SQL Collation Name
A single string that specifies the collation name for a SQL collation.
Syntax
< SQL_collation_name > :: =
SQL_SortRules[_Pref]_CPCodepage_<ComparisonStyle>
<ComparisonStyle> ::=
_CaseSensitivity_AccentSensitivity | _BIN
Arguments
SortRules
A string identifying the alphabet or language whose sorting rules are applied when dictionary sorting is specified. Examples are Latin1_General or Polish.
Pref
Specifies uppercase preference.
Codepage
Specifies a one to four digit number identifying the code page used by the collation. CP1 specifies code page 1252, for all other code pages the complete code page number is specified. For example, CP1251 specifies code page 1251 and CP850 specifies code page 850.
CaseSensitivity
CI specifies case-insensitive, CS specifies case-sensitive.
AccentSensitivity
AI specifies accent-insensitive, AS specifies accent-sensitive.
BIN
Specifies the binary sort order is to be used.
Remarks
This table lists the SQL collation names.
| Sort order ID | SQL collation name |
|---|---|
| 30 | SQL_Latin1_General_Cp437_BIN |
| 31 | SQL_Latin1_General_Cp437_CS_AS |
| 32 | SQL_Latin1_General_Cp437_CI_AS |
| 33 | SQL_Latin1_General_Pref_CP437_CI_AS |
| 34 | SQL_Latin1_General_Cp437_CI_AI |
| 40 | SQL_Latin1_General_Cp850_BIN |
| 41 | SQL_Latin1_General_Cp850_CS_AS |
| 42 | SQL_Latin1_General_Cp850_CI_AS |
| 43 | SQL_Latin1_General_Pref_CP850_CI_AS |
| 44 | SQL_Latin1_General_Cp850_CI_AI |
| 49 | SQL_1Xcompat_CP850_CI_AS |
| 50 | Latin1_General_BIN |
| 51 | SQL_Latin1_General_Cp1_CS_AS |
| 52 | SQL_Latin1_General_Cp1_CI_AS |
| 53 | SQL_Latin1_General_Pref_CP1_CI_AS |
| 54 | SQL_Latin1_General_Cp1_CI_AI |
| 55 | SQL_AltDiction_Cp850_CS_AS |
| 56 | SQL_AltDiction_Pref_CP850_CI_AS |
| 57 | SQL_AltDiction_Cp850_CI_AI |
| 58 | SQL_Scandinavian_Pref_Cp850_CI_AS |
| 59 | SQL_Scandinavian_Cp850_CS_AS |
| 60 | SQL_Scandinavian_Cp850_CI_AS |
| 61 | SQL_AltDiction_Cp850_CI_AS |
| 71 | Latin1_General_CS_AS |
| 72 | Latin1_General_CI_AS |
| 73 | Danish_Norwegian_CS_AS |
| 74 | Finnish_Swedish_CS_AS |
| 75 | Icelandic_CS_AS |
| 80 | Hungarian_BIN (or Albanian_BIN, Czech_BIN, and so on)1 |
| 81 | SQL_Latin1_General_Cp1250_CS_AS |
| 82 | SQL_Latin1_General_Cp1250_CI_AS |
| 83 | SQL_Czech_Cp1250_CS_AS |
| 84 | SQL_Czech_Cp1250_CI_AS |
| 85 | SQL_Hungarian_Cp1250_CS_AS |
| 86 | SQL_Hungarian_Cp1250_CI_AS |
| 87 | SQL_Polish_Cp1250_CS_AS |
| 88 | SQL_Polish_Cp1250_CI_AS |
| 89 | SQL_Romanian_Cp1250_CS_AS |
| 90 | SQL_Romanian_Cp1250_CI_AS |
| 91 | SQL_Croatian_Cp1250_CS_AS |
| 92 | SQL_Croatian_Cp1250_CI_AS |
| 93 | SQL_Slovak_Cp1250_CS_AS |
| 94 | SQL_Slovak_Cp1250_CI_AS |
| 95 | SQL_Slovenian_Cp1250_CS_AS |
| 96 | SQL_Slovenian_Cp1250_CI_AS |
| 104 | Cyrillic_General_BIN (or Ukrainian_BIN, Macedonian_BIN) |
| 105 | SQL_Latin1_General_Cp1251_CS_AS |
| 106 | SQL_Latin1_General_Cp1251_CI_AS |
| 107 | SQL_Ukrainian_Cp1251_CS_AS |
| 108 | SQL_Ukrainian_Cp1251_CI_AS |
| 112 | Greek_BIN |
| 113 | SQL_Latin1_General_Cp1253_CS_AS |
| 114 | SQL_Latin1_General_Cp1253_CI_AS |
| 120 | SQL_MixDiction_Cp1253_CS_AS |
| 121 | SQL_AltDiction_Cp1253_CS_AS |
| 124 | SQL_Latin1_General_Cp1253_CI_AI |
| 128 | Turkish_BIN |
| 129 | SQL_Latin1_General_Cp1254_CS_AS |
| 130 | SQL_Latin1_General_Cp1254_CI_AS |
| 136 | Hebrew_BIN |
| 137 | SQL_Latin1_General_Cp1255_CS_AS |
| 138 | SQL_Latin1_General_Cp1255_CI_AS |
| 144 | Arabic_BIN |
| 145 | SQL_Latin1_General_Cp1256_CS_AS |
| 146 | SQL_Latin1_General_Cp1256_CI_AS |
| 153 | SQL_Latin1_General_Cp1257_CS_AS |
| 154 | SQL_Latin1_General_Cp1257_CI_AS |
| 155 | SQL_Estonian_Cp1257_CS_AS |
| 156 | SQL_Estonian_Cp1257_CI_AS |
| 157 | SQL_Latvian_Cp1257_CS_AS |
| 158 | SQL_Latvian_Cp1257_CI_AS |
| 159 | SQL_Lithuanian_Cp1257_CS_AS |
| 160 | SQL_Lithuanian_Cp1257_CI_AS |
| 183 | SQL_Danish_Pref_Cp1_CI_AS |
| 184 | SQL_SwedishPhone_Pref_Cp1_CI_AS |
| 185 | SQL_SwedishStd_Pref_Cp1_CI_AS |
| 186 | SQL_Icelandic_Pref_Cp1_CI_AS |
| 192 | Japanese_BIN |
| 193 | Japanese_CI_AS |
| 194 | Korean_Wansung_BIN |
| 195 | Korean_Wansung_CI_AS |
| 196 | Chinese_Taiwan_Stroke_BIN |
| 197 | Chinese_Taiwan_Stroke_CI_AS |
| 198 | Chinese_PRC_BIN |
| 199 | Chinese_PRC_CI_AS |
| 200 | Japanese_CS_AS |
| 201 | Korean_Wansung_CS_AS |
| 202 | Chinese_Taiwan_Stroke_CS_AS |
| 203 | Chinese_PRC_CS_AS |
| 204 | Thai_BIN |
| 205 | Thai_CI_AS |
| 206 | Thai_CS_AS |
| 210 | SQL_EBCDIC037_CP1_CS_AS |
| 211 | SQL_EBCDIC273_CP1_CS_AS |
| 212 | SQL_EBCDIC277_CP1_CS_AS |
| 213 | SQL_EBCDIC278_CP1_CS_AS |
| 214 | SQL_EBCDIC280_CP1_CS_AS |
| 215 | SQL_EBCDIC284_CP1_CS_AS |
| 216 | SQL_EBCDIC285_CP1_CS_AS |
| 217 | SQL_EBCDIC297_CP1_CS_AS |
1For Sort Order ID 80, use any of the Window collations with the code page of 1250, and binary order. For example: Albanian_BIN, Croatian_BIN, Czech_BIN, Romanian_BIN, Slovak_BIN, Slovenian_BIN.