> Thanks for instructions. It does work.
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> Is there a way to use created case insensitive collation as database wide default? It would be easier for me not to specify collation for each and every index definition.

http://www.firebirdsql.org/refdocs/langrefupd25-ddl-charset.html

This does not affect existing character fields though.


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> From: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com [mailto:firebird-support@yahoogroups.com]
> Sent: Friday, April 8, 2016 10:36 AM
> To: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: !!***SPAM***!! Re: [firebird-support] Firebird V3RC2 Primary Key question
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> On 7-4-2016 23:01, Ertan Küçükoğlu ertan.kucukoglu@...
> [firebird-support] wrote:
>> Would you be so kind to provide an example SQL which shows how to do
>> primary key with a case insensitive collation?
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> 1. Register the WIN1254_UNICODE collation (it is defined in fbintl.conf,
> but not included by default in Firebird):
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> create collation WIN1254_UNICODE for win1254
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> 2. Derive a case insensitive collation from WIN1254_UNICODE:
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> create collation win1254_ci for win1254 from win1254_unicode case
> insensitive
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> 3. Create table
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> create table win1254test (
> stringkey varchar(30) character set win1254 primary key collate
> win1254_ci
> )
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> 4. Test it:
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> INSERT INTO win1254test(stringkey) VALUES('EK'); -- succeeds
> INSERT INTO win1254test(stringkey) VALUES('ek'); -- fails
> INSERT INTO win1254test(stringkey) VALUES('Ek'); -- fails
> INSERT INTO win1254test(stringkey) VALUES('eK'); -- fails
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> I hope this helps,
> Mark
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