Case-insensitive search using Hibernate

Question

I\'m using Hibernate for ORM of my Java app to an Oracle database (not that the database vendor matters, we may switch to another database one day), and I want to retrieve objec

Answer 1

If you use Spring's HibernateTemplate to interact with Hibernate, here is how you would do a case insensitive search on a user's email address:

getHibernateTemplate().find("from User where upper(email)=?", emailAddr.toUpperCase());