FreeTDS Development Group

["Lowden, James K" <LowdenJK AT bernstein.com>]

> From: Thompson, Bill D (London) [mailto:ThompBil AT exchange.uk.ml.com]
> Sent: August 27, 2002 5:45 PM
> 
> At the risk of prolonging this debate further than it 
> deserves, I believe
> the default behaviour of SQL 2000 is case insensitive.

So it is.  Case sensitivity depends on the sort order chosen at installation
time.  How weird is that?  

>From Books Online for SQL Server 7.0, under Installation Options, Sort Order
<quote>
Important: If you install a case-sensitive sort order, all entries are
case-sensitive, including object names. This SELECT statement against a
table named Customers is successful on a server with a case-insensitive sort
order.

SELECT * FROM CUSTOMERS

The same statement fails on a server with a case-sensitive sort order.

[next page...]

        Dictionary Order, Case-insensitive
                This is the default sort order.

</quote>

I knew there were other sort orders, but not that they affected the behavior
of object names.  Live and learn, I suppose.  

--jkl



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