Are table names in MySQL case sensitive?

Question

Are table names in MySQL case sensitive?

On my Windows development machine the code I have is able to query my tables which appear to be all lowercase. When I deploy

Answer 1

It depends upon lower_case_table_names system variable:

show variables where Variable_name='lower_case_table_names'

There are three possible values for this:

• 0 - lettercase specified in the CREATE TABLE or CREATE DATABASE statement. Name comparisons are case sensitive.
• 1 - Table names are stored in lowercase on disk and name comparisons are not case sensitive.
• 2 - lettercase specified in the CREATE TABLE or CREATE DATABASE statement, but MySQL converts them to lowercase on lookup. Name comparisons are not case sensitive.

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