diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 0208f46c72..df7f4a3952 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ phpMyAdmin - ChangeLog
 - issue #12868 Fix check for user groups freatures being enabled
 - issue #12831 Fix table formatting on Insert tab, which mostly affected row highlighting
 - issue #12495 Reintroduced phpinfo page with limited capabilities
+- issue #12861 Fix renaming tables with lower_case_table_names=2
 
 4.6.5.2 (2016-12-05)
 - issue #12765 Fixed SQL export with newlines
diff --git a/libraries/Table.php b/libraries/Table.php
index c4fca789a8..5aae6a7043 100644
--- a/libraries/Table.php
+++ b/libraries/Table.php
@@ -1342,15 +1342,7 @@ class Table
      */
     function rename($new_name, $new_db = null)
     {
-        $lowerCaseTableNames = Util::cacheGet(
-            'lower_case_table_names',
-            function () {
-                return $GLOBALS['dbi']->fetchValue(
-                    "SELECT @@lower_case_table_names"
-                );
-            }
-        );
-        if ($lowerCaseTableNames) {
+        if ($GLOBALS['dbi']->getLowerCaseNames() === '1') {
             $new_name = strtolower($new_name);
         }
 
diff --git a/libraries/operations.lib.php b/libraries/operations.lib.php
index 358bd8a2b5..89d6103881 100644
--- a/libraries/operations.lib.php
+++ b/libraries/operations.lib.php
@@ -353,10 +353,7 @@ function PMA_runProcedureAndFunctionDefinitions($db)
 function PMA_createDbBeforeCopy()
 {
     // lower_case_table_names=1 `DB` becomes `db`
-    $lowerCaseTableNames = $GLOBALS['dbi']->fetchValue(
-        'SELECT @@lower_case_table_names'
-    );
-    if ($lowerCaseTableNames === '1') {
+    if ($GLOBALS['dbi']->getLowerCaseNames() === '1') {
         $_REQUEST['newname'] = mb_strtolower(
             $_REQUEST['newname']
         );
diff --git a/test/classes/TableTest.php b/test/classes/TableTest.php
index 760cdefe02..97ed81d4fa 100644
--- a/test/classes/TableTest.php
+++ b/test/classes/TableTest.php
@@ -751,7 +751,6 @@ class TableTest extends PMATestCase
     {
         $table = 'PMA_BookMark';
         $db = 'PMA';
-        Util::cacheSet('lower_case_table_names', false);
 
         $table = new Table($table, $db);