From the course: SQL Server 2014 Essential Training
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Advanced options of database configuration - SQL Server Tutorial
From the course: SQL Server 2014 Essential Training
Advanced options of database configuration
- So, now, let's talk about some additional options you have when creating a database. Again, in SQL Server Management Studio, I'm going to right click on databases and select new database. And all the way to the left in this dialogue under select a page, I'm going to go to Options, and we can see we have quite a number of options when creating a database. Most of the time just leaving these to the default values is fine. But let's go ahead and talk about a few of them. The top one, Collation, is a rather large drop-down that allows us to select different things. Collation roughly translates to how we put things in order. So, often, when we query a database, we ask it to put the results in alphabetical order. Alphabetical order can be slightly different in different languages. So if you scroll through this list, you'll see a list of quite a number of different languages. The one language you will not see, surprisingly, is English. English is not an option. Instead, for English…
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