Well, the title explains it well...
I'm using OCI to explore a Oracle database in PHP.
The trouble is that the database is case sensitive, so... when I execute a sentence like
SELECT COUNT(username) count, username FROM transactions WHERE username IS NOT NULL GROUP BY username
returns an array like this
COUNT USERNAME
213 EMG_COTORA
31 EMG_cotora
123 emg_cotora
This because the database is case sensitive, so... How do I force case insensitive without modifying the database? (I haven't write permission)
I assume that in your actual query you have a GROUP BY
clause. You would just need to group by the UPPER(username)
SELECT upper(username), count(*) cnt
FROM transactions
WHERE username IS NOT NULL
GROUP BY upper(username)
You could also, of course, SELECT
and GROUP BY
lower(username)
or initcap(username)
or any other function that converts the different username values into a single value.