MySQL SELECT DISTINCT should be case sensitive?

Question

How do I make MySQL\'s SELECT DISTINCT case sensitive?

create temporary table X (name varchar(50) NULL);
insert into X values (\'this\'), (\'This\');
         


        

Answer 1

I would rather update the column definition to be case sensitive collision.

Like this:

create table X (name VARCHAR(128) CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_bin NULL);
insert into X values ('this'), ('This'); 

SQLFiddle: http://sqlfiddle.com/#!2/add276/2/0