COLLATIONPROPERTY

Transact-SQL Reference

Transact-SQL Reference

COLLATIONPROPERTY

Returns the property of a given collation.

Syntax

COLLATIONPROPERTY( collation_name, property )

Arguments

collation_name

Is the name of the collation. collation_name is nvarchar(128), and has no default.

property

Is the property of the collation. property is varchar(128), and can be any of these values:

Property name Description
CodePage The nonUnicode code page of the collation.
LCID The Windows LCID of the collation.
Returns NULL for SQL collations.
ComparisonStyle The Windows comparison style of the collation.
Returns NULL for binary or SQL collations.

Return Types

sql_variant

Examples
SELECT COLLATIONPROPERTY('Traditional_Spanish_CS_AS_KS_WS', 'CodePage')

Result Set

1252 

See Also

fn_helpcollations