Microsoft SQL Server
- Getting started with Microsoft SQL Server
- Awesome Book
- Awesome Community
- Awesome Course
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- Advanced options
- Aggregate Functions
- Alias Names in Sql Server
- Analyzing a Query
- Backup and Restore Database
- Basic DDL Operations in MS SQL Server
- bcp (bulk copy program) Utility
- BULK Import
- CASE Statement
- CLUSTERED COLUMNSTORE
- COALESCE
- Common Language Runtime Integration
- Common Table Expressions
- Computed Columns
- Converting data types
- CREATE VIEW
- cross apply
- Cursors
- Data Types
- Database permissions
- Database Snapshots
- Dates
- DBCC
- DBMAIL
- Delimiting special characters and reserved words
- Drop Keyword
- Dynamic data masking
- Dynamic SQL
- Dynamic SQL Pivot
- Encryption
- Export data in txt file by using SQLCMD
- File Group
- Filestream
- FOR JSON
- FOR XML PATH
- Foreign Keys
- Full-Text Indexing
- Generating a range of dates
- GROUP BY
- IF...ELSE
- Index
- In-Memory OLTP (Hekaton)
- Insert
- INSERT INTO
- Installing SQL Server on Windows
- Isolation levels and locking
- Join
- JSON in Sql Server
- Last Inserted Identity
- Limit Result Set
- Logical Functions
- Managing Azure SQL Database
- MERGE
- Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio Shortcut Keys
- Migration
- Modify JSON text
- Move and copy data around tables
- Natively compiled modules (Hekaton)
- NULLs
- OPENJSON
- ORDER BY
- OVER Clause
- Pagination
- Parsename
- Partitioning
- Permissions and Security
- PHANTOM read
- PIVOT / UNPIVOT
- Primary Keys
- Privileges or Permissions
- Queries with JSON data
- Query Hints
- Query Store
- Querying results by page
- Ranking Functions
- Resource Governor
- Retrieve information about the database
- Retrieve Information about your Instance
- Row-level security
- Scheduled Task or Job
- Schemas
- SCOPE_IDENTITY()
- SELECT statement
- Sequences
- Service broker
- Sorting/ordering rows
- Spatial Data
- Split String function in Sql Server
- SQL Server Evolution through different versions (2000 - 2016)
- SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
- SQLCMD
- Stored Procedures
- Storing JSON in SQL tables
- String Aggregate functions in SQL Server
- String Functions
- ASCII
- Char
- CharIndex
- Concat
- Difference
- Format
- Left
- Len
- Lower
- LTrim
- NChar
- PatIndex
- Quotename
- Replace
- Replicate
- Reverse
- Right
- RTrim
- Soundex
- Space
- Str
- String_escape
- String_Split
- Substring
- Unicode
- Upper
- Subqueries
- System database - TempDb
- Table Valued Parameters
- Temporal Tables
- The STUFF Function
- Transaction handling
- Transaction isolation levels
- Trigger
- TRY/CATCH
- UNION
- Use of TEMP Table
- User Defined Table Types
- Variables
- Views
- WHILE loop
- Window functions
- With Ties Option
Example
Returns a character expression (varchar or nvarchar) after converting all lowercase characters to uppercase.
Parameters:
- Character expression. Any expression of character or binary data that can be implicitly converted to
varchar.
SELECT UPPER('This IS my STRING') -- Returns 'THIS IS MY STRING'
DECLARE @String nchar(17) = N'This IS my STRING';
SELECT UPPER(@String) -- Returns 'THIS IS MY STRING'
