Re: [GENERAL] non-case sensitive searches

On Wed, 13 Jan 1999, Kevin Heflin wrote:
> Currently I have a select statement like so:
>
> select * from photos where keywords LIKE '%$cat_name%'
>
> The above select statement works, except that it is case sensitive.
> Is there a way to do this that is not case sensitive?


Sorry for the lame question, I found a suggestion on some SQL mailing list
archive which suggested using:

SELECT * from photos were lower(keywords) LIKE lower('%$cat_name%'






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