Posted by Erland Sommarskog on 10/02/59 11:47

David Portas (REMOVE_BEFORE_REPLYING_dportas@acm.org) writes:
> The collations beginning with SQL_ exist for backwards-compatibility
> reasons. The Windows collations are preferred unless compatibility with
> version 7.0 is required.

One like to think so, but US English users are still offered an SQL
collation as a default when they install SQL 2005!


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