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

Collation matters. You need to add Collate to your query, such as:

Select * from table where exists (Select SUBSTRING(ADDRESS_BLOCK,PatIndex('% [A-Z][A-Z] %',ADDRESS_BLOCK),3) from table)
COLLATE Latin1_General_CS_AS_KS_WS ASC;

You may need a difference collation - your current one is clearly case insensitive. You can find you current collation, and replace Latin1_General_CS_AS_KS_WS with the one you need, replacing the CI with CS, to get the case senstive version of your current collation.

See: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms184391.aspx