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Gets the collation used by the server.
Namespace: Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo
Assembly: Microsoft.SqlServer.Smo (in Microsoft.SqlServer.Smo.dll)
Syntax
'Declaration
<DisplayDescriptionKeyAttribute("Server_CollationDesc")> _
<DisplayNameKeyAttribute("Server_CollationName")> _
ReadOnly Property Collation As String
Get
'Usage
Dim instance As IServerSelectionFacet
Dim value As String
value = instance.Collation
[DisplayDescriptionKeyAttribute("Server_CollationDesc")]
[DisplayNameKeyAttribute("Server_CollationName")]
string Collation { get; }
[DisplayDescriptionKeyAttribute(L"Server_CollationDesc")]
[DisplayNameKeyAttribute(L"Server_CollationName")]
property String^ Collation {
String^ get ();
}
[<DisplayDescriptionKeyAttribute("Server_CollationDesc")>]
[<DisplayNameKeyAttribute("Server_CollationName")>]
abstract Collation : string
function get Collation () : String
Property Value
Type: System.String
A string value that specifies the collation.
Remarks
A collation encodes the rules governing the proper use of characters for either a language, such as Greek or Polish, or an alphabet, such as Latin1_General, which is the Latin alphabet used by western European languages.