[ale] MySQL case-sensitivity

George Carless kafka at antichri.st
Tue Oct 26 14:28:29 EDT 2004


On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 02:06:45PM -0400, David Corbin wrote:
> I've discovered, that MYSQL on Linux is case-sensitive for table names, and it 
> is not for Windows.  Undoubtably, this is because of the underlying file 
> system.  Right or wrong, we've adopted a standard of ALL UPPER CASE for table 
> names.  Unfortunately, I found out that mysqldump seems to generate 
> everything with lowercase names, even on Windows.
> 
> Is anyone aware of any switches that might help control this cases-sensitivty 
> or the dump default?

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/Name_case_sensitivity.html

--George



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