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Querying case sensitive data

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Hi

We have a table that we use to fix names of new customers. 

We take the different parts of the name and match it against this table. E.g. we transform "Von" to "von".

However, we have a problem right now. We have two values containing the same characters, but with different casing. In this case, we want "AF" to be translated into "af", but "af" should be translated into "Af"(nevermind the reason for this seemingly strange logic, but we have a good reason)

When I query the table for the value "af" I get the record with value "AF" in return, i.e. not the record that I was looking for.

Is it possible to make this query case sensitive?

/Jonas 

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    Lauras U Profile Picture
    Lauras U 955 on at

    You can try strCmp Function. The comparison performed by this method is case-sensitive.

    Read more at:

    msdn.microsoft.com/.../aa672979.aspx

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    Martin Dráb 237,948 Most Valuable Professional on at

    Your DB ingores case because its collation is set to "case-insensitive".

    You could change a collation for your query (see COLLATE in T-SQL, if you're using SQL Server), but I don't expect any support for it in X++, so you would have to use SqlStatement class or deal with it directly on the DB level.

    Another solution would be to ignore case during fetching and do a case-sensitive comparison on the application layer.

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    Martin Dráb 237,948 Most Valuable Professional on at

    Small correction: the class is named "Statement", not "SqlStatement"

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