table alias (or 'symlink') in mysql

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Published on 2010-05-22T19:36:10Z Indexed on 2010/05/22 19:41 UTC
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Hi there,

in MySQL5.1, is there a way to make one table accessible by two different names? I'm thinking about somethink like a symlink on linux filesystems.

I know theres the

CREATE VIEW myview AS SELECT * FrOM mytable

thing, but I don't only need to SELECT from both names, but also delete etc ...

You might ask why I want to do this? It's about getting a commercial, closed-source app to work, which is crappily programmed (usually, the table names are all lower-case, but occasionally, they use capitalized names for the same table ...). Oh, that would be another idea: Is there a way to tell MySQL not to care about capitalization of table names (like on Windows filesystems?)? that would also do the trick ...

Thanks for your insight!

A.

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