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INITCAP(x) 

INITCAP(x) is a string function that changes a character string so that the first character of a word is an uppercase letter and the rest of the word consists of lowercase characters. When this happens, different words are split by one or more characters from the 7-bit ASCII character set that are not letters or digits (commas, blanks, or colons, for example).

 

Result of the Function INITCAP(x)

x is a NULL value

NULL value

Example table: customer

Standardizing the notation for names

SELECT name, INITCAP(name) new_name
FROM customer WHERE firstname IS NULL

NAME

NEW_NAME

DATASOFT

Datasoft

TOOLware

TOOLware

 

 

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