Re: Case insensitive SELECT statment
Posted in 1997
In article <345F1281.62D2F03C@kmpinternet.com>, danny@kmpinternet.com
says...
> Anyone no how to perform a select statement which isn't case sensitive?
>
> In SQL Server i'd use the following:
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> SELECT * FROM myTable WHERE myColumn LIKE '%hello%'>
> But it doesn't seem to work in Informix
>
> Any ideas?
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> Danny Codling
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Try looking in
http://www.iiug.org/software/software_index.html#ISQL
you will find a couple of links to stored procedures that you can use
to convert the data in your column to uppercase, then all you need to do
is to do you like using uppercase.
Hope this helps
Michael J. Erickson