MySQL includes the @@version system variable and the VERSION() function that enable you to find out what version of MySQL you’re running.
Here’s an example of using the VERSION() function:
SELECT VERSION();
This simply returns the version number and no more. Like this:
8.0.11
You can run the following query to return all the collations that are supported in your instance of SQL Server:
SELECT name, description FROM sys.fn_helpcollations();
Note that this returns quite a long list. Running that statement on SQL Server 2017 returns 3955 collations.
Below is a table of all collations supported in SQL Server 2017 (warning: It’s a long list!).
This list was returned by running the following code:
SELECT name, description FROM sys.fn_helpcollations();
That returns the following list of 3955 collations.
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This is a quick article to demonstrate how to use Transact-SQL to change the collation of a database in SQL Server.
Here’s the basic code:
USE master; GO ALTER DATABASE Solutions COLLATE French_CI_AS ; GO
This first changes to the master database, then we use the ALTER DATABASE statement to change the collation of the Solutions database to French_CI_AS collation.
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This article is Part 2 of the Microsoft Access tutorial.
Here’s what’s included in this article:
The Expression Builder is a component of Microsoft Access that helps you build expressions. It allows you to look up and build expressions without having to remember how to type the full expression.
To create a table in SQL Server using a query:
CREATE TABLE script (example below)Here’s an example:
In the world of databases, a view is a query that’s stored on a database.
The term can also be used to refer to the result set of a stored query.
To create a view, you write a query, then save it as a view.
To run a view, you query it, just like you’d query a table. The difference is that, the view itself is a query. So when you query the view, you’re effectively querying a query.  This enables you to save complex queries as views, then run simple queries against those views.