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comparing the varchar data type value

  • June 19, 2011 at 9:08 pm

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    glen.wass (6/16/2011)

    so Cheat is < than cheat

    It really does "Depend". What it depends on is the default server collation, the collation of a given column in the table when it was first built, and the collation hints in a query. "Cheat" and "cheat" will be treated as identical data using the installation default collation in SQL Server. Binary forms of collation will certainly operate the way you say. There are other collations where lowercase words will actually come first.

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