>>Thank you, Walter.
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>>I don't change codepage used for my database. But I thought that in case the DBA changes it, I would use UPPER(). How likely/typical is for a DBA to change this?
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>I would fire a DBA over that.
>You can't comfortably change that when a database is in production. It almost certainly would screw up a lot of things (like functions and stored procedures) if you did.
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>Walter,
Thank you. I will remove the UPPER() (slowly :) from my SP.
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