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COLLATIONPROPERTY (Transact-SQL)

Returns the property of a specified collation.

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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 one of the following values:

    Property name

    Description

    CodePage

    Non-Unicode code page of the collation.

    LCID

    Windows LCID of the collation.

    ComparisonStyle

    Windows comparison style of the collation. Returns 0 for all binary collations .

    Version

    The version of the collation, derived from the version field of the collation ID. Returns 2, 1, or 0.

    All new collation versions introduced in SQL Server 2008 (collations with "100" in the name) return 2.

    All collation versions introduced in SQL Server 2005 (collations with "90" in the name) return 1.

    All other collations, introduced in earlier versions of SQL Server return 0.

Return Types

sql_variant

Examples

SELECT COLLATIONPROPERTY('Traditional_Spanish_CS_AS_KS_WS', 'CodePage')

Here is the result set.

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