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title: "sys.fn_helpcollations (Transact-SQL) | Microsoft Docs" ms.custom: "" ms.date: "08/23/2017" ms.prod: "sql" ms.prod_service: "database-engine, sql-database, sql-data-warehouse, pdw" ms.service: "" ms.component: "system-functions" ms.reviewer: "" ms.suite: "sql" ms.technology:

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sys.fn_helpcollations (Transact-SQL)

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Returns a list of all supported collations.

Topic link icon Transact-SQL Syntax Conventions

Syntax

fn_helpcollations ()

Tables Returned

fn_helpcollations returns the following information.

Column name Data type Description
Name sysname Standard collation name
Description nvarchar(1000) Description of the collation

[!INCLUDEssNoVersion] supports Windows collations. [!INCLUDEssNoVersion] also supports a limited number (<80) of collations called [!INCLUDEssNoVersion] collations which were developed before [!INCLUDEssNoVersion] supported Windows collations. [!INCLUDEssNoVersion] collations are still supported for backward compatibility, but should not be used for new development work. For more information about Windows collations, see Windows Collation Name (Transact-SQL). For more information about collations, see Collation and Unicode Support.

Examples

The following example returns all collation names starting with the letter L and that are binary sort collations.

SELECT Name, Description FROM fn_helpcollations()  
WHERE Name like 'L%' AND Description LIKE '% binary sort';

[!INCLUDEssResult]

Name                   Description  
-------------------    ------------------------------------  
Lao_100_BIN            Lao-100, binary sort  
Latin1_General_BIN     Latin1-General, binary sort  
Latin1_General_100_BIN Latin1-General-100, binary sort  
Latvian_BIN            Latvian, binary sort  
Latvian_100_BIN        Latvian-100, binary sort  
Lithuanian_BIN         Lithuanian, binary sort  
Lithuanian_100_BIN     Lithuanian-100, binary sort  
 
(7 row(s) affected)

See Also

COLLATE (Transact-SQL)
COLLATIONPROPERTY (Transact-SQL)
Database collation support for Azure SQL Data Warehouse