The field is a blob type. I just checked it on a varchar field and it worked OK. -- Chris On Thursday, August 24, 2006, at 01:03 am, Anthony Baratta wrote: > mySQL is not by default case sensitive....there must be something else > going on. > > http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/4.1/en/case-sensitivity.html > > Are you searching a binary field?