Re: [OT] User-JDBC-Realm: User case-sensitiv?

2008-05-17 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gregor, Gregor Schneider wrote: | Sure, there are a lot of possible solutions, however, it would ease up | things if MySQL would behave as expected by the "common programmer". Sorry, but the "common programmer" ought to know that, in spite of SQL's

Re: User-JDBC-Realm: User case-sensitiv?

2008-05-17 Thread Gregor Schneider
Hi Todd, On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 11:23 PM, Boyd, Todd M. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You can use "WHERE x LIKE condition" to perform a case-sensitive search > without modifying the structure of the table(s) involved by using the > BINARY keyword. > well, I could so so - however, I'm talking ab

RE: User-JDBC-Realm: User case-sensitiv?

2008-05-16 Thread Boyd, Todd M.
Gregor, You can use "WHERE x LIKE condition" to perform a case-sensitive search without modifying the structure of the table(s) involved by using the BINARY keyword. "SELECT * FROM `foo` WHERE `bar` LIKE BINARY 'tesT'" will not pull the record "test" or "Test", but only matches the record "tesT".

Re: User-JDBC-Realm: User case-sensitiv?

2008-05-16 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gregor, Gregor Schneider wrote: | thanks a lot, that's the reason why. | | I'm wondering what those guys from MySQL thought when introducing this | "feature"... Try this: ALTER TABLE users ~ MODIFY COLUMN user_name VARCHAR(40) BINARY ; No need t

Re: User-JDBC-Realm: User case-sensitiv?

2008-05-16 Thread Gregor Schneider
Todd, I absolutly disagree: A database is a container holding some peaces of information. Usually, a database is transparent for the programmer: He doesn't need to about the details of the soring-mechanisms, but *what* he has to know is that "fooBar" != "FooBar" - fullstop. if you application n

RE: User-JDBC-Realm: User case-sensitiv?

2008-05-16 Thread Boyd, Todd M.
When you think about how many people would be asking how to make them case-insensitive versus how many need to perform case-sensitive searching, it makes sense to me. Todd Boyd Web Programmer > -Original Message- > From: Gregor Schneider [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 8< snip! > I'm wonder

Re: User-JDBC-Realm: User case-sensitiv?

2008-05-16 Thread Gregor Schneider
Hi Paul. thanks a lot, that's the reason why. I'm wondering what those guys from MySQL thought when introducing this "feature"... Anyways, thanks again! Gregor -- what's puzzlin' you, is the nature of my game gpgp-fp: 79A84FA526807026795E4209D3B3FE028B3170B2 gpgp-key available @ http://pgpkeys

Re: User-JDBC-Realm: User case-sensitiv?

2008-05-16 Thread paul womack
Gregor Schneider wrote: Hi guys, I'm just a bit puzzled, maybe one of you can shed some light: We're running Tomcat 5.5 here having created a JDBC-realm holding our users & their credentials: The DDL of the MySQL-Tables shows like However, we've just discovered that Tomcat doesn't care at all

User-JDBC-Realm: User case-sensitiv?

2008-05-16 Thread Gregor Schneider
Hi guys, I'm just a bit puzzled, maybe one of you can shed some light: We're running Tomcat 5.5 here having created a JDBC-realm holding our users & their credentials: The DDL of the MySQL-Tables shows like users: user_name varchar(40) PRI user_passvarchar(50) user_group int(11