Are SQL Keys case sensitive?

Question

In SQL Server, by default, primary keys are case-insensitive and when you transfer data from Oracle to SQL Server and then try to create the primary key constraints, you may have duplicate key errors.

Is SQL like case sensitive?

LIKE performs case-insensitive substring matches if the collation for the expression and pattern is case-insensitive.

Is primary key case sensitive in MySQL?

yes. ci is case insensitive.

Why is SQL not case sensitive?

SQL keywords are by default set to case insensitive that means that the keywords are allowed to be used in lower or upper case. The names of the tables and columns specification are set to case insensitive on the SQL database server, however, it can be enabled and disabled by configuring the settings in SQL.

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