Question

I am trying to run a query like this:

SELECT lower (A.label) FROM addresses A;

and what I get in return is

ERROR 1305 (42000): FUNCTION db.lower does not exist

I am using

+-------------------------+-------------------------------+
| Variable_name           | Value                         |
+-------------------------+-------------------------------+
| protocol_version        | 10                            |
| version                 | 5.0.92-community              |
| version_comment         | MySQL Community Edition (GPL) |
| version_compile_machine | x86_64                        |
| version_compile_os      | unknown-linux-gnu             |
+-------------------------+-------------------------------+

Never had this issue before on any other system but this one… I was under the impression that lower is an internal function and is always there. What can be wrong?

Answer 1

Delete the space between lower and (

SELECT lower(A.label) FROM addresses A;