Mysql extract first letter of each word in a specific column

Question

I want to create an acronym column in a table. I want to be grab the first letter of each word from a \'name\' column, capitalize it, then concatenate all into an \'acronym\

Answer 1

This should get all the first letters into a result set:

SELECT UPPER(SUBSTR(name, 0, 1)) FROM the_table

Concatenating them all into a single acronym would, I think, require a procedure of some kind. I don't think it can be done in a statement.