How to do a case sensitive GROUP BY?

Question

If I execute the code below:

with temp as
(
  select \'Test\' as name
  UNION ALL
  select \'TEST\'
  UNION ALL
  select \'test\'
  UNION ALL
  select \'test         


        

Answer 1

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