Question

SQLite statement 'abc' LIKE 'ABCd' will return true. So my question is how to make an SQLite query that will return only exact record matches for a particular query.

Answer 1

The LIKE operator has two modes that can be set by a pragma. The default mode is for LIKE comparisons to be insensitive to differences of case for latin1 characters. Thus, by default, the following expression is true:

  'a' LIKE 'A'

But if the case_sensitive_like pragma is enabled as follows:

  PRAGMA case_sensitive_like=ON;

Then the LIKE operator pays attention to case and the example above would evaluate to false.