Changing a varchar2 field to uppercase
Please advise on changing data in a varchar2 column to all uppercase. It currently holds a mix of upper- and l...
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You can make the change to all current rows with a single update statement as follows:
UPDATE my_table SET my_column = UPPER(my_column) ;
CREATE TRIGGER make_upper BEFORE UPDATE OR INSERT ON my_table FOR EACH ROW begin :new.my_column := upper(:new.my_column) ; end ; /
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