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What collation to use to store characters from the Character Map? [closed]

I have an SQL Server 2012 database with the default collation of SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS. I've noticed that certain characters from the Windows Character Map application namely small letters with ...
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What's the meaning of the Collation Code (blank, 90, 100, 110) in SQL Server 2012

During the installation of SQL Server 2012, in the Collation tab, i can choose between French_CI_AS and French_100_CI_AS. What do they mean and which one is newer? When there's no Code, is it newer ...
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Converting data from SQL Server to MySQL using MySQL Workbench and preserving special characters

I am trying to convert a SQL Server database with a SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS collation into a MySQL database using MySQL Workbench. I can successfully complete the process without any issues being ...
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Why are non-digits LIKE [0-9]?

My server's default collation is Latin1_General_CI_AS, as determined by this query: SELECT SERVERPROPERTY('Collation') AS Collation; I was surprised to discover that with this collation I can match ...
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sql_slovak_cp1250_ci_as vs Slovak_CI_AS

Can someone explain to me what is the difference between collation sql_slovak_cp1250_ci_as vs Slovak_CI_AS? I have a db set to sql_slovak_cp1250_ci_as and shared hosting supports only Slovak_CI_AS. ...
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SQL fulltext accent insensitive

I am using SQL Server fulltext containstable and the column which is indexed has collation Czech_CS_AS, so why when I have word "byt" it returns records with word "být" too. I thought that the ...
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Treating certain Arabic characters as identical

In Arabic we have characters like ا (alef) and أ (alef with hamza). Users write them interchangeably and we want to search them interchangeably. SQL Server treats them as separate characters. How ...
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sql server collation for arabic or hebrew and english and french

I have new sql server database which need to have support in 3 differnt languages which collation i need to choose if i want my database to support both hebrew or arabic and also english and also ...
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Installed SQL Server 2000 with wrong collation.. how to correct for entire server instance?

I installed SQL 2000 Developer (yes, old, don't ask) on my laptop ... with the wrong collation. Oops! It's showing Latin1_General_CI_AS, but it turns out I need to use SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS ...
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SQL Server collation mismatch

I have database server with collation: SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS I got database backup file which collation is: Latin1_General_CI_AS When I'm restoring this database and executing some SQL, I'm ...
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SQL Server 2008 collation arabic

We are currently having a problem loading arabic into a SQL Server 2008 database. We want to load بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ but in the database it changes to بِسْمِ اللَّهِ ...
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Is there a collation to sort the following strings in the following order 1,2,3,6,10,10A,10B,11?

I have a database with a VARCHAR column that contains integers of varying length. I want to sort them so 10 comes after 9, not 1, and 70A comes after 70. I was able do this with PATINDEX(), a CTE, and ...
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Dependant T-SQL comparison collation

Is there any way to set the collation for a string comparison based on an independent variable or column value? Something akin to SELECT COL1, col2 FROM [TABLE] WHERE COL3 LIKE '%string%' ...
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How can I extract a lessequal char from SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS?

When I create a table like this create table char_test( item varchar(10) collate SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS ) go I can store varchars containing ≥ insert into char_test values ('≥'); When ...
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How to change SQL Server collation

How could I change the SQL Server 2008 R2 Express Default Collation for the whole server and a particular database? Is there a way to do it using visual interface of SQL Server Management Studio? In ...
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Which collation should I choose for a muiti-language website?

Does a collation have any influence over a query speed? Does the size of a table change depending of the collation? If I want to build a website that must support all possible languages (lets take ...