There are two pairs of MySQL string case conversion functions: lower(), upper() and lcase(), ucase():
mysql> select lower('AAA'); +--------------+ | lower('AAA') | +--------------+ | aaa | +--------------+ mysql> select upper('aaa'); +--------------+ |upper('aaa') | +--------------+ | AAA | +--------------+ mysql> select lcase('AAA'); +--------------+ | lcase('AAA') | +--------------+ | aaa | +--------------+ mysql> select ucase('aaa'); +--------------+ | ucase('aaa') | +--------------+ | AAA | +--------------+