Use "LIKE" clause instead of "="
SELECT item_number FROM item WHERE item_code LIKE 'M1234' ;
This will perform case-insensitive matching on all databases I used
before (Including Oracle, MySQL, SQL-Server)
----- Original Message -----
From: "ramki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 5:46 AM
Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] Query Case In-sensitive
> Generally in DBs, data is case sensitive.
>
> Simply you can do an uppercase or lowercase conversion in both sides.
>
> Ex : Select item number from item where upper(item_code) = upper("m1234");
>
> -ramki
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Larry Sandwick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 1:23 AM
> Subject: [PHP-DB] Query Case In-sensitive
>
>
> > Is there a way to run a query so that it ignores the case, and the query
> > is not case sensitive?
> >
> > The data being stored is "m1234"
> >
> > Query
> >
> > Select item number from item where item_code = "M1234" ;
> >
> > The query above should return the data above.
> >
> > TIA
> >
> >
> >
> > Larry Sandwick
> >
> > Sarreid, Ltd.
> >
> > Network/System Administrator
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> > phone: (252) 291-1414 x223
> >
> > fax : (252) 237-1592
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