Tagged: MySQL String Functions

How to Capitalize the First Letter of a String in MySQL

When working with text data in MySQL, you may encounter strings with inconsistent capitalization. For example, a database might contain values such as: grizzliesmavericksCAVALIERSSpurshawKsnets For reporting, dashboards, applications, and data-cleaning workflows, you may want...

How to Select the First N Characters of a String in MySQL

When working with text data in MySQL, you may sometimes need to extract only the first few characters from a string. This is useful for data cleaning, reporting, categorization, search, and text preprocessing. For...

MySQL Limit the Number of Characters Returned

MySQL Limit the Number of Characters Returned, you may sometimes need to truncate a string and return only a specific number of characters from a column. For example, suppose a table contains team names...