On Wed, 30 Jun 2004, Aaron Wolski wrote:

> Hi Guys,
>
> I'm trying to figure out of this is possible. I know I could do it in
> PHP but I am dealing with a ton of records and would rather put the
> processing on the DB than PHP/client side.
>
> Question is. can I do a SELECT query on a column that changes all the
> results to lower case and THEN changes the first character of each
> result to an upper case?
>
> Example:
>
> Currently in DB: AARON
> to Lowercase: aaron
> to Uppercase: Aaron
>
>
> Any idea on if I can do this and how I might approach it?

what about:

SELECT CONCAT( UPPER( LEFT(field,1) ),
LOWER( SUBSTRING(field,2) ) ) AS Something FROM ...

Thomas Spahni


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