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Can I use upper or lower to create an index
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Published: 09 Nov 2011
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Can I use upper or lower to create an index Published by: Danny Hayes on 09 Nov 2011 view comments(1)

We receive a file from one of our partners that contains first and last name.

We need to order the file by name, but they send us mixed case names.

Is there a way to create an index of some type by using either the upper or lower function on the name fields?

Undecided

I thought I had done this in Oracle SQL, but it could have been one of those dreams.

Thanks for your input.

Danny

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Posted by: bobcozzi
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Comment on: Can I use upper or lower to create an index
Posted: 12 years 4 months 20 days 2 hours 18 minutes ago

In DDS, use:   ALTSEQ(QSYSTRNTBL)

at the file-level.

 

In SQL, use:  ORDER BY upper(lastname), upper(firstName)