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sqlite - How to set Sqlite3 to be case insensitive when string comparing?

I want to select records from sqlite3 database by string matching. But if I use '=' in the where clause, I found that sqlite3 is case sensitive. Can anyone tell me how to use string comparing case-insensitive?

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You can use COLLATE NOCASE in your SELECT query:

SELECT * FROM ... WHERE name = 'someone' COLLATE NOCASE

Additionaly, in SQLite, you can indicate that a column should be case insensitive when you create the table by specifying collate nocase in the column definition (the other options are binary (the default) and rtrim; see here). You can specify collate nocase when you create an index as well. For example:

create table Test
(
  Text_Value  text collate nocase
);

insert into Test values ('A');
insert into Test values ('b');
insert into Test values ('C');

create index Test_Text_Value_Index
  on Test (Text_Value collate nocase);

Expressions involving Test.Text_Value should now be case insensitive. For example:

sqlite> select Text_Value from Test where Text_Value = 'B';
Text_Value      
----------------
b               

sqlite> select Text_Value from Test order by Text_Value;
Text_Value      
----------------
A               
b               
C    

sqlite> select Text_Value from Test order by Text_Value desc;
Text_Value      
----------------
C               
b               
A               

The optimiser can also potentially make use of the index for case-insensitive searching and matching on the column. You can check this using the explain SQL command, e.g.:

sqlite> explain select Text_Value from Test where Text_Value = 'b';
addr              opcode          p1          p2          p3                               
----------------  --------------  ----------  ----------  ---------------------------------
0                 Goto            0           16                                           
1                 Integer         0           0                                            
2                 OpenRead        1           3           keyinfo(1,NOCASE)                
3                 SetNumColumns   1           2                                            
4                 String8         0           0           b                                
5                 IsNull          -1          14                                           
6                 MakeRecord      1           0           a                                
7                 MemStore        0           0                                            
8                 MoveGe          1           14                                           
9                 MemLoad         0           0                                            
10                IdxGE           1           14          +                                
11                Column          1           0                                            
12                Callback        1           0                                            
13                Next            1           9                                            
14                Close           1           0                                            
15                Halt            0           0                                            
16                Transaction     0           0                                            
17                VerifyCookie    0           4                                            
18                Goto            0           1                                            
19                Noop            0           0                                            

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