Data base encodings

Hi,

I am looking to check and set the encoding of the database using sql
commands that work both for SQL-Server and JET.

something equivalent to the postgreSQL commands:

'SHOW server_encoding'


Thanks in advance,


Maarten

Re: Data base encodings

maarten (maarten.mostert@wanadoo.fr) writes:
> I am looking to check and set the encoding of the database using sql
> commands that work both for SQL-Server and JET.
>
> something equivalent to the postgreSQL commands:
>
> 'SHOW server_encoding'

In SQL Server you can set the collation per table column if you like.
But there is a default collation for the server, which you can find
with

SELECT serverproperty('Collation')

The default collation for a database can be determined with:

SELECT databasepropertyex('Db', 'Collation')


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