On Apr 5, 2011, at 10:19 PM, Kernel Panic wrote:

> On 6 April 2011 02:37, Dan Langille <dan AT langille DOT org> wrote:
>> 
>> On Apr 5, 2011, at 9:31 PM, Kernel Panic wrote:
>> 
>>> Hello everyone,
>>> 
>>> Whilst trying to find a way of doing a case-insensitive search for
>>> file, I found previous posts on the mailing lists that instructed me
>>> to use the sqlquery function in bacula. As a test I wanted to search
>>> for files with zfs in their name and then with ZFS in the name. After
>>> starting up bconsole and entering sqlquery mode I did the following:
>>> 
>>> USE bacula;
>>> SELECT * FROM Filename WHERE name LIKE '%ZFS%';
>>> SELECT * FROM Filename WHERE name LIKE '%zfs%';
>>> 
>>> Although the commands worked, they only returned case-sensitive
>>> matches, despite MySQL's documentation stating that pattern matching
>>> is case-insensitive by default:
>>> http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/pattern-matching.html
>>> 
>>> Can anyone help me?
>> 
>> Have you tried ilike instead of like?  It is available on PostgreSQL.  I 
>> don't know about MySQL.
>> 
>> Consider also:
>> 
>> SELECT * FROM Filename where lower(name) LIKE %zfs%;
> 
> Unfortunately ilike/ILIKE do not seem to be valid operators in MySQL.
> The lower(name) doesn't cause a problem but the results are still
> case-sensitive

Think wider.

It is not case insensitive.  It is all lower case. You are comparing lower case 
to lower case.

Does that help?
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