Question

Does any one know the equivalent to this TSQL in MySQL parlance?

I am trying to capitalize the first letter of each entry.

UPDATE tb_Company SET CompanyIndustry = UPPER(LEFT(CompanyIndustry, 1))
+ SUBSTRING(CompanyIndustry, 2, LEN(CompanyIndustry))

Answer 1

It’s almost the same, you just have to change to use the CONCAT() function instead of the + operator :

UPDATE tb_Company
SET CompanyIndustry = CONCAT(UCASE(LEFT(CompanyIndustry, 1)), 
                             SUBSTRING(CompanyIndustry, 2));

This would turn hello to Hello, wOrLd to WOrLd, BLABLA to BLABLA, etc. If you want to upper-case the first letter and lower-case the other, you just have to use LCASE function :

UPDATE tb_Company
SET CompanyIndustry = CONCAT(UCASE(LEFT(CompanyIndustry, 1)), 
                             LCASE(SUBSTRING(CompanyIndustry, 2)));

Note that UPPER and UCASE do the same thing.