"Torsten Lange" <t.lange@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:40BC5D47.4010003@xxxxxxxxx > > But when using queries on the USER_... data dictionary, Oracle > delivers always big letters, which is for > > chemical elements (NA vs. Na) or location names (ALICE SPRINGS vs. > Alice Springs) and location codes > > often uncomfortable to read. > > It happend in the heat of the moment... The above is only the case for > column names, i.e. the parameter columns (Na, Mg...). Locations etc. > belonging of course to data sets. Hi Torsten, you can use mb_strtolower() to convert the column names to lower case and then ucfirst() to make the first letter uppercase: echo ucfirst(mb_strtolower($fieldname)); Regards, Torsten Roehr -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php