Micha: "Tablenames are treated case-sensitive on *nix systems, not on windows."
Check out:
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/Name_case_sensitivity.html
"In MySQL, databases correspond to directories within the data directory. Tables within a database correspond to at least one file within the database directory (and possibly more, depending on the storage engine). Consequently, the case sensitivity of the underlying operating system determines the case sensitivity of database and table names. This means database and table names are not case sensitive in Windows, and case sensitive in most varieties of Unix. One notable exception is Mac OS X, which is Unix-based but uses a default filesystem type (HFS+) that is not case sensitive. However, Mac OS X also supports UFS volumes, which are case sensitive just as on any Unix."
And further on:
"Column names, index names, and column aliases are not case sensitive on any platform."
"How table and database names are stored on disk and used in MySQL is defined by the lower_case_table_names system variable, which you can set when starting mysqld. lower_case_table_names can take one of the following values:
0 Table and database names are stored on disk using the lettercase specified in the CREATE TABLE or CREATE DATABASE statement. Name comparisons are case sensitive. This is the default on Unix systems. Note that if you force this to 0 with --lower-case-table-names=0 on a case-insensitive filesystem and access MyISAM tablenames using different lettercases, this may lead to index corruption.
1 Table names are stored in lowercase on disk and name comparisons are not case sensitive. MySQL converts all table names to lowercase on storage and lookup. This behavior also applies to database names as of MySQL 4.0.2, and to table aliases as of 4.1.1. This value is the default on Windows and Mac OS X systems.
2 Table and database names are stored on disk using the lettercase specified in the CREATE TABLE or CREATE DATABASE statement, but MySQL converts them to lowercase on lookup. Name comparisons are not case sensitive. Note: This works only on filesystems that are not case sensitive! InnoDB table names are stored in lowercase, as for lower_case_table_names=1. Setting lower_case_table_names to 2 can be done as of MySQL 4.0.18."
Just wanted to make sure I was understood correctly.
.Peter
MaePub
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