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STARTS_WITH IGNORE CASE predicate

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The STARTS_WITH IGNORE CASE predicate is a special case of the STARTS_WITH predicate, where the operand case is ignored.

Dialect support

This example using jOOQ:

BOOK.TITLE.startsWithIgnoreCase("abc")

Translates to the following dialect specific expressions:

ASE

lower(BOOK.TITLE) LIKE (str_replace(
  str_replace(
    str_replace(
      lower('abc'),
      '!',
      '!!'
    ),
    '%',
    '!%'
  ),
  '_',
  '!_'
) || '%') ESCAPE '!'

Aurora MySQL, MariaDB, MySQL

lower(BOOK.TITLE) LIKE concat(
  replace(
    replace(
      replace(
        lower('abc'),
        '!',
        '!!'
      ),
      '%',
      '!%'
    ),
    '_',
    '!_'
  ),
  '%'
) ESCAPE '!'

Aurora Postgres, CockroachDB, Firebird, H2, HSQLDB, Hana, Informix, Oracle, Postgres, SQLite, Sybase, Vertica

lower(BOOK.TITLE) LIKE (replace(
  replace(
    replace(
      lower('abc'),
      '!',
      '!!'
    ),
    '%',
    '!%'
  ),
  '_',
  '!_'
) || '%') ESCAPE '!'

BigQuery

strpos(lower(BOOK.TITLE), lower('abc')) = 1

ClickHouse

startsWith(
  lower(BOOK.TITLE),
  lower('abc')
)

Databricks

startswith(
  lower(BOOK.TITLE),
  lower('abc')
)

DB2

lower(BOOK.TITLE) LIKE cast((replace(
  replace(
    replace(
      lower('abc'),
      '!',
      '!!'
    ),
    '%',
    '!%'
  ),
  '_',
  '!_'
) || '%') AS VARCHAR(4000)) ESCAPE '!'

DuckDB, Spanner, Trino

starts_with(
  lower(BOOK.TITLE),
  lower('abc')
)

SQLDataWarehouse

charindex(lower('abc'), lower(BOOK.TITLE)) = 1

SQLServer

lower(BOOK.TITLE) LIKE (replace(
  replace(
    replace(
      lower('abc'),
      '!',
      '!!'
    ),
    '%',
    '!%'
  ),
  '_',
  '!_'
) + '%') ESCAPE '!'

Access, Exasol, MemSQL, Redshift, Snowflake, Teradata, YugabyteDB

/* UNSUPPORTED */
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