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#9821 Bug or Collation Issue?

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Latest post by nicholas on Wednesday, 06 April 2011 06:42 CDT

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Hi

I set my WAF to manage Global Blocking and I received this debug when users login the front end - see below.

I was surprised to find an upper case being used in the table name.

I corrected it by renaming the xxxx_ip2nationcountries table with an uppercase 'C' to match the table name in the SQL. I am using amazon RDS not a local MySQL, it has tables with a collation of latin1_swedish_ci. I think RDS tables are case sensitive, is this because of the collation? If I change the collation will this allow non-case sensitive SQL statements, what should I change it to (for a basic GB-english site)?

500 - JDatabaseMySQL::query: 1146 - Table 'bitnami_joomla.xxxx_ip2nationCountries' doesn't exist SQL=SELECT i.country FROM xxxx_ip2nationCountries c, xxxx_ip2nation i WHERE i.ip < INET_ATON("my.ip.address") AND c.code = i.country ORDER BY i.ip DESC LIMIT 0,1

nicholas
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RDS, just like any Linux-based MySQL installation, is case sensitive. This comes from the fact that MySQL merely stores the tables as files on the disk and Linux, unlike Windows, has case-sensitive filenames.

That said, the query you are having a problem with has nothing to do with Admin Tools. That's another plugin causing this issue. Admin Tools uses its own copy of GeoCache Lite which doesn't use any MySQL database tables at all. Do note that ALL of the Admin Tools tables start with jos_admintools, where jos_ is your site's prefix.

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