Cannot import from lowercase database in mySQL

Question

Hi,
I am using BODI 11.7.3.2, with a mySQL 5.0 database as a source.
Most of my databases are in uppercase, and I have never had a problem with it, but today I wanted to import tables from a new database, called dgwh, lowercase, and it gave an error which included a reference to the database 'DGWH' (uppercase). Since our installation of mySQL is case-sensitive, this did not work.
Looking for a solution I stumbled upon the following:
I created the datastore for the new database today, but another datastore on the same database server linking to a different database was created using version 11.5, and upgraded to 11.7.3.2. Using this alternative datastore, I could import the table without any problems!
Which led me to exporting both datastores and doing a compare. And yes, there was a difference: the line
"case_sensitive" = 'yes',
was included in the datastore imported from 11.5, but not at all present in the newly created datastore.
I figure that line is the one causing my problem. However, I don't see an option in my datastore to set any parameter concerning case-sensitivity. Is that option available?
Cheers
Tako Molanus

Answer 1

Manoj:
I was using ODBC as the database type, but I tried again with both mySQL (which I don't believe was there in version 11.5, otherwise we would have probably used it before) and ODBC, but without luck, the problems remains. In both cases I can't find an indicator saying anything about using upper- or lowercase names, so I could not try that part of your suggestion. But maybe I am missing something, where can I find that?
Still, it is strange that I am able to do this from the ATL, but not from the client.
We saw something similar in version 11.5: it was not possible to import a table from a different mySQL database than the one we logged in to in the datastore (we had a datastore for database STG, but wanted to look at a table from database DWH, so we wanted something like STG.DWH.DWHTable). If we changed this in the ATL however, it was no problem.
How come the ATl supports more than the client?
Hai:
Thanks for the teaser
I will suggest moving to version 12, but it is not my decision to make....
Edited by: Tako Molanus on Oct 28, 2008 8:06 AM