Question

I need to reformat the data in column uk_city, right now all row entries are in Uppercase I want to reformat to FirstChr uppercase and the other lower case.

FELTON to Felton
FENNY COMPTON to Fenny Compton

Answer 1

I post a function found here

CREATE FUNCTION CAP_FIRST (input VARCHAR(255))

RETURNS VARCHAR(255)

DETERMINISTIC

BEGIN
    DECLARE len INT;
    DECLARE i INT;

    SET len   = CHAR_LENGTH(input);
    SET input = LOWER(input);
    SET i = 0;

    WHILE (i < len) DO
        IF (MID(input,i,1) = ' ' OR i = 0) THEN
            IF (i < len) THEN
                SET input = CONCAT(
                    LEFT(input,i),
                    UPPER(MID(input,i + 1,1)),
                    RIGHT(input,len - i - 1)
                );
            END IF;
        END IF;
        SET i = i + 1;
    END WHILE;

    RETURN input;
END;

If you create this function in your database, you can do

UPDATE uk_city SET name = CAP_FIRST(name);