On Friday 28 November 2003 14.51, Lemasson Sylvain wrote: > Hello, Hi > The first think is that I cannot add a primary constraint on test because > Mysql do not make the difference between 'bla' and 'BLA'. It is case > insensitive. I have the same problem when I do: select * from test where > value='bla'. The select return two lines when just one was expected. The > version of Mysql is 4.1 installed on windows 2000; my my.cnf file is:
Read about column types: http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/Column_types.html: "CHAR values are sorted and compared in case-insensitive fashion according to the default character set unless the BINARY keyword is given." ... "VARCHAR values are sorted and compared in case-insensitive fashion unless the BINARY keyword is given." Think it will clear things up for you. Mike -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
