Microsoft KB Archive/843578

= Things to consider when you configure collation settings for SQL Server 2000 databases or SQL Server 2005 databases that are used by SharePoint Portal Server 2003, by SharePoint Server 2007, and by Windows SharePoint Services =

Article ID: 843578

Article Last Modified on 11/6/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
 * Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003
 * Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
 * Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 2.0

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INTRODUCTION
This article discusses things to consider when you configure collation settings in Microsoft SQL Server 2000 or in Microsoft SQL Server 2005 for the databases that are used by Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, by Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003, and by Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services.



MORE INFORMATION
The physical storage of character strings in SQL Server 2000 and in SQL Server 2005 is controlled by collations. A collation specifies the bit patterns that represent each character and specifies the rules that are used to sort and compare characters.

Use the Latin1_General_CI_AS_KS_WS collation for SharePoint Portal Server 2003 databases and for Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 databases. SharePoint Portal Server 2003 and Windows SharePoint Services use the Latin1_General_CI_AS_KS_WS collation because the Latin1_General_CI_AS_KS_WS collation most closely matches the Microsoft Windows NTFS file system collation.

The following are characteristics of the collation that is used by SharePoint Portal Server 2003 and by Windows SharePoint Services 2.0:
 * Case insensitive
 * Accent sensitive
 * Kana sensitive
 * Width sensitive

