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  Re: MySQLdb compare lower Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2012-12-12 02:03 -0500

#34689 — Re: MySQLdb compare lower

On Tue, 11 Dec 2012 22:01:18 +0100, Anatoli Hristov <tolidtm@gmail.com>
declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general:

> Hello guys,
> 
> Excuse me for the noob question, but is there a way to compare a field
> in mysql as lower() somehow?
> 
> I have a situation where I compare the SKU in my DB and there are some
> SKU that are with lowercase and some with uppercase, how can I solve
> this in your opinion ?
>
	According to the old "MySQL Language Reference" 

"""
By default, string comparisons are not case sensitive and will use the
current character set (ISO-8859-1 Latin1 by default, which also works
excellently for English).
"""

	I suppose one may encounter a MySQL database where the system
default has been configured to be case sensitive

	The other option might be to run a (hopefully) one-time update
operation:

update theTable set SKU = LOWER(SKU);

and then ensure that any user input is forced to lowercase before it
gets into the database.
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