by default, MySQL does not consider the case of the strings
这不是真的.无论何时在MySQL中创建数据库,数据库/模式都有字符集和排序规则.每个字符集都有一个默认排序规则; see here获取更多信息.
字符集latin1的默认排序规则,即latin1_swedish_ci,恰好不区分大小写.
您可以选择区分大小写的排序规则,例如latin1_general_cs(MySQL grammar):
CREATE SCHEMA IF NOT EXISTS `myschema`
DEFAULT CHARACTER SET latin1
COLLATE latin1_general_cs ;
这对分组和平等等问题有影响.例如,
create table casetable (
id int primary key,
thing varchar(50)
);
select * from casetable;
+----+-------+
| id | thing |
+----+-------+
| 3 | abc |
| 4 | ABC |
| 5 | aBc |
| 6 | abC |
+----+-------+
在区分大小写的数据库中,我们得到:
select thing, count(*) from casetable group by thing;
+-------+----------+
| thing | count(*) |
+-------+----------+
| ABC | 1 |
| aBc | 1 |
| abC | 1 |
| abc | 1 |
+-------+----------+
select * from casetable where thing = "abc";
+----+-------+
| id | thing |
+----+-------+
| 3 | abc |
+----+-------+
在不区分大小写的数据库中,我们得到:
select thing, count(*) from casetable group by thing;
+-------+----------+
| thing | count(*) |
+-------+----------+
| abc | 4 |
+-------+----------+
select * from casetable where thing = "abc";
+----+-------+
| id | thing |
+----+-------+
| 3 | abc |
| 4 | ABC |
| 5 | aBc |
| 6 | abC |
+----+-------+
请注意,您还可以更改排序规则from within a query.例如,在区分大小写的数据库中,我可以这样做
select * from casetable where thing collate latin1_swedish_ci = "abc";
+----+-------+
| id | thing |
+----+-------+
| 3 | abc |
| 4 | ABC |
| 5 | aBc |
| 6 | abC |
+----+-------+