HI Nicolas, Did you get any resolution for this ? I also have a similar requirement where I need to do case-insensitive joins across the system and I don't wish to apply upper/lower functions.  I tried setting TBLPROPERTIES('serialization.encoding'='utf8mb4_unicode_ci') at Table level but still the comparison is happening considering case sensitivity.  PSB - drop table test.caseI; create table test.caseI (name string, id int) TBLPROPERTIES('serialization.encoding'='utf8mb4_unicode_ci'); insert into test.caseI values ('hj',1); drop table test.caseI_2; create table test.caseI_2 (name string, id int) TBLPROPERTIES('serialization.encoding'='utf8mb4_unicode_ci'); insert into test.caseI_2 values ('HJ',1); select * from test.caseI i inner join test.caseI_2 i2 on i.name=i2.name; --No Result Tried with encoding 'SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AI' but got same result as above. Any help would be appreciated, thanks! ... View more