on an old linux running mysql4.0.x, I noticed a simple SQL query
select distinct item from tablename
returned a case insensitive results (e.g. “foo”, “FOO, “Foo” was listed on a different rows).
But how to obtain a unique record “foo” from a select distinct?
Reading this post I was able to obtain a case insensitive result from my “select distinct” SQL query.
# mysqldump dbname > dbname.dump
# mysqladmin drop dbname
# mysqladmin create dbname
# vi dbname.dump
using vi the editor I added the “binary” attribute to the record definition, for instance
create table kludges ( shortdesc varchar(100) BINARY, fulldesc text)
and then
# mysql dbname < dbname.dump