Ross.M (11/1/2012)

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honza.mf (11/1/2012)

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Ross.M (11/1/2012)

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... 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.

This is one of the tricks of this question. Collation and ascii tables are two different things.

Collation ordering does not copy ascii ordering of characters, it's little bit more sofisticated.

I understand that, my point though, is that the order and total are irrelevant, we never need to know how many characters are between 0 and Z on a particular collation.