# Lower Case Table Names

**URL:** <https://forums.percona.com/t/lower-case-table-names/4816>\
**Category:** Percona Server for MySQL 5.7\
**Created:** [March 29, 2016, 3:54am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/lower-case-table-names/4816 "2016-03-29T03:54:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![anca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d26b3c/32.png) [@anca](https://forums.percona.com/u/anca)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2016, 3:54am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/lower-case-table-names/4816/1 "2016-03-29T03:54:39Z")

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I want to force Percona Server 5.7 (running on Ubuntu 15.1))to default to lower case table names.  
I hoped to get this working by inserting " lower-case-table-names=1" in my.cnf

This setting is being ignored for some reason - any ideas what the problem could be ?

thanks