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

This problem is occurring in this case because of the collation used in the table. You have used utf8_general_ci as collation. If the collation is changed to utf8_general_ci then the searches will not be case sensitive. So, one possible solution is to change the collation.