Case sensitive statement in the select-statement

Question

Hi All,
i have a table in the abap-dictionary filled with names...when i try to select them with the select-statement with condition:
table-name_column like 'some_name'
I have encountered some problems...the inquiry is case-sensitive. What i want to do is to read the value from the abap-dictionary table uppercase or lowercase and compare it with the needed value also translated in uppercase or lowercase.
The only idea i have is to select all values of the dictionary table into an internal table and to translate the values there in uppercase or lowercase and then to loop trough it. But this approach would cost a lot of performance.
Do someone has an other proposal?

Answer 1

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Select statement
It would be difficult , because it is based on how data is stored in the data base , now consider the scenario of the system i am using , we can material description as 'test' or 'TEST' , 'Test' .
If in your system there are only stored in either caps or small the you can perform the select twice .
But i myself dont find it to be such a good solution , but you can give it a try
There is one more solution specific to material description ,and that is in the table MAKT there is a field MAKTG , which stored the description in uppercase , so for this you can first convert the description to uppercase and then perform select on this field