Suppose we have a table #TBL with column SEARCH_CONTENT which have values like 'DILIP SINGH', 'dilip singh' and 'Dilip Singh' like below.
CREATETABLE #TBL
(
ID INTIDENTITY(1,1),
SEARCH_CONTENT VARCHAR(500)
)
INSERTINTO #TBL(SEARCH_CONTENT)
SELECT'DILIP SINGH'
UNIONALL
SELECT'dilip singh'
UNIONALL
SELECT'Dilip Singh'
If you will run following script it will return three row of table
SELECT*FROM #TBL WHERE SEARCH_CONTENT LIKE'%DILIP SINGH%'
Result
ID SEARCH_CONTENT
----------- -----------------------
1 DILIP SINGH
2 dilip singh
3 Dilip Singh
Above query may be change in case sensitive to change collation of query. See following query.
SELECT*FROM #TBL WHERE SEARCH_CONTENT COLLATE Latin1_General_CS_AS LIKE'%DILIP SINGH%'
Result
ID SEARCH_CONTENT
----------- ------------------------
1 DILIP SINGH
Here COLLATE Latin1_General_CS_AS makes the search case sensitive.