Re: case insensitive select

From: Mladen Gogala <gogala_at_sbcglobal.net>
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 11:10:15 +0000
Message-Id: <1113390615l.4930l.0l@medo.noip.com>

On 04/13/2005 07:00:31 AM, John Dunn wrote:
> I am doing a slect on 15 million rows of data. I want to do a case
> insensitive serach, but using the TO_UPPER clause just slows performance
> dramatically.

>=20
> Any other way to do it?

Yes. You can try with to_lower or read about function-based indexes. That's a classic example of what they're used for.=20

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Mladen Gogala
Oracle DBA

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