How to use SQL Order By statement to sort results case insensitive?

Question

I have a SQLite database that I am trying to sort by Alphabetical order. The problem is, SQLite doesn't seem to consider A=a during sorting, thus I get results like this:

ABCT abcg

I want to get:

A ab BC cg T

What special SQL thing needs to be done that I don't know about?

SELECT * FROM NOTES ORDER BY title

Answer 1

You can also do ORDER BY TITLE COLLATE NOCASE .

Edit: If you need to specify ASC or DESC , add this after NOCASE like

ORDER BY TITLE COLLATE NOCASE ASC

or

ORDER BY TITLE COLLATE NOCASE DESC

Answer 2

You can just convert everything to lowercase for the purposes of sorting:

SELECT * FROM NOTES ORDER BY LOWER(title);

If you want to make sure that the uppercase ones still end up ahead of the lowercase ones, just add that as a secondary sort:

SELECT * FROM NOTES ORDER BY LOWER(title), title;

Answer 3

SELECT * FROM NOTES ORDER BY UPPER(title)