Case-sensitive WHERE UPass='PassWoRD'

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A Ratcliffe

I've run into a fairly crazy situation, and I hope someone can help. On a
web-design with an Access database behind the scenes, I have a login page,
where I accept the User name and Password, and on postback, I run a query
against the UserInfo table to validate the login.

User names and passwords are to be case-sensitive.

Table Structure:
Id Autonumber (PK)
UName Text (16) (Indexed, no duplicates, required, no zero length)
UPass Text(16) (required, No zero length)

(How do I view the CREATE SQL for a table in Access btw?)

Unfortunately, if for example I have:-
Id 1
UName ARatcliffe
UPass: PassWOrD

in the table, when I execute:-

SELECT Id, UName, UPass
FROM UserInfo
WHERE UName='aratcliffe'
AND UPass='password'

it still finds the record. Obviously, for some illogical reason it's
case-insensitive.

How can I force it to be case-sensitive ?

Yours,

Ann-Marie Ratcliffe
(e-mail address removed)

PS. I get the same result when I test it directly in Access, so its
definitely Access at fault.
 
Found a workaround.

SELECT Id, UName, UPass
FROM UserInfo
WHERE StrComp(UName,'aratcliffe',0)=0
AND StrComp(UPass,'password',0)=0

will search case-sensitively, for the example below. I still think its an
idiotic situation though.

Yours,

Ann-Marie Ratcliffe
(e-mail address removed)
 
A Ratcliffe said:
Found a workaround.

SELECT Id, UName, UPass
FROM UserInfo
WHERE StrComp(UName,'aratcliffe',0)=0
AND StrComp(UPass,'password',0)=0

will search case-sensitively, for the example below. I still think its an
idiotic situation though.
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Some database engines are case sensitive, some are not, and some let you choose. Jet
happens to not be. While you might not agree with that, I think that for the
majority of the users for which it is targeted case sensitivity would have been a big
point of confusion.
 
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