Collation is one of those settings in SQL Server that most of the developers would rather avoid understanding and just go with the defaults. At some point during the production life of an application, collations
The thing about collations is that although database have it's own collation, every table, and every column can have it's own collation. If not specified it takes the default of it's parent object, but can be different. When you change collation of database, it will be new default for...
Support for UTF-8 character encodingSupports UTF-8 for import and export encoding, and as database-level or column-level collation for string data. Support includes PolyBase external tables, and Always Encrypted (when not used with Enclaves). SeeCollation and Unicode Support. ...
In addition, this release of Data Migration Assistant provides bug fixes and improvements for the following issues:Fixed CPU utilization calculation causing incorrect SKU recommendation results. Fixed case-sensitive collation issue causing data collection to fail during SKU recommendation. Fixed accessibility...
See Collation and Unicode Support.Language extensionsExpand table New feature or updateDetails New Java language SDK Simplifies the development of Java programs that can be run from SQL Server. See Microsoft Extensibility SDK for Java for SQL Server. Java language SDK is open source The Microsoft...
Support for UTF-8 character encodingSupports UTF-8 for import and export encoding, and as database-level or column-level collation for string data. Support includes PolyBase external tables, and Always Encrypted (when not used with Enclaves). SeeCollation and Unicode Support. ...
What is “with (nolock)” in SQL Server? Can someone explain the implications of usingwith (nolock)on queries, when you should/shouldn't use it? For example, if you have a banking application with high transaction rates and a lot of data in certain tables, in what types of queries wo...
UTF-8 supportSQL Server 2019 introduces full support for the widely used UTF-8 character encoding as an import or export encoding, and as a database-level or column-level collation for string data (charandvarchardata types). Choosing the UTF-8 encoding can significantly reduce the storage foot...
For more information, see Collation Precedence (Transact-SQL). Limitations For information on limitations of function types and platforms, see CREATE FUNCTION. See also CREATE FUNCTION (Transact-SQL) Deterministic and Nondeterministic Functions Using Stored Procedures (MDX)...
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