SQL Select statement separate values into two columns - sql

Question

I have string value in the column Username.
Sample usernames:
USERNAME
--------
foobar123
john
smith23
steve
peter
king213
The user names with numbers at the end means that these users are no longer active. I want to separate these usernames into two columns Active and Not_Active in one Select Statement since i'll be using these for reports purposes.
Result should be:
Active Not_Active
john foobar123
steve smith23
peter king213
Query:
SELECT
Username,
(
CASE Username
WHEN '%[0-9]%' THEN 'Not'
ELSE 'Active'
END
)
FROM
Users;
I tried Case but I don't know how to get the username value.

Answer 1

Expanding on my comment reply to your original posting, you don't want the data in the same output result-set; instead you will want two result sets (i.e. two tables), each with the different criteria.
Note that you cannot use LIKE string matching (%) with the WHEN statement in SQL. You have to use it in a CASE WHEN statement (one without a "switch" expression)
-- Result set one: Active users
SELECT
UserName
FROM
Users
WHERE
UserName NOT LIKE '%[0-9]';
-- Result set two: Inactive users
SELECT
UserName
FROM
Users
WHERE
UserName LIKE '%[0-9]';
If you really want, you can combine these two queries into a single result-set with the data in different columns. This would be done by adding a ROW_NUMBER() column to each intermediate table, then doing a FULL OUTER JOIN on ROW_NUMBER(), however the output result would be meaningless and painful to iterate over in any consuming client code.
Another option might be a single result-set, with a computed IsActive column:
SELECT
UserName,
( CASE WHEN UserName NOT LIKE '%[0-9]' THEN 1 ELSE 0 END ) AS IsActive
FROM
Users
...which would be considerably easier to process in any consuming code.

Answer 2

this format of saving data is quite useful in this one column holds username and other holds status of the user
select username,
case username
when '%[0-9]% then inactive
else active
end as user_status
from table_1
username user_status
john active
john123 inactive