Moestl,
Tuesday, October 08, 2002, 10:42:09 AM, you wrote:

MW> When one is doing a GRANT statement at the database level the database name is 
stored in mysql.db in lowercase letters only, regardless of the upper/lowercase 
characters used for the database
MW> name at the GRANT statement.

MW> Example:
MW> GRANT SELECT ON SYSMON.* TO theUser@%
MW> results in having stored the database name "SYSMON" as "sysmon" at mysql.db, 
column db.

MW> GRANT SELECT ON SysMon.* TO theUser@% will grant the privilege to the same 
database "sysmon" as the statement above. On a Unix plattform there can be two 
different databases "SYSMON" and "SysMon"!

MW> Furthermore, if one manually changes the database name back to the original name - 
"SYSMON" - at the column mentioned above and re-run the statement there is a second 
entry generated in mysql.db:
MW> the old one having "SYSMON" and the new one having "sysmon" as database name.

MW> As the database name is case-sensitive in Unix systems this is critical.

MW> I'm running on Win XP, and found this behavior in mysql-MAX NT versions 4.0.2 to 
4.0.4.

MW> Is this a Bug or intended behaviour?

It's not a bug.
Seems, you start MySQL server with lower_case_table_names=1. In this
case all table/database names will be convert to lower case
 (SYSMON->sysmon, SySMon->sysmon):
        http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/Name_case_sensitivity.html


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