Aryo,
I believe any form of function such as like, upper, lower will cause
mysql to ignore the index.

On Nov 16, 2:08 pm, "Aryo Sanjaya" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Rather than using '=' operator, why don't you use 'like' instead? it's
> case insensitive.
>
> Where p.uid like t.uid
>
> On 11/6/08, tekion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > Folks,
> > I am running into a situation on query using and index field on uid
> > column.  When I run a query using where clause  like "p.upper(uid) =
> > t.upper(uid)", the query seems to do a fullscan of the table.  It
> > seems that Mysql ignore the index when I use upper function in the
> > where clause.  I have tried to create the index  using the upper
> > function like so: "alter table <tablename> add index (upper(uid))",
> > but it seems I can't do this either.
>
> > One of the solution is to alter the uid to upper case as it is being
> > inserted into the tables.  But If one of the table is holding auditing
> > data,: there is a requirement not to alter the uid  (capturing what
> > the user is actually entering), then I can't alter the uid. Does any
> > one have a better solution on how to index the uid on this table so
> > the query would use the index instead of ignoring it due to the use of
> > upper case function? Thanks in advance.
>
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