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- From: jordan@warped.pnl.gov (Randy Jordan)
- Newsgroups: comp.databases.sybase
- Subject: Re: Using Views for data presentation
- Keywords: name, spelling
- Message-ID: <1993Jan5.180729.14793@oracle.pnl.gov>
- Date: 5 Jan 93 18:07:29 GMT
- Article-I.D.: oracle.1993Jan5.180729.14793
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- In article <29829@ursa.bear.com>, solar@fsrg.fsrg.bear.com (William del Solar) writes:
- |>Path: pnl-oracle!ogicse!uwm.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!cs.utexas.edu!qt.cs.utexas.edu!yale.edu!ira.uka.de!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!ursa!fsrg!solar
- |>From: solar@fsrg.fsrg.bear.com (William del Solar)
- |>Newsgroups: comp.databases.sybase
- |>Subject: Re: Using Views for data presentation
- |>Keywords: name, spelling
- |>Message-ID: <29829@ursa.bear.com>
- |>Date: Mon, 4 Jan 93 14:53:31 PST
- |>Article-I.D.: ursa.29829
- |>References: <92356.101548IDAZS@ASUACAD.BITNET> <wolfgang.726176551@sfu.ca>
- |>Sender: news@bear.com
- |>Organization: Bear Stearns & Company, New York, NY
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- |>
- |>In article <wolfgang.726176551@sfu.ca> wolfgang@fraser.sfu.ca (Wolfgang Richter) writes:
- |>><IDAZS@ASUACAD.BITNET> writes:
- |>
- |>>>First and last names are stored in separate fields in upper
- |>>>case. We have been partially successful in combining them to display
- |>>>in upper-lower case, using "substring" and "rtrim" functions. Names
- |>>>that have spaces or dashes, like "James Mc donald" or
- |>>>"Carol Terry-peplow" have been a problem....
- |>
- |>By storing names in upper case only, you are losing information that
- |>must later be either derived or even manufactured:
- |>
- |>How will you correctly spell names such as da Vinci, van Beethoven,
- |>ter Horst, von Krupp, della Robbia, and del Solar?
- |>
- |>If the spelling has been Americanized, how will you correctly spell
- |>names such as DellAquila, Deluca, DeSaro, or Delvalle? From the last
- |>four names, it is not possible to derive a rule to spell the name correctly.
- |>
- |>The only solution that will satisfy both the folks who have Americanized
- |>the spelling of their names and those who haven't is to store names in
- |>both upper an lower case.
- |>
- |>Wm del Solar
- |>____________________________________________________________________________
- |>My opinions are not my employer's opinions: I do not speak for my employer.
- |>
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- What your are talking about is "Case-insensitive" sort order.
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- It's what we use... and even though the BOOK states that you take
- a performance hit for using it we haven't felt it, and the User-
- friendly nature is more than usfull.
-
- RJ
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