Re: LIKE case-insentive ?

Jonathon Coombes <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.openoffice.dba.user
Organization Cybersite Consulting Pty Ltd
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, 2005-09-07 at 18:41 -0400, Andrew Jensen wrote:
> Hello Henri
> 
> Off the top of  my head I suppose you could get the case-insensitive 
> part by casting both sides to Upper or Lower case.
> 
> SELECT "WORD" FROM "WORDS" "WORDS" where ucase( "WORD" ) LIKE ucase('Fish')
> 
> Don't think that will do the trick with accents...but I will keep thinking.

I know that some databases has the two keywords LIKE and ILIKE,
one for case-sensitive and the other for case-insensitive matching.
Does this work at all?

Regards
Jonathon
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