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cogitovn
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Posted - 04/18/2008 :  12:05:29  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
I design a table with a column in ntext data. I want to search on this field without differentiate between low case and super case.
For example:

select Lower(Content) from Book

Error is: "Argument data type ntext is invalid for argument 1 of lower function."

How can I convert case with ntext?

visakh16
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Posted - 04/18/2008 :  13:57:59  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Have a look at UPDATETEXT() & TEXTPTR() functions.
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chandan_joshi80
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India
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Posted - 04/19/2008 :  07:34:13  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
declare @t table (RequestId int, Dept int, ADate NTEXT)
insert @t
select 1001, 1, 'AMIT'
union all select 1001, 2, 'SUMTI'
union all select 1001, 1, 'NEHA'

SELECT LOWER(CAST (ADATE AS VARCHAR(10))) FROM @t

LOWER CASE TAKES EXPRESSION THAT implicitly convertible to varchar,SO YOU NEED TO CAST EXPLICITLY

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TG
Flowing Fount of Yak Knowledge

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Posted - 04/19/2008 :  08:40:28  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Your nText column will may have values that excede your varchar limit.

Depends on your collation as to whether or not string comparisons are case sensitive. You can always override the default collation in the query itself:

use northwind

--case insensitive
select notes from employees where notes like '%English%' COLLATE Latin1_General_CI_AS

--case sensitive
select notes from employees where notes like '%english%' COLLATE Latin1_General_CS_AS


Be One with the Optimizer
TG
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