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Re: finding caseless in memos

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From: Ken Chan
Date: Wed, 27 May 1998 00:00
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hirschv at mindspring dot com (Ken Mayer [TeamB]) wrote:
> You can't, as far as I can tell. UPPER() will not work with a memo,
> because there is no known limit to the size of the memo itself ... 

The SQL UPPER() function does not work on blob/memo fields.

The dBASE UPPER() function does work on memo fields -- it takes the 
string contents, as long as it does not exceed the max string limit.

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//Ken@Inprise
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Date: 1998/05/27
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