COLLATE (SQL Server Compact Edition)

Clause that can be applied to a database definition to define the collation.

Syntax

COLLATE < collation_name > 
< collation_name > :: = 
   < Windows_collation_name > 
< Windows_collation_name >:: = 
      CollationDesignator_< ComparisonStyle >
< ComparisonStyle > :: =
      CaseSensitivity_AccentSensitivity 

Arguments

  • <collation_name>
    Is the name of the collation to be applied to the database definition. The <collation_name> argument can be only a specified <Windows_collation_name>.
  • <Windows_collation_name>
    Is the collation name for Windows collation. For a list of Windows collation names supported in Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Compact Edition (SQL Server Compact Edition), see the "Remarks" section later in this topic.
  • CollationDesignator
    Specifies the base collation rules used by the Windows collation. The base collation rules cover the following:

    • An alphabet or language whose sorting rules are applied when dictionary sorting is specified.
    • A code page used to store non-Unicode character data.

    For example, Latin1_General and French are collation designators that use code page 1252. Turkish is a collation designator that uses code page 1254.

  • CaseSensitivity
    Specifies case-insensitive (CI). SQL Server Compact Edition supports this option only.
  • AccentSensitivity
    Specifies accent-sensitive (AS). SQL Server Compact Edition supports this option only.

Remarks

All databases that are created without specifying the Windows collation name are assigned Latin1_General, the default collation. Example: Latin1_General_CI_AS. This collation uses the Latin1 General dictionary sorting rules, code page 1252. It is case-insensitive and accent-sensitive.

Use the optional COLLATE clause to specify a collation different from the default. For example, to specify a Spanish collation, use a query such as:

CREATE DATABASE "SpanishDB.sdf" DATABASEPASSWORD '<MyPwd>' COLLATE Traditional_Spanish_CI_AS

The following table lists the supported Windows collation names. Ensure that the locale is supported on the device that the database is created.

Note

  Some collation values might not be supported on some devices.

Windows System Locale LCID (Locale ID) Default SQL Collation Code page

Afrikaans

0x436

Latin1_General_CI_AS

1252

Albanian

0x41c

Albanian_CI_AS

1250

Arabic (Algeria)

0x1401

Arabic_CI_AS

1256

Arabic (Bahrain)

0x3c01

Arabic_CI_AS

1256

Arabic (Egypt)

0xc01

Arabic_CI_AS

1256

Arabic (Iraq)

0x801

Arabic_CI_AS

1256

Arabic (Jordan)

0x2c01

Arabic_CI_AS

1256

Arabic (Kuwait)

0x3401

Arabic_CI_AS

1256

Arabic (Lebanon)

0x3001

Arabic_CI_AS

1256

Arabic (Libya)

0x1001

Arabic_CI_AS

1256

Arabic (Morocco)

0x1801

Arabic_CI_AS

1256

Arabic (Oman)

0x2001

Arabic_CI_AS

1256

Arabic (Qatar)

0x4001

Arabic_CI_AS

1256

Arabic (Saudi Arabia)

0x401

Arabic_CI_AS

1256

Arabic (Syria)

0x2801

Arabic_CI_AS

1256

Arabic (Tunisia)

0x1c01

Arabic_CI_AS

1256

Arabic (U.A.E.)

0x3801

Arabic_CI_AS

1256

Arabic (Yemen)

0x2401

Arabic_CI_AS

1256

Armenian (Republic of Armenia)

0x42b

Latin1_General_CI_AS

Unicode

Azeri-Cyrillic (Azerbaijan)

0x82c

Azeri_Cyrillic_90_CI_AS

1251

Azeri-Latin (Azerbaijan)

0x42c

Azeri_Latin_90_CI_AS

1254

Basque

0x42d

Latin1_General_CI_AS

1252

Belarusian

0x423

Cyrillic_General_CI_AS

1251

Bulgarian

0x402

Cyrillic_General_CI_AS

1251

Catalan

0x403

Latin1_General_CI_AS

1252

Chinese (Hong Kong)

0x20c04

Chinese_Hong_Kong_Stroke_90_CI_AS

950

Chinese (Hong Kong S.A.R.)

0xc04

Chinese_Hong_Kong_Stroke_90_CI_AS

950

Chinese (Macau S.A.R.)

0x1404

Chinese_PRC_90_CI_AS

950

Chinese (PRC)

0x804

Chinese_PRC_CI_AS

936

Chinese (PRC)

0x20804

Chinese_PRC_Stroke_CI_AS

936

Chinese (Singapore)

0x1004

Chinese_PRC_90_CI_AS

936

Chinese (Taiwan)

0x404

Chinese_Taiwan_Stroke_CI_AS

950

Chinese (Taiwan)

0x30404

Chinese_Taiwan_Bopomofo_CI_AS

950

Croatian

0x41a

Croatian_CI_AS

1250

Czech

0x405

Czech_CI_AS

1250

Danish

0x406

Danish_Norwegian_CI_AS

1252

Divehi1

0x465

Divehi_90

Unicode

Dutch (Belgium)

0x813

Latin1_General_CI_AS

1252

Dutch (Netherlands)

0x413

Latin1_General_CI_AS

1252

English (Australia)

0xc09

Latin1_General_CI_AS

1252

English (Belize)

0x2809

Latin1_General_CI_AS

1252

English (Canada)

0x1009

Latin1_General_CI_AS

1252

English (Caribbean)

0x2409

Latin1_General_CI_AS

1252

English (Hong Kong S.A.R.)

0x3c09

Latin1_General_CI_AS

1252

English (India)

0x4009

Latin1_General_CI_AS

1252

English (Indonesia)

0x3809

Latin1_General_CI_AS

1252

English (Ireland)

0x1809

Latin1_General_CI_AS

1252

English (Jamaica)

0x2009

Latin1_General_CI_AS

1252

English (Malaysia)

0x4409

Latin1_General_CI_AS

1252

English (New Zealand)

0x1409

Latin1_General_CI_AS

1252

English (Philippines)

0x3409

Latin1_General_CI_AS

1252

English (Singapore)

0x4809

Latin1_General_CI_AS

1252

English (South Africa)

0x1c09

Latin1_General_CI_AS

1252

English (Trinidad)

0x2c09

Latin1_General_CI_AS

1252

English (United Kingdom)

0x809

Latin1_General_CI_AS

1252

English (United States)

0x409

SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS

1252

English (Zimbabwe)

0x3009

Latin1_General_CI_AS

1252

Estonian

0x425

Estonian_CI_AS

1257

Faeroese

0x438

Latin1_General_CI_AS

1252

Farsi

0x429

Arabic_CI_AS

1256

Finnish

0x40b

Finnish_Swedish_CI_AS

1252

French (Belgium)

0x80c

French_CI_AS

1252

French (Canada)

0xc0c

French_CI_AS

1252

French (France)

0x40c

French_CI_AS

1252

French (Luxembourg)

0x140c

French_CI_AS

1252

French (Monaco)

0x180c

French_CI_AS

1252

French (Switzerland)

0x100c

French_CI_AS

1252

Galician (Spain)

0x456

Latin1_General_CI_AS

1252

Galacian (English - U.S.A.)

0x409

Latin1_General_CI_AS

1252

Georgian

0x437

Latin1_General_CI_AS

Unicode

German (Austria)

0xc07

Latin1_General_CI_AS

1252

German (Germany)

0x407

Latin1_General_CI_AS

1252

German (Liechtenstein)

0x1407

Latin1_General_CI_AS

1252

German (Luxembourg)

0x1007

Latin1_General_CI_AS

1252

German (Phone Book Sort)

0x10407

German_PhoneBook

1252

German (Switzerland)

0x807

Latin1_General_CI_AS

1252

Greek

0x408

Greek_CI_AS

1253

Gujarati (India)

0x447

Indic_General_90

Unicode

Hebrew

0x40d

Hebrew_CI_AS

1255

Hindi

0x0439

Indic_General_90

Unicode

Hungarian

0x40e

Hungarian_CI_AS

1250

Hungarian (Technical)

0x104e

Hungarian_Technical

1250

Icelandic

0x40f

Icelandic_CI_AS

1252

Indonesian

0x421

Latin1_General_CI_AS

1252

Italian (Italy)

0x410

Latin1_General_CI_AS

1252

Italian (Switzerland)

0x810

Latin1_General_CI_AS

1252

Japanese

0x411

Japanese_CI_AS

932

Japanese (Unicode)

0x10411

Japanese_Unicode

932

Kannada (India)

0x44b

Indic_General_90

Unicode

Kazakh (Kazakstan)

0x43f

Kazakh_90_CI_AS

1251

Konkani (India)

0x457

Indic_General_90

Unicode

Korean (Extended Wansung)

0x0412

Korean_Wansung_CI_AS

949

Kyrgyz-Cyrillic (Republic of Kyrgyztan)

0x440

Cyrillic_General_CI_AS

1251

Latvian

0x426

Latvian_CI_AS

1257

Lithuanian

0x427

Lithuanian_CI_AS

1257

Macedonian (FYROM)

0x42f

Macedonian _FYROM_90_CI_AS

1251

Malay (Brunei Darussalam)

0x83e

Latin1_General_CI_AS

1252

Malay (Malaysia)

0x43e

Latin1_General_CI_AS

1252

Marathi (India)3

0x44e

Indic_General_90

Unicode

Mongolian-Cyrillic (Mongolia)

0x450

Cyrillic_General_CI_AS

1251

Norwegian (Bokmal)

0x414

Danish_Norwegian_CI_AS

1252

Norwegian (Nynorsk)

0x814

Danish_Norwegian_CI_AS

1252

Polish

0x415

Polish_CI_AS

1250

Portuguese (Brazil)

0x416

Latin1_General_CI_AS

1252

Portuguese (Portugal)

0x816

Latin1_General_CI_AS

1252

Punjab-Gurmuhki (India)

0x446

Indic_General_90

Unicode

Romanian

0x418

Romanian_CI_AS

1250

Russian

0x419

Cyrillic_General_CI_AS

1251

Sanskrit (India)

0x44f

Indic_General_90

Unicode

Serbian (Cyrillic)

0xc1a

Cyrillic_General_CI_AS

1251

Serbian (Latin)

0x81a

Cyrillic_General_CI_AS

1250

Slovak

0x41b

Slovak_CI_AS

1250

Slovenian

0x424

Slovenian_CI_AS

1250

Spanish (Argentina)

0x2c0a

Modern_Spanish_CI_AS

1252

Spanish (Bolivia)

0x400a

Modern_Spanish_CI_AS

1252

Spanish (Chile)

0x340a

Modern_Spanish_CI_AS

1252

Spanish (Colombia)

0x240a

Latin1_General_AI_CI

1252

Spanish (Costa Rica)

0x140a

Modern_Spanish_CI_AS

1252

Spanish (Dominican Republic)

0x1c0a

Modern_Spanish_CI_AS

1252

Spanish (Ecuador)

0x300a

Modern_Spanish_CI_AS

1252

Spanish (El Salvador)

0x440a

Modern_Spanish_CI_AS

1252

Spanish (Guatemala)

0x100a

Modern_Spanish_CI_AS

1252

Spanish (Honduras)

0x480a

Modern_Spanish_CI_AS

1252

Spanish (International Sort)

0xc0a

Modern_Spanish_CI_AS

1252

Spanish (Mexico)

0x80a

Modern_Spanish_CI_AS

1252

Spanish (Nicaragua)

0x4c0a

Modern_Spanish_CI_AS

1252

Spanish (Panama)

0x180a

Modern_Spanish_CI_AS

1252

Spanish (Paraguay)

0x3c0a

Modern_Spanish_CI_AS

1252

Spanish (Peru)

0x280a

Modern_Spanish_CI_AS

1252

Spanish (Puerto Rico)

0x500a

Modern_Spanish_CI_AS

1252

Spanish (Traditional Sort)

0x40a

Traditional_Spanish_CI_AS

1252

Spanish (Uruguay)

0x380a

Modern_Spanish_CI_AS

1252

Spanish (Venezuela)

0x200a

Modern_Spanish_CI_AS

1252

Swahili

0x441

Latin1_General_CI_AS

1252

Swedish

0x41d

Finnish_Swedish_CI_AS

1252

Swedish (Finland)

0x81d

Finnish_Swedish_CI_AS

1252

Syriac (Syria)

0x45a

Syriac_90

Unicode

Tamil (India)

0x449

Indic_General_90

Unicode

Tatar (Tatarstan)

0x444

Tatar_90_CI_AS

1251

Telugu (India)

0x44a

Indic_General_90

Unicode

Thai

0x41e

Thai_CI_AS

874

Turkish

0x41f

Turkish_CI_AS

1254

Ukrainian

0x422

Ukrainian_CI_AS

1251

Urdu

0x420

Arabic_CI_AS

1256

Uzbek (Latin)

0x443

Uzbek_Latin_90_CI_AS

1254

Uzbek-Cyrillic (Republic of Uzbeckistan)

0x843

Cyrillic_General_CI_AS

1251

Vietnamese

0x42a

Vietnamese_CI_AS

1258