On Thu, 2002-08-22 at 13:08, JDK wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 22, 2002 at 04:47:53PM +0100, paul butler wrote:
> >
> > > have a small single table database that multiple people enter data
> > > into, and I do some reporting from. I would like to be able to force
> > > everything to upper case because currently it seems that ABCD or abcd
> > > or AbCd are all treated as unique, and it cause me problems in
> > > reporting, not to mention it makes me nuts seeing the data in the
> > > tables all inconsistent like that.
> > >
> > > How would I force everything to upper case?
> >
> > Would using the upper function work?
> >
> > for your data entry query
> >
> > insert into table (field) values (upper(value));
> >
>
> OK, this worked nicely for my needs. Is there a command that I
> could run that would convert my existing data to all uppercase?
update table set field=upper(field);
>
> Thanks,
> jdk
>
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