On Tuesday 01 July 2003 17:11, Alejandro Javier Pomeraniec wrote: > Hi ! Does anyone knows how to make accent insensitive searches?? > > For example > > i have this data in a table > > -------- > Colón > Polo > -------- > > I need that this query > > SELECT * FROM testtable WHERE testfield like '%olo%'; > > brings both results instead of only showing Polo.
One solution[*]: SELECT * FROM testtable WHERE to_ascii(testfield,'LATIN1') LIKE '%olo%' Note this might not work with all database encodings, especially UNICODE. [*] no doubt someone will be along in a moment with another. Ian Barwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
