HANA db case sensitivity with SQL text searches

Hi folks,

We have a HANA view that users are consuming via Microstrategy.  All fields such as PLANT (WERKS) are case sensitive.  For example if the plant is named 'XYZ1' then the following SQL is NOT returning any results;

select * from TABLENAME where WERKS = 'xyz1'

Now my microstrategy developer is saying that other databases he consumes are not case sensitive and this setting is configured typically at the database level.  So my question is twofold;

1) Is there a database level setting in HANA for case sensitivity?

2) If this option is available does it really make sense to turn this sensitivity off?

Thanks,

-Patrick