Hi - I am using SQL Server 2000. I have a table called EMPDATA - all the data is Uppercase. My plan is to run a nightly job that updates these fields. I would like to change the FIRST_NAME column and LAST_NAME column to Proper case. I have been able to change the first letter of the name upper and the rest lower case, but the names is the database are not that straight forward. Here are some of the examples of names I am dealing with:
FIRST_NAME WOULD LIKE
JIM Jim
JIM JAMES Jim James
LAST_NAME
TORRES Torres
TORREZ JR. Torrez Jr.
TORRES-ARTEGA Torres-Artega
VAN DER MARLE Van Der Marle
TORRES ARTEGA Torres Artega
Thanks in advance for your help.
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you may want to look at this to appreicate some of the problems with "Proper Casing"
http://www.experts-exchang
this leads to a T-SQL method...
but recommends doing it externally... (it is Client side validation issue... really...
you should get the user to confirm there acceptance of the data...)
http://www.experts-exchang
hth
You can also check this user-defined function:
http://www.sql-server-help
Here's my version of a function. I can also adjust it if you want to treat any char that is not a-z or 0-9 as requiring upper case after it. Naturally change input variable len to match what you need.
CREATE FUNCTION dbo.ProperCase
(
--The string to be converted to proper case
@input VARCHAR(500)
--, @delims VARCHAR(10) = ' ,-;' --uncomment to allow delims to be a param
)
RETURNS VARCHAR(500)
AS
BEGIN
--The character(s) to be recognized as separating strings that need capitalized
DECLARE @delims VARCHAR(10)
SET @delims = ' ,-;'
DECLARE @inputLen SMALLINT
DECLARE @byte SMALLINT
DECLARE @delimFound BIT
SET @inputLen = LEN(@input)
SET @byte = 1
SET @delimFound = 1
WHILE @byte <= @inputLen
BEGIN
IF CHARINDEX(SUBSTRING(@input
SET @delimFound = 1
ELSE
BEGIN
IF @delimFound = 1
BEGIN
SET @input = STUFF(@input, @byte, 1, UPPER(SUBSTRING(@input, @byte, 1)))
SET @delimFound = 0
END --IF
ELSE
SET @input = STUFF(@input, @byte, 1, LOWER(SUBSTRING(@input, @byte, 1)))
END --ELSE
SET @byte = @byte + 1
END --WHILE
RETURN @input
END --FUNCTION
Thank you all for your comments and suggestions. I should have mentioned this early(sorry, really) but I am trying to do this as part of a nightly job using SQL Server Agent. I usually work in access and I am (to say the least) a bit confused in SQL Server. Can I use a function provided as part of a nightly feed? How do I call it? Thank you again.
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by: angelIIIPosted on 2006-06-27 at 11:38:27ID: 16995209
please check out this procedure:
http://vyaskn.tripod.com/c