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Appendix A: System Functions
UNICODE
The UNICODE function returns the Unicode number that represents the first character in character_
expression. The syntax is as follows:
UPPER
UNICODE(‘’)
The UPPER function converts all the lowercase characters in character_expression into uppercase
characters. The syntax is as follows:
UPPER()
System Functions
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The system functions – the more longstanding way of referring to what Microsoft is now referring to
simply as “other” – can be used to return information about values, objects and settings with SQL
Server. The functions are as follows:
❑ APP_NAME
❑ CASE
❑ CAST and CONVERT
❑ COALESCE
❑ COLLATIONPROPERTY
❑ CURRENT_TIMESTAMP
❑ CURRENT_USER
❑ DATALENGTH
❑ FORMATMESSAGE
❑ GETANSINULL
❑ HOST_ID
❑ HOST_NAME
❑ IDENT_CURRENT
❑ IDENT_INCR
❑ IDENT_SEED
❑ IDENTITY
❑ ISDATE
❑ ISNULL
❑ ISNUMERIC