SQL query to alter text in "from" field

fredrikse

Active member
Hi,

I'm about to migrate my current vBulletin to Xenforo. Right now I'm taking care of the last preparations. One thing I need to do is to run a sql query on some user fields to make all letters non capital except for the first letter that should be capital. Is this possible with help of an SQL query?
 
If you are happy with a space being the only word delimiter, you could do this:

Code:
SELECT
title,
 
REPLACE(
REPLACE(
REPLACE(
REPLACE(
REPLACE(
REPLACE(
REPLACE(
REPLACE(
REPLACE(
REPLACE(
REPLACE(
REPLACE(
REPLACE(
REPLACE(
REPLACE(
REPLACE(
REPLACE(
REPLACE(
REPLACE(
REPLACE(
REPLACE(
REPLACE(
REPLACE(
REPLACE(
REPLACE(
REPLACE(
CONCAT(UPPER(SUBSTRING(title, 1, 1)), LOWER(SUBSTRING(title, 2)))
, ' a', ' A')
, ' b', ' B')
, ' c', ' C')
, ' d', ' D')
, ' e', ' E')
, ' f', ' F')
, ' g', ' G')
, ' h', ' H')
, ' i', ' I')
, ' j', ' J')
, ' k', ' K')
, ' l', ' L')
, ' m', ' M')
, ' n', ' N')
, ' o', ' O')
, ' p', ' P')
, ' q', ' Q')
, ' r', ' R')
, ' s', ' S')
, ' t', ' T')
, ' u', ' U')
, ' v', ' V')
, ' w', ' W')
, ' x', ' X')
, ' y', ' Y')
, ' z', ' Z')
 
FROM tablename;

Or just add the other delimiters as well ...
I don't know if there is a limit on how deep nested functions can go :)
 
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