How to do a case sensitive search in WHERE clause (I'm using SQL Server)?
Can be done via changing the Collation. By default it is case insensitive.
Excerpt from the link:
SELECT 1
FROM dbo.Customers
WHERE CustID = @CustID COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CS_AS
AND CustPassword = @CustPassword COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CS_AS
Or, change the columns to be case sensitive.
By using collation or casting to binary, like this:
SELECT *
FROM Users
WHERE
Username = @Username COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CS_AS
AND Password = @Password COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CS_AS
AND Username = @Username
AND Password = @Password
The duplication of username/password exists to give the engine the possibility of using indexes. The collation above is a Case Sensitive collation, change to the one you need if necessary.
The second, casting to binary, could be done like this:
SELECT *
FROM Users
WHERE
CAST(Username as varbinary(100)) = CAST(@Username as varbinary))
AND CAST(Password as varbinary(100)) = CAST(@Password as varbinary(100))
AND Username = @Username
AND Password = @Password
You can make the query using convert to varbinary – it’s very easy. Example:
Select * from your_table where convert(varbinary, your_column) = convert(varbinary, 'aBcD')