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[!INCLUDEtsql-appliesto-ss2008-all_md]
Returns a character expression with lowercase character data converted to uppercase.
Transact-SQL Syntax Conventions
-- Syntax for SQL Server, Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Data Warehouse, Parallel Data Warehouse
UPPER ( character_expression )
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.
varchar or nvarchar
The following example uses the UPPER and RTRIM functions to return the last name of people in the Person table in the [!INCLUDEssSampleDBnormal] database so that it is uppercase, trimmed, and concatenated with the first name.
SELECT UPPER(RTRIM(LastName)) + ', ' + FirstName AS Name
FROM Person.Person
ORDER BY LastName;
GO
The following example uses the UPPER and RTRIM functions to return the last name of people in the dbo.DimEmployee table so that it is in uppercase, trimmed, and concatenated with the first name.
-- Uses AdventureWorks
SELECT UPPER(RTRIM(LastName)) + ', ' + FirstName AS Name
FROM dbo.DimEmployee
ORDER BY LastName;
Here is a partial result set.
Name
------------------------------
ABBAS, Syed
ABERCROMBIE, Kim
ABOLROUS, Hazem