How to do a case sensitive GROUP BY?
If I execute the code below:
with temp as
(
select 'Test' as name
UNION ALL
select 'TEST'
UNION ALL
select 'test'
UNION ALL
select 'tester'
UNION ALL
select 'tester'
)
SELECT name, COUNT(name)
FROM temp
group by name
It returns the results:
TEST 3
tester 2
Is there a way to have the group by be case sensitive so that the results would be:
Test 1
TEST 1
test 1
tester 2
You need to cast the text as binary (or use a case-sensitive collation).
With temp as
(
select 'Test' as name
UNION ALL
select 'TEST'
UNION ALL
select 'test'
UNION ALL
select 'tester'
UNION ALL
select 'tester'
)
Select Name, COUNT(name)
From temp
Group By Name, Cast(name As varbinary(100))
Using a collation:
Select Name Collate SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CS_AS, COUNT(name)
From temp
Group By Name Collate SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CS_AS
You can use an case sensitive collation:
with temp as
(
select 'Test' COLLATE Latin1_General_CS_AS as name
UNION ALL
select 'TEST'
UNION ALL
select 'test'
UNION ALL
select 'tester'
UNION ALL
select 'tester'
)
SELECT name, COUNT(name)
FROM temp
group by name
Simply:
SELECT count(*), CAST(lastname as BINARY) AS lastname_cs
FROM names
GROUP BY lastname_cs;