COLLATIONPROPERTY (Transact-SQL)
Returns the property of a specified collation in SQL Server 2012.
Transact-SQL Syntax Conventions
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.
Collations with "100" in the name) return 2.
Collations with "90" in the name) return 1.
All other collations 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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