Database.CaseSensitive Property

Gets a Boolean property value that specifies whether uppercase letters and lowercase letters are evaluated as equal.

Namespace: Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo
Assembly: Microsoft.SqlServer.Smo (in microsoft.sqlserver.smo.dll)

Syntax

'Declaration
Public ReadOnly Property CaseSensitive As Boolean
public bool CaseSensitive { get; }
public:
property bool CaseSensitive {
    bool get ();
}
/** @property */
public boolean get_CaseSensitive ()
public function get CaseSensitive () : boolean

Property Value

A Boolean value that specifies whether uppercase letters and lowercase letters are evaluated as equal. If True, uppercase and lowercase are not evaluated as equal. If False (default), uppercase and lowercase are evaluated as equal.

Remarks

Updated text:17 July 2006

This property specifies whether the collation associated with the database is case sensitive.

This namespace, class, or member is supported only in version 2.0 of the Microsoft .NET Framework.

Example

The CaseSensitive property is a Boolean property that will return True or False in the following code:

'Connect to the local, default instance of SQL Server.
Dim srv As Server
srv = New Server

'Reference the AdventureWorks database.
Dim db As Database
db = srv.Databases("AdventureWorks")

'Display the case sensitivity of the database.
Console.WriteLine("The database is case sensitive = " + _
db.CaseSensitive.ToString)

Thread Safety

Any public static (Shared in Microsoft Visual Basic) members of this type are thread safe. Any instance members are not guaranteed to be thread safe.

Platforms

Development Platforms

For a list of the supported platforms, see Hardware and Software Requirements for Installing SQL Server 2005.

Target Platforms

For a list of the supported platforms, see Hardware and Software Requirements for Installing SQL Server 2005.

See Also

Reference

Database Class
Database Members
Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo Namespace

Other Resources

How to: Create, Alter, and Remove a Database in Visual Basic .NET
Creating, Altering, and Removing Databases
CREATE DATABASE (Transact-SQL)

Change History

Release

History

17 July 2006

Changed content:
  • Added text to the Remarks section.

  • Added code to the Example section.