what other DBAs/developers/projects are doing??
>
> TIA!!
>
> Chris
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