Find ONLY Capital Letters in word through IN SQL Server query

Question

I have to do this in SQL Server

I have data such as

Belo Horizonte , MG - Brazil
São Paulo , SP - Brazil
Barueri , SP - Brazil
Ferraz de Vasconcelos          


        

Answer 1

Try this: You need to both collate the column AND specify the capital letters. The regular expression [A-Z] is not case sensitive, even if you specify a collation sequence.

SELECT    SUBSTRING(
            ADDRESS_BLOCK
            , PatIndex(    
                N'% [ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ][ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ] %'
                , ADDRESS_BLOCK COLLATE sql_latin1_general_cp1_cs_as
                )
            , 3
            ) 
FROM 
    (
        SELECT 'Belo Horizonte , MG - Brazil' ADDRESS_BLOCK
        UNION
        SELECT 'São Paulo , SP - Brazil' 
        UNION
        SELECT 'Barueri , SP - Brazil' 
        UNION
        SELECT 'Ferraz de Vasconcelos , SP - Brazil' 
    ) n