Compatibility issues, Creating a database with a custom collation – Sybase 12.4.2 User Manual

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CHAPTER 9 International Languages and Character Sets

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Stop and restart the database server in order for it to recognize the new
collations and insert them into system tables SYSCOLLATION and
SYSCOLLATIONMAPPINGS.

Creating a database with a custom collation

If none of the supplied collations meet your needs, you can create a database
using a custom collation. The custom collation is used in indexes and any string
comparisons.

To create a database with a custom collation:

1

Create a custom collation.

You must have a custom collation in place to use when creating a database.

For instructions on how to create custom collations, see “Creating a
custom collation” on page 349.

2

Create the new database.

Use the

CREATE DATABASE

statement or Sybase Central, specifying the

name of your custom collation.

For example, the following statement creates a database named newcol.db
using the custom collation sequence

newcol

.

CREATE DATABASE ’newcol.db’

COLLATION ’newcol’

IQ PATH ’newcol.iq’

Compatibility issues

Prior to version 12.0, Adaptive Server IQ always used the ASCII sort order,
which sorts uppercase characters before lowercase. As of version 12.4.2, by
default IQ databases sort data in the same way as pre-version 12 Adaptive
Server IQ. The default applies these

CREATE DATABASE

options:

CREATE DATABASE

dbname

COLLATION ’ISO_BINENG’

BLANK PADDING ON

CASE RESPECT

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