From: Martijn Tonies
Date: May 19 2006 3:46pm
Subject: Re: how to default column value to lower( )
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> I have column and I want to make sure the db is always making sure the
value
> that gets input into this VARCHAR() column is always lowercase;
>
> Is there a way to set the value of a column within a table to
automatically
> be lowercase. I know how to use the LOWER() function when performing
queries
> but is there a way to define LOWER( ) within the definition of the table
> column itself without having the application specify LOWER( ) to any value
> passed to this column or if a record had to be manually input and the
admin
> forgot to make sure all the characters were lowercase.

If you're using MySQL 5, you could do this with a trigger.

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