Re: [GENERAL] non-case sensitive searches

> 
> On Wed, 13 Jan 1999, Gilles Darold wrote:
> 
> > Hi Kevin,
> > 
> > You can also use regexp expression like this :
> > 
> >     SELECT * FROM photos WHERE keywords ~* '.*$cat_name.*';
> > 
> > it works fine.
> 
> 
> Thanks for the tip. Any recommendations as to which would be faster when
> searching about 2,000 records or so..
> 
> WHERE keywords ~* '.*$cat_name.*';
> 
> or
> 
> WHERE lower(keywords) LIKE lower('%$cat_name%')

Well, you could (1) omit the second "lower()" function
(like '%cat_name%' is already in lower case!) (2) insure that your
table already contains nothing but lower-case (or upper-case) entries,
if appropriate.

- Tim