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Case-insensitive Custom Collating Sequence

pam
We have a customer who would like to see their data sorted in a case-
insensitive manner. I've tried several of the out of the box collating
sequences (identity, system, compatibility) but none of them result in
the ordering they would like to see. Has anyone used the Create
Database API to pass in a custom collating sequence that would result
in a case-insensitive sort (ie a=A for weight)? Are there samples of
how to do this? Any drawbacks or issues I should be aware of?

We can't change the database schema to use generated columns, nor are
we going to change our SQL statements to use "order by UPPER(name)".

Thanks, Pam

May 18 '07 #1
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