[Tutor] formatting sql Was: Some help Please

Alan Gauld alan.gauld at btinternet.com
Wed Feb 15 19:30:28 CET 2012


On 15/02/12 18:03, James Reynolds wrote:

> >    In you table the acc_id is 'mn0001'
> >    In your sql Acc_ID = 'MN0001'
> >    Why the difference in case?
>
> Normally, sql doesn't care about case with respect to table names. I
> believe in certain implementations they are always lower case, even if
> you pass an upper.

The issue is not the table (or even column name) its the value within 
it. Comparing 'mn0001' to 'MN0001' will fail.

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