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 sensitive? Such as:

Tag.find(:some-special-option-here) 

Any ideas?

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