Is there a way to force case sensitivity in MySQL / Rails for a single find?

Question

I\'m doing some searching of tags, and some users like \"cat\" while others like \"Cat\" Go figure...

Anyways, is there a way to force a particular find to be case sens

Answer 1

You can also do a case-sensitive search without changing your column properties.

SELECT * FROM mytable WHERE myfield='Value' 

This query matches:

• Value
• value
• VALUE
• vAlUe
• and so on

While...

SELECT * FROM mytable WHERE BINARY myfield='Value'

Matches only:

• Value