On Sun, 22 Jun 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Sun, 22 Jun 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > MySQL also does case independent text comparisions, and apparently ONLY > > > case-insensitive comparisons. > > > > Is this a good thing? Doesn't sound like it to me, but figured I'd ask :) > > I think it is a classic case of thinking 'small'. :-) > > The CIO on the project I'm working on thinks it is a good thing, > but he's coming from a MySQL environment, which he only learned in the > last year or so and he does not appear to have a lot of familiarity with > larger databases. > > Personally, if I want case insensitivity, I'll WRITE IT INTO THE CODE, > but I can see how some people might think that 'NOLAN', 'Nolan' and > 'nolan' should be considered as the same data.
Oh, you mean like "SELECT * FROM table WHERE field ~* 'nolan';"? ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly