Lowercase—%LOWER

Use this function when you want CDC Replication to convert all uppercase characters in a string to lowercase during replication.

Syntax

%LOWER(value)

Parameters

value
Specifies a character column, literal, or column function that returns a character string.

Result data type

Character-based. Returns NULL if value is NULL.

Examples

%LOWER(DEPARTMENT)

Returns the strings in the DEPARTMENT column in lowercase. For example, accounting, marketing, and so on.

%LOWER(BrUcE JoNeS)

Returns the string bruce jones.

%LOWER(%SUBSTRING(BrUcE JoNeS,3,2))

Returns the string uc.

%LOWER(<<65>><<78>><<78>><<65>><<32>><<75>><<73>><<77>>)

Returns the ASCII string anna kim.