To use any function, you need to modify your query so that you specify to which column or columns the function should be applied to.
ex.:
select Trim(client_name) from clients;
Function
| Usage
| LENGTH()
- returns the length of the string stored in the column
| Length(column)
| LEFT(), RIGHT()
- returns the leftmost x or rightmost x characters from a column
| Left(column, x)
Right(column, x)
| UPPER(), LOWER(), SUBSTRING()
- turns the stored string into all Capitalized letters or all-lowercase format
- Substring, returns length characters from column beginning with
start(indexed from 0)
| Upper(column)
Lower(column)
SubString(column, start, length)
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This function joins or add up or connect two(2) or more string into one(1), see sample below:
ex.:
select concat(last_name,',',first_name) as names from Users
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