Make mysql case sensitive?

Question

I wrote

select * from mytable

In my ASP.net app on Windows it works fine. On Linux it complains I used mytable instead of MyTable . How do I set MySQL on Windows to be case sensitive or set Linux to be case insensitive when dealing with table names?

Answer 1

See 8.2.2. Identifier Case Sensitivity in the mySQL manual.

Short version: Use the lower_case_table_names system variable to achieve case insensitivity on Linux/Unix.

Answer 2

There is a setting for this. See this link: http://www.parkroad.co.za/blog/2007/02/07/mysql-case-sensitivity-of-table-names-between-windows-and-linux-systems

Here's the important part: ...you can look for the setting: lower_case_table_names in your my.ini file, found in or around: C:\\Program Files\\MySQL\\MySQL Server 4.1, depending on which version you are running. If you don't find the setting, you can just add it to the end of the my.ini file, as I did, like so:

lower_case_table_names=0

Dan