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Apr 22, 2008

Hi, i have a query that goes like this


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all of them have spanish accents. is there a way to make the "like" value to ignore the spanish characters? (á, é, í, ó, ú, ü, etc)

That is because the user will not always write "Jesús" they will write "Jesus" or they will not write "Adrián" they will write "Adrian"

so is there any way to tell the SQL Server engine to ignore those characters?

thanks!!!

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