To lose your data or make it unavailable there is an excellent option in MySQL, rather than drop or delete Option name is lower_case_table_names. Default value of this setting is 0:
mysql> select @@lower_case_table_names;
+--------------------------+
| @@lower_case_table_names |
+--------------------------+
| 0 |
+--------------------------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)
Due to documentation value=0: Table and database names are stored on disk using the lettercase specified in the CREATE TABLE or CREATE DATABASE statement. Name comparisons are case sensitive. You should not set this variable to 0 if you are running MySQL on a system that has case-insensitive file names (such as Windows or OS X). If you force this variable to 0 with –lower-case-table-names=0 on a case-insensitive file system and access MyISAM tablenames using different …
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