This is how I'd do it in SQL2K...
If all you wanted was to convert the db colum to uppercase you'd compare..
where password = upper(colPwd)
If you wanted to match the case between user input and db column and your db is default case insensitive you could use "collate"...
where password = colPwd collate Latin1_General_CS_AI
**ASCII stupid question, get a stupid ANSI !!!**