ORACLE 11g case insensitive by default

Question

I found in this article, that since ORACLE 10g, there is a way to make a particular connection-session compare strings case-insensitive, without needing any crazy SQL functi

Answer 1

I found the same performance issue with inserts and nls in 11g r2! Luckily for me the performance hit was not significant enough requiring an app change.

If you can do without binary_ci for the INSERT, then I would do an alter session just before the insert and afterwards, so you don't have to drop the trigger