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Patindex Case Sensitive Search

Patindex Case Sensitive Search

This article is a result of a quick research of the problem of using PATINDEX to search case insensitive column using case sensitive search. The BOL does not show examples of how to implement particular collation with the PATINDEX function. A relevant thread in MSDN Transact-SQL forum showed the syntax.

Thanks to Jeff Moden I found that I can use Binary collation to be able to use ranges in the search.

So, if we want to split proper names such as JohnDoe, EdgarPo, etc. into two parts, we can use the following code:

DECLARE @t TABLE (Col VARCHAR(20))
 
INSERT INTO @t
SELECT 'JohnDoe'
 
UNION ALL
 
SELECT 'AvramLincoln'
 
UNION ALL
 
SELECT 'Brad Pitt'
 
SELECT Col
       ,COALESCE(STUFF(col, NULLIF(patindex('%[a-z][A-Z]%', Col COLLATE Latin1_General_BIN), 0) + 1, 0, ' '), Col) AS NewCol
FROM @t
 
Hope  this article may help others looking for case sensitive search solution in SQL Server.

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    Naomi  N edited Revision 1. Comment: Typo fix

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