sys.fn_helpcollations (Transact-SQL)

Applies to: SQL Server Azure SQL Database Azure SQL Managed Instance Azure Synapse Analytics Analytics Platform System (PDW) SQL analytics endpoint in Microsoft Fabric Warehouse in Microsoft Fabric

Returns a list of all supported collations.

Transact-SQL syntax conventions

Syntax

fn_helpcollations ()  

Tables Returned

fn_helpcollations returns the following information.

Column name	Data type	Description
Name	sysname	Standard collation name
Description	nvarchar(1000)	Description of the collation

SQL Server supports Windows collations. SQL Server also supports a limited number (<80) of collations called SQL Server collations, that were developed before SQL Server supported Windows collations. SQL Server collations are still supported for backward compatibility, but shouldn't be used for new development work. For more information about Windows collations, see Windows Collation Name (Transact-SQL). For more information about collations, see Collation and Unicode Support.

Examples

The following example returns all collation names starting with the letter L and that are binary sort collations.

Note

Azure Synapse Analytics queries against fn_helpcollations() must be run in the master database.

SELECT Name, Description FROM fn_helpcollations()  
WHERE Name like 'L%' AND Description LIKE '% binary sort';  

Here's the result set.

Name                   Description  
-------------------    ------------------------------------  
Lao_100_BIN            Lao-100, binary sort  
Latin1_General_BIN     Latin1-General, binary sort  
Latin1_General_100_BIN Latin1-General-100, binary sort  
Latvian_BIN            Latvian, binary sort  
Latvian_100_BIN        Latvian-100, binary sort  
Lithuanian_BIN         Lithuanian, binary sort  
Lithuanian_100_BIN     Lithuanian-100, binary sort  
 
(7 row(s) affected)  

See Also

COLLATE (Transact-SQL)
COLLATIONPROPERTY (Transact-SQL)
Collation and Unicode support