Like Case Sensitive in MySQL

Question

I have a MySQL query:

SELECT concat_ws(title,description) as concatenated HAVING concatenated LIKE \'%SearchTerm%\';

And my table is encode

Answer 1

Just for completion, in case it helps:

As stated on https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/case-sensitivity.html, for default character sets, nonbinary string comparisons are case insensitive by default.

Therefore, an easy way to perform case-insensitive comparisons is to cast the field to CHAR, VARCHAR or TEXT type.

Here is an example with a check against a single field:

SELECT * FROM table1 WHERE CAST(`field1` AS CHAR) LIKE '%needle%';

Answer 2

In this method, you do not have to select the searched field:

SELECT table.id 
FROM table
WHERE LOWER(table.aTextField) LIKE LOWER('%SearchAnything%')