On 8/22/2013 8:36 AM, Simon Slavin wrote:
Collation 'muchStronger':
If a = b return 0, else ...
If b is 'the hulk' return -1, else ...
If a is 'the hulk' return 1, else ...
return 0
(translation: people are roughly as strong as one-another, except for The Hulk
who is stronger than everyone except himself)
This is a legitimate collation under SQLite rules, but you cannot apply it
without knowing both of the values.
You can, actually: hulkify(x) := (case when x = 'the hulk' then 'B' else
'A' end) . With such a function, "a = b collate muchStronger" is
equivalent to "hulkify(a) = hulkify(b) collate BINARY". In other words,
hulkify(x) is to muchStronger what upper(x) is to NOCASE.
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Igor Tandetnik
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