2022-06-29
441 reads
2022-06-29
441 reads
2022-03-30
529 reads
As a part of my DBA activities, I do a lot of SQL Server installations every week. Most of the time, I install the instance with the default collation. A collation is a configuration setting in SQL Server that determines how the database engine should read the data. SQL Server has huge list of collations […]
2022-12-26 (first published: 2020-08-03)
14,497 reads
2020-04-23
826 reads
2019-10-28
529 reads
2019-01-18
671 reads
2018-06-26
864 reads
2018-01-18
818 reads
Of course we all like our colleagues to think that we know everything there is to know about SQL Server Collations. However, the truth is that it is a rather complicated topic to fully understand and the cost of getting collation wrong can be great. If only one could ask certain questions on forums or at conferences without blushing. Help is at hand, because Robert Sheldon once again makes the complicated seem simple by answering those questions that you were too shy to ask.
2017-06-15
3,969 reads
In some scenarios we can find different SQL Server collations between the server instance and its databases. Douglas P. Castilho explains a simple way to correct the collations in a few steps.
2017-04-11
3,262 reads
By Steve Jones
The PASS Data Community Summit is back in Seattle this November, the 14-17, 2023....
Information security and privacy are key in today’s data-driven world. Sensitive data needs to...
By SQLBalls
Hello Dear Reader! Sorry this is so late, moving houses has gotten me a...
I am having great trouble creating a data pipeline using MariaDB connector 3 with...
Dear Friends, Please advise why would one of my Availability Group databases go into...
Access db wanting to move sql server, how much control does business have over...