Oops! I should've checked previous posts carefully. I saw that you
have a feature request in that sense... Can I help? I'd really like to
see this implemented.

Pedro.

On Apr 21, 2:03 am, pedrobl <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> First thing, the system: Coldfusion MX7, Oracle 10g, transfer 1.1. I
> need searches not to be case sensitive. I've tried to walk around this
> issue with different approaches, but each had its problems:
>
> - Changing the NLS settings in oracle. The problem: the data model
> needs too many extra indices. Also, it turns out that setting the
> session parameters to oracle's jdbc connection can have unexpected
> results.
> - Creating views in oracle with extra lower(columns) and extra
> properties in their respective transfer objects. The problem: the data
> model gets messy soon.
>
> I thought that it may be easier using transfer to solve the issue. The
> idea is that, when translating from TQL to SQL using the LIKE
> function, the column could be translated to 'LOWER(column_name)',
> instead of just 'column_name', and searching for lcase('%query%'),
> instead of just '%query%'.
>
> I've had a look at transfer's source code, as well as ANTLR and a hint
> as to where to look would be greatly appreciated... or any other ideas
> for that matter. Could I modify "conditionBasicClause" and the "like"
> "OPERATOR" in the Tql.g file? I guess I probably should modify the SQL
> part, not the TQL part...
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Pedro.

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