SQL Server 2008 collation settings depending on the type of installation. Typically, the choice should be able to support SQL Server collation your organization most commonly used Windows system locale. To determine the operating system Windows locale on a Windows 2000 computer, click the "Regional Settings" in the Control Panel, then click "Advanced." In Windows Vista, use the "Format" tab. To determine the operating system locale on Windows 2003-based computer Windows Server, please click "Regional and Language Options" in the Control Panel, then click the "Regional Options" tab. In most cases, Windows system running on a computer user's locale and language requirements match. Therefore, SQL Server Setup automatically detects Windows system locale and select the appropriate SQL Server collation. For backward compatibility, the default English (US) collation was SQL_Latin1_General *.
SQL Server 2008 collations control the following:
- SQL Server code page used to store data in Unicode Africa.
- SQL Server controls how characters are sorted and compared the rules, these non-Unicode character data types are stored. SQL Server Setup will detect Windows collation on SQL Server with a computer, and then automatically select the instance collation for your SQL Server. Unicode and non-Unicode character sorting and comparing of characters may be different.
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