honza.mf (11/1/2012)
derek.colley (11/1/2012)
I'm afraid this question was just too obscure for me. It's a good question, sure, but why would I need to know this or reference it in any way? I mean, we have hundreds of databases, most of which actually use this collation, and this nugget has never, and will never come in useful.For example it's good to know there are accented letters in the area. There are both lowercase and uppercase letters.
Without tnis knowledge you are not able to understand string comparisons.
I'm with Derek on this one, it's a good question but very irrelevant, and I was very surprised to see that I was in the largest percentage who also all got it wrong. I don't understand where this would come in useful, we all know this collation has accented characters which it is sensitive to, and uppercase and lowercase characters which it is insensitive to, the collation name tells us this; however for the sake of understanding string comparisons, we have no use for knowing how many characters are between 0 and Z, we just need to know the collation type and have an ascii table handy.