Not that I know of, but if you don't do binary (case-sensitive)
searching then does it really matter?? You can retrieve with LOWER, or
put it in your application, if your application needs to display it
that way.
-Sheeri
On 5/18/06, Ferindo Middleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have column and
I have column and I want to make sure the db is always making sure the
value
that gets input into this VARCHAR() column is always lowercase;
Is there a way to set the value of a column within a table to
automatically
be lowercase. I know how to use the LOWER() function when performing
You could always use a trigger on BEFORE UPDATE/BEFORE INSERT which
changes NEW.column to LOWER(column). I know it's not declarative, but
it works.
sheeri kritzer wrote:
Not that I know of, but if you don't do binary (case-sensitive)
searching then does it really matter?? You can retrieve
Thanks Jay. Yeah, I'll just write a trigger... It sure would be cool though
if you could say something like... ADD COLUMN new_column VARCHAR(100)
DEFAULT LOWER(new_column) and then be done without having to
explicitly define a trigger for it.
This is for a userid field. Userid values at my
I have column and I want to make sure the db is always making sure the value
that gets input into this VARCHAR() column is always lowercase;
Is there a way to set the value of a column within a table to automatically
be lowercase. I know how to use the LOWER() function when performing queries
