“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

SELECT DISTINCT
   CasedTheColumn 
FROM
   (
   SELECT TheColumn COLLATE LATIN1_GENERAL_BIN AS CasedTheColumn
   FROM myTAble
   )FOO
WHERE
   CasedTheColumn IN ('A', 'a'...)