Hello Clay,

thanks for replying to the message,

> I suspect very strongly that most SQLite users are submitting themselves
> to that discipline which I suggested in an earlier message, principally
> that we don't expect SQLite to cover for our own inconsistencies in column
> naming.  The discipline is fairly simple and I heartily encourage you to
> submit to it.

I do agree that programming requires discipline. I myself am quite
disciplined in programming (well, that's my personal oppinion about me, some
people may think differently). The trouble is that my users aren't :-)

The SQLiteDb ActiveX wrapper is written by me. My users complain that after
the 3.2.1 update they aren't able to reference columns unless they respect
case-sensitivityness. And I, as an independent software developer, cannot
send emails to clients asking them to be disciplined :-)
I could change my code to perform a case-insensitive comparison for column
names but that would lead to a performance penalty (big enough not to do
it).

On the other hand, if you've read the document attached on the wiki, you'll
notice that there are differences in the way sqlite treats column names as
opposed to SQL Server and MySQL.

And I don't really think I'm asking much: all I want is that when I ask for
Field1 column, the database engine to report Field1 and not FIELD1. Do you
think this is a stupid think to ask?

Thanks again.
George.

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