Tag: Mysql use of binary

How to use MySQL for case sensitive string comparison

By default MYSQL character set and collation are latin1 and latin1_swedish_ci, so non-binary string comparisons are case insensitive. This means that if you search with col_name LIKE ‘a%’, you get all column values that start with A or a. To make this search as case sensitive, make sure that one of the operands has a …

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