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converting lowercase to uppercase

  • June 30, 2009 at 11:59 am

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    AmolNaik (6/30/2009)

    Best is to leave the formatting and case conversions at the front end application, should try not to use SQL Server for formatting and case conversion tasks which are easily handled at the application side.

    Rememer RDBMS are designed for data storage and data retrieval as quick as possible.

    Thanks,

    Amol

    Let's add a couple of caveats to that, eh? IF you have an application, then I absolutely agree that's where formatting should be done. But, a database is NOT just a place to store and retrieve data. There are a large number of processes that the GUI could do that should be done in the database, instead. Aggregations and summarizations are a good example of that. Data checking and validation is another example. Even some business rules are more easily and effectively managed by the database and not the application code.

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