UPPERB

Returns a character string with each ASCII character converted to uppercase. Multibyte characters are not converted and are skipped.

Behavior type

Syntax

UPPERB ( expression )

Arguments

expression

(CHAR or VARCHAR) is the string to convert

Examples

In the following example, the multibyte UTF-8 character é is not converted to uppercase:

=> SELECT UPPERB('étudiant');
  UPPERB
----------
 éTUDIANT
(1 row)

=> SELECT UPPERB('AbCdEfG');
 UPPERB
---------
 ABCDEFG
(1 row)

=> SELECT UPPERB('The Vertica Database');
        UPPERB
----------------------
 THE VERTICA DATABASE
(1 row)