Data base encodings

Hi,

I am looking to check and set the encoding of the database using sql
commands that work both for SQL-Server and JET.

something equivalent to the postgreSQL commands:

'SHOW server_encoding'

Thanks in advance,

Maartenmaarten (maarten.mostert@.wanadoo.fr) writes:

Quote:

Originally Posted by

I am looking to check and set the encoding of the database using sql
commands that work both for SQL-Server and JET.
>
something equivalent to the postgreSQL commands:
>
'SHOW server_encoding'

In SQL Server you can set the collation per table column if you like.
But there is a default collation for the server, which you can find
with

SELECT serverproperty('Collation')

The default collation for a database can be determined with:

SELECT databasepropertyex('Db', 'Collation')

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