Posted by Erland Sommarskog on 04/25/07 15:33

Brian (b.houghtby@eaglecrusher.com) writes:
> In your second example, is the word upper referring to a L in this case.
> Seems like that would just replace everything in that column with an L?

In the case of:

>> UPDATE tbl SET col = upper(col)

"abc123" will be converted to "ABC123". That is, the upper function replaces
lowercase characters to the corresponding uppercase characters according to
the rules of the collation for the column.

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