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Re: Optimizing SQL question

On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 4:37 PM, Dean Eshleman
<Dean.Eshleman@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Then, I ran the statement specifying the logical,

Don't do that.

Would the UPPER function have much of an impact?  Is there a way to avoid using that?

Yep. UPPER causes a full table/index scan....

What you need to do instead is create a case insensitive index and do
your search without respect to case...

Try this thread: ;)
http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l/200807/msg01569.html

HTH,
Charles

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