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Asked: 2026-05-20T18:53:02+00:00

Thanks to some help on this site, I’ve written a query to find any

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Thanks to some help on this site, I’ve written a query to find any rows WHERE ‘first’ or ‘last’ are not capitalized. Each condition works fine on its own, but when combined into a single query with OR, then I no longer detect non-capitalized entries in the ‘first’ column – only in the ‘last’ column. Where am I going wrong? Thanks.

SELECT first,last FROM main WHERE 

CONCAT( UPPER( SUBSTRING(first,1,1) ), SUBSTRING(first FROM 2) ) != first

OR

CONCAT( UPPER( SUBSTRING(last,1,1) ),  SUBSTRING(last FROM 2) ) != last

COLLATE latin1_general_cs
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  1. Editorial Team

    You need the COLLATE on both conditions:

    SELECT first,last FROM main WHERE 
CONCAT( UPPER( SUBSTRING(first,1,1) ), SUBSTRING(first FROM 2) ) != first
COLLATE latin1_general_cs
OR
CONCAT( UPPER( SUBSTRING(last,1,1) ),  SUBSTRING(last FROM 2) ) != last
COLLATE latin1_general_cs

    Or, simplifying the query per the suggestion in the comments above:

    SELECT first,last FROM main WHERE 
UPPER( SUBSTRING(first,1,1))  != SUBSTRING(first,1,1)
COLLATE latin1_general_cs
OR
UPPER( SUBSTRING(last,1,1)) != SUBSTRING(last,1,1)
COLLATE latin1_general_cs
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