Oracle is a great RDBMS, but the fact that searches against the database are case-sensitive can be a pain in the butt. Here’s how you can make searches case-insensitive…
In SQL…
1 2 | ALTER session SET NLS_SORT=BINARY_CI; ALTER session SET NLS_COMP=LINGUISTIC; |
For use in Perl::DBI…
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 | use strict; use DBI; my $dbh = DBI->connect( 'dbi:Oracle:schema_name', 'user', 'password', { RaiseError => 1, AutoCommit => 0, on_connect_do => [ 'alter session set NLS_SORT=BINARY_CI', 'alter session set NLS_COMP=LINGUISTIC' ] } ) || die "Database connection not made: $DBI::errstr"; $dbh->disconnect(); |
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