Title Case

Hello,
I have a table TRANS with a column called NAME (varchar2(40)). Most of the records are in title case already (St. John St) but there are a few in upper case (OLD HIGHWAY). I want to change the upper case records to title case. I've seen a few different ways on the internet to do this but I don't really understand them. I'm using SQLPLUS.
Any advice is appreciated! Thanks!

Be warned. INITCAP() is similar to, but not the same as TITLE(). INITCAP() makes the first letter or each word upper case. The function TITLE(), where I have seen it implemented, leaves minor words lower case - as in a book title.
INITCAP('not a deal') returns Not A Deal. TITLE('not a deal') would return Not a Deal.
Not necessarily a problem, just be aware of it.

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