What is collation SQL Server 2012?

SQL Server collation refers to a set of character and character encoding rules, and influences how information is stored according to the order in the data page, how data is matched by comparing two columns, and how information is arranged in the T-SQL query statement.

What encoding does SQL Server use?

The default character encoding for a SQL Server database is iso_1, which is ISO 8859-1. Note that the character encoding depends on the data type of a column.

Does SQL Server support UTF-16?

SQL Server has long supported Unicode characters in the form of nchar, nvarchar, and ntext data types, which have been restricted to UTF-16.

What collation should I use for SQL Server?

However here are the settings we typically recommend: Set the default collation to SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS. Ensure that you have SQL Server running in Case Insensitive mode. We use NCHAR, NVARCHAR string types so all data is unicode, so no character set is specified.

How do you fix Cannot resolve the collation conflict between SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS and Latin1_General_CI_AS in the equal to operation?

SQL SERVER: Cannot resolve the collation conflict between “SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS” and “Latin1_General_CI_AS” in the equal to operation. Simply apply the default collation to the fields you are comparing.

What is SQL Server default collation?

Default server-level collation is SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS.

How do I use UTF-16 collations in SQL Server?

To use the UTF-16 collations available in SQL Server (SQL Server 2012 (11.x) through SQL Server 2017) to improve searching and sorting of some Unicode characters (Windows collations only), you can select either one of the supplementary characters (_SC) collations or one of the version 140 collations.

How do I change the default installation collation in SQL Server?

During SQL Server setup, the default installation collation setting is determined by the operating system (OS) locale. You can change the server-level collation either during setup or by changing the OS locale before installation.

What are supplementary character collations in SQL Server?

SQL Server 2012 (11.x) introduced a new family of supplementary character (_SC) collations that can be used with the nchar, nvarchar, and sql_variant data types to represent the full Unicode character range (000000–10FFFF). For example: Latin1_General_100_CI_AS_SC or, if you’re using a Japanese collation, Japanese_Bushu_Kakusu_100_CI_AS_SC.

What types of collations does SQL Server support?

SQL Server supports the following collation sets: 1 Windows collations 2 Binary collations 3 SQL Server collations