UPPER Function

The UPPER function accepts an expression argument and returns a character string in which every lowercase alphabetical character in the expression is replaced by a corresponding uppercase alphabetic character.

The following example uses the UPPER function to perform a case-insensitive search on the lname column for all employees with the last name of Curran:
SELECT title, INITCAP(fname), INITCAP(lname) FROM employees
   WHERE UPPER (lname) = "CURRAN"

Because the INITCAP function is specified in the projection list, the database server returns the results in a mixed-case format. For example, the output of one matching row might read: accountant James Curran.