1st annoyance of MySQL

[Man-wai CHANG]

By default, it's case-insensitive. You need specify the exact COLLATE
during CREATE TABLE to guarantee a case-sensitive search in the future
queries.

I can't believe that a data storage engine would use such a default. Not
in xBase, nor M$ $QL.

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