Hi!
On Sep 11, 2008, at 11:38 AM, Jim Starkey wrote:
Cast is a standard and useful feature for forcing conversions. I
see no purpose for Convert with a single internal character set.
A lot of the "2" + 2 stuff we do automatically, so convert() is less
useful (though I will full acknowledge that some of the auto
conversion is too friendly).
Could somebody say something about the general philosophy for
collations? How do they interact with comparisons?
The only thing that comes to mind is "A" == "a", aka case, also umlaut
vs non-umlaut characters for other languages. So it is not only a
question of sort, but in doing comparison to names.
The "SELECT BINARY a = A" stuff I find questionable. What does it even
mean to sort a BLOB for instance?
Cheers,
-Brian
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