Raghavendra Mudugal (2/27/2013)
actually... mine does. I am using the below version
Microsoft SQL Server 2012 - 11.0.2218.0 (X64)
Jun 12 2012 13:05:25
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation
Express Edition (64-bit) on Windows NT 6.1 <X64> (Build 7601: Service Pack 1)
and the model database's default collation is "Latin1_General_CI_AI" and when installing the sql express and under server configuration it was default selected
so i guess it mainly depends on what you select in the core setup, and Microsoft has made this as the default choice in the setup.
Interesting. I wonder if this is a new thing in SQL 2012, or maybe a difference between 32-bit and 64-bit - I'm still on 2008R2 32 bit and the default for both developer edition and express edition is CI_AS (although when I picked up the 2008R2 version of AdventureWorks it had a database collation Latin1_General_CI_AI). Or it may even be a difference between different countries.
Tom