the way I do it is with http://www.ytztech.com product SQL_AL.PHP which has a switch that will say all values are upper or lower. You can also create a simple wrapper function that will do the lower conversion. - Paul -----Original Message----- From: William Cheung [mailto:william@xxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2004 2:27 PM To: php-db@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Oracle and upper case field name Hi, When Oracle returns the result set, the field names are all in upper case. However, I have an application that needs to work on both MSSQL and Oracle. I don't want to keep 2 copies. One has upper case field names and the other lower case. How could I make PHP or ADODB to work with lower case field names even the result set is upper case? William Cheung <mailto:william@xxxxxxxxxxxx> B.Sc, MCSE, MCDBA Databyte Corp. <http://www.databyte.com/> --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.567 / Virus Database: 358 - Release Date: 1/24/2004