Re: LIKE Statement

2012-05-14 Thread John Omernik
Well the link provided isn't really about what I originally asked about. I have not come across a SQL implementation (Postgres, MySQL, or MSSQL are the ones I have experience in) where LIKE was "by default" case sensitive with wildcards. That being said, I'm not the type to based my assertions on

Re: LIKE Statement

2012-05-14 Thread Keith Wiley
Thanks for the followup. Keith Wiley kwi...@keithwiley.com keithwiley.commusic.keithwiley.com "I used to be with it, but then they changed what it was. Now, what I'm with isn't it, and what's it seems we

Re: LIKE Statement

2012-05-14 Thread Edward Capriolo
By saying "OTHER DATABASES" you are implying that all other databases agree on implementation. I could not find the SQL official spec but anecdotally it seems this is not the case. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/153944/is-sql-syntax-case-sensitive With hive you have like and rlike to chose f

Re: LIKE Statement

2012-05-14 Thread Keith Wiley
On Apr 4, 2012, at 06:40 , John Omernik wrote: > I think the like statement should be changed to be case-insensitive to match > it's function in other DBMS Thoughts? Out of curiosity, was there any activity on this issue? I see John's original post in the archives (~5wks ago) with no followup