isn't sql case insensitie most of the time?

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On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 2:39 AM, Mike Christensen <[email protected]>wrote:

> I need to lookup a user by Alias, however I need this to be case
> insensitive.  Basically I just need to know if the row exists or not.
> Here's what I'm doing now:
>
> return (User.FindFirst(new
> NHibernate.Criterion.InsensitiveLikeExpression("Alias", alias)) !=
> null);
>
> However, I don't like this because it's not gonna use any indexes.
> I've created an index on LOWER(Alias), thus I want the query generated
> to be:
>
> SELECT COUNT(*) FROM Users WHERE LOWER(Alias) = 'myvalue'; --This will
> be very very fast.
>
> Any ideas on how to generate this query with ActiveRecord?  Thanks!!
>
> Mike
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