Case insensitive QueryExpression

Question

Is it possible to build a query with a ConditionExpression which is not case sensitive ?

ConditionExpression condition = new ConditionExpression() 
{ 
  AttributeName = "lastname", 
  Operator = ConditionOperator.BeginsWith, 
  Values = new ObservableCollection<object>() { searchName } 
};

In this example I would like the search with searchName to be case insensitive.

Answer 1

I believe that this is a factor of the database collation that was chosen during install of CRM rather than a feature of QueryExpression.

The default during a clean install is Latin1_General_CI_AS. You can check yours by executing the following sql statement:

SELECT DATABASEPROPERTYEX('OrganisationName_MSCRM', 'Collation')