SQL UPPER, UCASE Functions

The UPPER function converts the value of a field to uppercase. The UPPER function is used for SQL Server. Other SQL platforms may use the UCASE function.

Employees Table

In this example, we want to find to see convert the employeeName field to uppercase in the query results.

Syntax

SELECT UPPER(column_name)
FROM Table

Example

SELECT UPPER(employeeName) as [EMPLOYEE NAME]
FROM employees

Results

The SQL UPPER function is used to convert a given field in a table to uppercase characters.