Title: Avoiding full table scan

Hi All,


I wish to avoid a full tablescan on the following data

V. Zanen
Zanen
Van Zanen
...
...
...
Lot's more data


Select * from table where upper(name) like '%ZANEN%'

I could create a function based index on upper(name) but this does not take care of the % and like operator.

Oracle has this (I believe it's called) context stuff that you can index varchar  fields etc.  Is this the (only possible?) way to go??

TIA


Jack

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