Question

I’m writing a utility script that will take a column from a database table and produce a snipped of javascript code. What I would like is to return a value like “First_Name” and camel case it to “firstName”. Is there an easy way to do this in SQL? I’m using T-SQL.

Answer 1

How about this:

CREATE FUNCTION [dbo].[udfCamel]
(
    @Name   VARCHAR(50)
)
RETURNS varchar(50)
AS
BEGIN
    declare @newstring varchar(50)

    set @newstring = stuff(replace(@Name, '_', ''), 1, 1, lower(left(@Name, 1)))

    RETURN @newstring
END

Then when you execute it:

declare @str varchar(50)
set @str = 'First_Name'
select dbo.udfCamel(@str)

returns: firstName