SOUNDEX – Ramblings of a Crafty DBA

I am going to continue my series of very short articles or tidbits on Transaction SQL string functions. I will exploring the UPPER() function today. The UPPER() function takes a source string as input and returns a output string with all alpha characters converted to upper case. The following example converts the favorite movie title of mine to upper case.

-- Make my string upper case
select upper('wizard of oz') as str_phrase

1 2	-- Make my string upper case select upper('wizard of oz') as str_phrase

output: 

str_phrase
------------
WIZARD OF OZ

output:

str_phrase

------------

WIZARD OF OZ

One thing to always worry about when using TSQL functions is how will it react with empty strings or NULL values? Both empty strings and NULL values as…

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String Functions – UPPER()

String Functions – SOUNDEX()