A collation is a set of rules that determine how data is sorted and compared for comparing characters in a character set.

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SQL fulltext accent insensitive

I am using SQL Server fulltext containstable and the column which is indexed has collation Czech_CS_AS, so why when I have word "byt" it returns records with word "být" too. I thought that the ...
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SQL Server: Collation of the resource database

I'm trying to use stopwords so that some words are skipped by the Full-Text Indexer. I can add those stopwords in the table sys.fulltext_stopwords. When trying to get a list of stopwords and ...
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What would make a MySQL database create tables in a different collation other than its default?

I am adding tables to a Wordpress database on my localhost and it is changing my collation from utf8_general_ci to latin1_swedish_ci. I'm kinda stumped because I'm not familiar with working directly ...
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Why not use SQL_Latin1_General_CI_AS for a global system?

What would be some really good reasons to not use the SQL_Latin1_General_CI_AS collation on a system which handles English, German, Japanese, and Chinese data? I'm having a really hard time finding ...
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Server Collation Change Error

I am using following command to change the collation of my SQL Server R2 (10.50.1600): setup.exe /QUIET /ACTION=REBUILDDATABASE /INSTANCENAME=MSSQLServer /SQLSYSADMINACCOUNTS=sa /SAPWD=**** ...
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Converting data from MSSQL Server to MySQL using MySQL Workbench and preserving special characters

I am trying to convert a MSSQL Server database with collation SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS into a MySQL database using MySQL Workbench. I can successfully complete the process without any issues being ...
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Custom doctrine default character set

In my.ini mysql file, i have this : [mysqld] collation-server = utf8_general_ci character-set-server = utf8 When i create my database with "doctrine:database:create", my collation db is in ...