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You can specify collations for each character string column using the COLLATE clause of the CREATE TABLE or ALTER TABLE statement. You can also specify a collation when you create a table using SQL Server Management Studio. If you do not specify a collation, the column is assigned the default collation of the database.

A collation specifies the bit patterns that represent each character in a dataset. Collations also determine the rules that sort and compare data. SQL Server supports storing objects that have different collations in a single database.

The quickest way to return the collation of a given table in MySQL is to run the following statement: SHOW TABLE STATUS LIKE '%Artists%'; Running this statement will return a whole bunch of columns that provide information about any matching table/s.

You can change the collation of any new objects that are created in a user database by using the COLLATE clause of the ALTER DATABASE statement. This statement does not change the collation of the columns in any existing user-defined tables. These can be changed by using the COLLATE clause of ALTER TABLE.

You can change the collation of any new objects that are created in a user database by using the COLLATE clause of the ALTER DATABASE statement. This statement does not change the collation of the columns in any existing user-defined tables. These can be changed by using the COLLATE clause of ALTER TABLE.

To view a collation setting for a column in Object Explorer Expand Databases, expand the database and then expand Tables. Expand the table that contains the column and then expand Columns. Right-click the column and select Properties. If the collation property is empty, the column is not a character data type.

To see the default collation for each character set, use the SHOW CHARACTER SET statement or query the INFORMATION_SCHEMA CHARACTER_SETS table. If COLLATE collation_name is specified without CHARACTER SET , the character set associated with collation_name and collation collation_name are used.

You can set the collation by adding the T-SQL COLLATE clause to the CREATE TABLE and ALTER TABLE statements. When you use those statements, you define the column and its properties, including any collation settings.

COLLATE is a clause applied to character string expression or column for textual data types such as char, varchar, text, nchar, nvarchar, and ntext to cast the string or column collation into a specified collation.

You can get the server collation in SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) by right-clicking the SQL instance, then clicking the Properties option and checking the General tab. This collation is selected by default at the installation of SQL Server.