Posted by Erland Sommarskog on 01/04/07 09:27

Jim Andersen (jba020@politiSLET.dk.invalid) writes:
> Sql server 2000 -> sql query analyzer
> select datename(dw,'01-01-2006')
>
> returns sunday
>
> Now I do:
> set language danish
> select datename(dw,'01-01-2006')
>
> returns sonday. But it should be søndag. Same goes for
> saturday/lordag/lørdag
>
> Tried substring'ing and ascii'ing/unicode'ing and it is AFAIK an o instead
> of the special danish character ø.
>
> Is this a "feature" or am I doing something wrong?

Rather bug. It appears to be fixed in SQL 2005.


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