MySQL has an annoying habit of lowercasing table names under Windows with the default installation.
The suggested solution for this is to set lower_case_table_names=2 under the [mysqld] section in my.ini.
This works well, but with one issue. You can not change this after you install MySQL, and this is NOT the the default under Windows on a new install, and many times installs do not you allow you to edit my.ini before the server is initialized.
Here is how to change the lower_case_table_names on an existing MySQL install under Windows:
- First, backup all databases you which to save with a standard MySQL backup.
- Shut down MySQL Server.
- Delete data directory (this is why you need the backups) generally in data directory of install.
- Edit your my.ini file to include lower_case_table_names=2 under the [mysqld]
- create a mysql-init.txt file with the following content (this may not be needed, but seems to work
- ALTER USER 'root'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'whatEverPasswordYouWant';
- run the following command from the install directory (note quotes and double \ are recommended in example paths):
bin\mysqld --defaults-file="c:\\wamp64\\bin\\mysql\\mysql8.0.25\\my.ini" --initialize --init-file="c:\\wamp64\\bin\\mysql\\mysql8.0.25\\mysql-init.txt" --console
This will dump the results of the command to the console (instead of the log file) so you can see the results instantly.
Now restart MySQL as a service and restore your databases. Note you may want to change table case names, as they should now be preserved correctly.