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International Considerations for SQL Server
SQL Server provides product-wide support for storing and using international data, including support for Unicode, collations, special character encodings, complex scripts, and date and time formatting. The topics in this section describe using the international features of each of the primary components in SQL Server.
Provides considerations for storing, manipulating, and programming with Unicode data and other special character encodings, date and time data, and collations.
Describes Analysis Services language features, collations and translations for analysis services objects, and translations on analysis services clients.
Explains the globalization factors to consider when using Integration Services, such as parsing routines across locales, setting locales for packages, using text mining with non-English languages, using fuzzy matching across languages, and performing string comparisons across languages.