Re: [firebird-support] Computed index for case insensitive queries

2014-09-03 Thread Caroline Beltran caroline.d.belt...@gmail.com [firebird-support]
Joel, Although I would like to use UTF-8, my application uses several functions that only work with single byte ASCII characters. Sorry for responding so late, my group messages are going into the spam folder for some reason. On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 11:16 AM, Joel do Prado Junior

Re: [firebird-support] Computed index for case insensitive queries

2014-09-01 Thread Joel do Prado Junior big.rid.lis...@gmail.com [firebird-support]
Qual a versão do firebird você está usando ? Porque não usa utf-8 ? Em 25/08/2014 13:07, Caroline Beltran caroline.d.belt...@gmail.com [firebird-support] escreveu: Alexandre, thank you for suggesting! I am thinking of using the ISO8859_1 characterset and ES_ES_CI_AI collation. Since I

Re: [firebird-support] Computed index for case insensitive queries

2014-08-25 Thread Alexandre Benson Smith ibl...@thorsoftware.com.br [firebird-support]
Em 25/8/2014 00:59, Caroline Beltran caroline.d.belt...@gmail.com [firebird-support] escreveu: Mark, thank you for responding. I ended up downloading FlameRobin and it does show computed indexes in the 'Index' tab as well as in the DDL, i.e.: CREATE INDEX IDX_FNAME ON PEOPLE COMPUTED BY

Re: [firebird-support] Computed index for case insensitive queries

2014-08-25 Thread Caroline Beltran caroline.d.belt...@gmail.com [firebird-support]
Alexandre, thank you for suggesting! I am thinking of using the ISO8859_1 characterset and ES_ES_CI_AI collation. Since I need support for English and Spanish, would this collation be the best option for case/accent insensitive searching? Thanks Again!

Re: [firebird-support] Computed index for case insensitive queries

2014-08-24 Thread Caroline Beltran caroline.d.belt...@gmail.com [firebird-support]
Mark, thank you for responding. I ended up downloading FlameRobin and it does show computed indexes in the 'Index' tab as well as in the DDL, i.e.: CREATE INDEX IDX_FNAME ON PEOPLE COMPUTED BY (lower(fname)); P.S. I found your response in my Google 'Sent' folder, it never made it into my inbox,

[firebird-support] Computed index for case insensitive queries

2014-08-22 Thread Caroline Beltran caroline.d.belt...@gmail.com [firebird-support]
I created the following computed index: CREATE INDEX IDX_FNAME ON PEOPLE COMPUTED BY (lower(fname)) This works fine and instead of traversing the entire table when performing a case insensitive query, an 'index read' for matching records is performed. The question I have is that the database

Re: [firebird-support] Computed index for case insensitive queries

2014-08-22 Thread Mark Rotteveel m...@lawinegevaar.nl [firebird-support]
On Fri, 22 Aug 2014 01:18:17 -0500, Caroline Beltran caroline.d.belt...@gmail.com [firebird-support] firebird-support@yahoogroups.com wrote: I created the following computed index: CREATE INDEX IDX_FNAME ON PEOPLE COMPUTED BY (lower(fname)) This works fine and instead of traversing the entire