UPPER

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

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

SELECT UPPER('upper');

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