Server.EnumCollations Method

Enumerates a list of collations supported by the instance of SQL Server.

Namespace:  Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo
Assembly:  Microsoft.SqlServer.Smo (in Microsoft.SqlServer.Smo.dll)

Syntax

'Declaration
Public Function EnumCollations As DataTable
'Usage
Dim instance As Server 
Dim returnValue As DataTable 

returnValue = instance.EnumCollations()

public DataTable EnumCollations()

public:
DataTable^ EnumCollations()

member EnumCollations : unit -> DataTable

public function EnumCollations() : DataTable

Return Value

Type: System.Data.DataTable
A DataTable object value that contains the collation information. The table describes the different columns of the returned DataTable.

Column	Data type	Description
Urn	String	The URN string that identifies the collation.
Name	String	The name of the collation. See sys.fn_helpcollations (Transact-SQL).
CodePage	Int32	The code page of the collation. See Code Page Architecture.
LocaleID	Int32	The locale of the collation. See sys.syslanguages (Transact-SQL).
ComparisonStyle	Int32	The comparison style made up of the sum of the following styles, Case insensitivity = 1, Accent insensitivity = 2, Kana type insensitivity = 64436, Width insensitivity = 131072.
Description	String	The description of the collation.

Examples

C#

Server srv = new Server("(local)");

DataTable d = srv.EnumCollations();
foreach (DataRow r in d.Rows)
{
   Console.WriteLine("============================================");
   foreach(DataColumn c in d.Columns)
   {
      Console.WriteLine(c.ColumnName + " = " + r[c].ToString());
   }
}

PowerShell

$srv = new-Object Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo.Server("(local)")

$d = new-object System.Data.Datatable
$d = $srv.EnumCollations()

Foreach ($r in $d.Rows)
{
   Write-Host "============================================"
   Foreach ($c in $d.Columns)
   {
      Write-Host $c.ColumnName "=" $r[$c]
   }
}

See Also

Reference

Server Class

Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo Namespace

Other Resources

Calling Methods

Managing Servers