How to use SQL Order By statement to sort results case insensitive?

Question

I have a SQLite database that I am trying to sort by Alphabetical order. The problem is, SQLite doesn't seem to consider A=a during sorting, thus I get results like this:

A B C T a b c g

I want to get:

A a b B C c g T

What special SQL thing needs to be done that I don't know about?

SELECT * FROM NOTES ORDER BY title

Answer 1

You can just convert everything to lowercase for the purposes of sorting:

SELECT * FROM NOTES ORDER BY LOWER(title);

If you want to make sure that the uppercase ones still end up ahead of the lowercase ones, just add that as a secondary sort:

SELECT * FROM NOTES ORDER BY LOWER(title), title;

Answer 2

You can also do ORDER BY TITLE COLLATE NOCASE.