what collations you use?

  • Hi,

    I'm always installing SQL Server 2005 with the default collation settings "SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS". I want to know what you guys do? go with default collations or something else?

    I know that it depends on the application, but if the application did not required any special type of collation settings then what you will choose?

  • We are using "Latin1_General_CI_AI" 🙂

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  • We mostly use "SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS" but we have some applications that require different. It's really depending on the requirements of the application what you would have....

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  • It also depends on the place of living. For example in Israel there is a need to store Hebrew characters without using Unicode, so you can find servers that use the windows collation Hebrew_CI_AS or the SQL Server collation SQL_Latin1_General_Cp1254_CI_AS. I don’t think that you’ll find many server that are configured to one of those collations outside of Israel:-). Of course there are other countries that have there own collations

    Adi

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