Re: Lowercase field names in SQL views

it's the nature of SQL...

You'd have to create the table with the field names in quotes to make them
lowercase

create table mytable ("myfield" CHAR (10 ))

but note that you'll always have to use the quotes to reference it

select myfield from mytable
Column MYFIELD not in specified tables.

select "myfield" from mytable
SELECT statement run complete.
....+....1
"myfield"
******** End of data ********



HTH,
Charles



On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 12:26 PM, James H. H. Lampert <
jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

We've had a request, in connection with BIRT reports on our Wintouch
product, to have lowercase field names in our SQL views (my
understanding is that the tools provide some sort of menu of field
names, when generating SQL)

I spent about half an hour going through the source for our SQL view
generator, attempting to implement exactly that, and then, when I just
ran a test on the result, while the SQL source members did indeed have
all lowercase field names, when I then looked at the file from Squirrel
SQL, the field names still came up all-uppercase.

Is that just the nature of DB2/400?

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JHHL
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