I recently had a request from a client that wanted to capitalize the first letter of each word in the account description. I found that Oracle has a built in function for this but SQL Server does not. After some research I found a script that was useful and thought I would post it out here for others to use.
–This is the update function
update GL00100 set ACTDESCR = dbo.InitCap(ACTDESCR)
–This is the SQL Function
CREATE FUNCTION [dbo].[InitCap] ( @InputString varchar(4000) )
RETURNS VARCHAR(4000)
AS
BEGIN
DECLARE @Index INT
DECLARE @Char CHAR(1)
DECLARE @PrevChar CHAR(1)
DECLARE @OutputString VARCHAR(255)
SET @OutputString = LOWER(@InputString)
SET @Index = 1
WHILE @Index <= LEN(@InputString)
BEGIN
SET @Char = SUBSTRING(@InputString, @Index, 1)
SET @PrevChar = CASE WHEN @Index = 1 THEN ‘ ‘
ELSE SUBSTRING(@InputString, @Index – 1, 1)
END
IF @PrevChar IN (‘ ‘, ‘;’, ‘:’, ‘!’, ‘?’, ‘,’, ‘.’, ‘_’, ‘-‘, ‘/’, ‘&’, ””, ‘(‘)
BEGIN
IF @PrevChar != ”” OR UPPER(@Char) != ‘S’
SET @OutputString = STUFF(@OutputString, @Index, 1, UPPER(@Char))
END
SET @Index = @Index + 1
END
RETURN @OutputString
END
GO
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