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Eli Flores, SFDC DevEli Flores, SFDC Dev 

the 18 char ID case-insensitivity a lie?

Hi, I was attempting to demonstrate the case-insensitivity of 18 char ID to my peers and I can't seem to get it to work. 

 

I ran this soql query:

select id from account where ID = '0013000000Hk05sAAB'

 

 

which successfully reports 1 record. 

 

When I try the all lowercase version 

 

select id from account where id = '0013000000hk05saab'

 

 

It reports 0 records. 

 

Is this a bug? A limitation of SOQL? Did I misunderstand the case-insensitive nature of 18 char id? I'm confused why the 2nd one pulls up 0 records. 

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souvik9086souvik9086

https://success.salesforce.com/questionDetail?qid=a1X30000000KJ03EAG

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souvik9086souvik9086

It is case in-sensitive. Check with this

 

select id from account where id = '0013000000Hk05saab'

First one is h and second one is H. 

 

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Eli Flores, SFDC DevEli Flores, SFDC Dev

That too fails with a 0 records match the query.
souvik9086souvik9086

https://success.salesforce.com/questionDetail?qid=a1X30000000KJ03EAG

Check this

 

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Jaideep BarudJaideep Barud
Hi,

I would like to tell you that 18 char record id in Salesforce are just case-safe and are not Case Insensitive in Salesforce.

So when you query like as you did in your example:
  1. select id from account where ID = '0013000000Hk05sAAB' - will result 1 record
  2. select id from account where id = '0013000000hk05saab' - won't result any record
There is no bug in salesforce. Please refer below mentioned link for reference:
https://help.salesforce.com/apex/HTViewSolution?id=000004383

I hope this will help you with your query.

Regards,
Jaideep (JD)