“SELECT DISTINCT” ignores different cases

Question

I have the problem, that MSSQL Server 2000 should select some distinct values from a table (the specific column is of the nvarchar type). There are the sometimes the same va

Answer 1

Not sure about MS SQL but with MySQL or postgres, use BINARY for this operation. Cast the column to binary like so:

SELECT DISTINCT BINARY(column1) from table1;

Just change column1 and table1 as per your schema.

Full example that works for me in MySQL 5.7, should work for others:

SELECT DISTINCT BINARY(gateway) from transactions;

Cheers!