With each new release, SQL Server gets easier to manage. That doesn’t mean the product is growing simpler, however. To make upgrading a compelling prospect, Microsoft naturally introduces new features ...

Standard-defined Collations are collating sequences predefined for a character repertoire by some standards body. The SQL Standard requires a DBMS to provide a default Collation (based on the ...

[!INCLUDESQL Server Azure SQL Database Synapse Analytics PDW ] Collations in [!INCLUDEssNoVersion] provide sorting rules, case, and accent sensitivity properties for your data. Collations that are ...

Microsoft has updated Azure SQL Data Warehouse with the ability to change the default collation when creating a new database. Customers now have simple access to over 3800 database collations within ...

With the first public preview of SQL Server 2019, we announced support for the widely used UTF-8 character encoding as an import or export encoding, and as database-level or column-level collation for ...

This blog post describes how collations might change during an upgrade from a Dynamics NAV 2009 database to Dynamics NAV 2013, why they change, and how to determine the destination collation. “Since ...