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

The usual approach to ignoring case is to convert both the database values and the input value to upper or lower case - the resultant sql would have something like

select f.name from f where TO_UPPER(f.name) like '%FRAN%'

In hibernate criteria restrictions.like(...).ignoreCase()

I'm more familiar with Nhibernate so the syntax might not be 100% accurate

for some more info see pro hibernate 3 extract and hibernate docs 15.2. Narrowing the result set