Case Sensitive collation in MySQL

According to MySQL Manual http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/charset-mysql.html you should be able to set collation to _cs for case sensitivity. You can get a list of _cs collations by executing SHOW COLLATION WHERE COLLATION LIKE "%_cs" query

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After a little research:

Apparently there are no utf8_*_cs in MySQL (yet). If you need case sensitive collation for utf8 fields, you should use utf8_bin. This will mess up ORDER BY, but this can be fixed by ORDER BY column COLLATE utf8_general_ci

Source: http://forums.mysql.com/read.php?103,19380,200971#msg-200971 and http://forums.mysql.com/read.php?103,156527,198794#msg-198794

The new version of MySQL (8.0.1 and higher) comes (finally) with a set of utf8mb4_*_0900_as_cs collations.

More about it here

Try a collation ending in _bin, such as latin1_bin or utf8_bin, depending on your character set.