UPPER (Transact-SQL)

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SQL database in Microsoft Fabric

Returns a character expression with lowercase character data converted to uppercase.

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Transact-SQL syntax conventions

Syntax

UPPER ( character_expression ) 

Arguments

character_expression
Is an expression of character data. character_expression can be a constant, variable, or column of either character or binary data.

character_expression must be of a data type that is implicitly convertible to varchar. Otherwise, use CAST to explicitly convert character_expression.

Return Types

varchar or nvarchar

Examples

The following example uses the UPPER and RTRIM functions to return the last name of people in the dbo.DimEmployee table so that it is in uppercase, trimmed, and concatenated with the first name.

-- Uses AdventureWorks 
 
SELECT UPPER(RTRIM(LastName)) + ', ' + FirstName AS Name 
FROM dbo.DimEmployee 
ORDER BY LastName; 

Here is a partial result set.

Name
------------------------------
ABBAS, Syed
ABERCROMBIE, Kim
ABOLROUS, Hazem

See Also

Data Types (Transact-SQL)
LOWER (Transact-SQL)