International Considerations for SQL Server
Microsoft SQL Server 2005 provides product-wide support for storing and using international data, including support for Unicode, collations, special character encodings, complex scripts, and date and time formatting. The topics in this section describe using the international features of each of the primary components in SQL Server 2005.
In This Section
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International Considerations for Databases and Database Engine Applications |
Provides considerations for storing, manipulating, and programming with Unicode data and other special character encodings, date and time data, and collations. |
Describes SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services (SSAS) language features, collations and translations for analysis services objects, and translations on analysis services clients. |
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Explains the globalization factors to consider when using SQL Server 2005 Integration Services (SSIS), such as parsing routines across locales, setting locales for packages, using text mining with non-English languages, using fuzzy matching across languages, and performing string comparisons across languages. |
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Explains Unicode and collation considerations when using Replication. |
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Describes localizing SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services (SSRS) reports and Deploying Reporting Services in a global setting. |
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Describes Notification Services language features and Deploying notifications in a global setting. |
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Describes Service Broker language feature and collation considerations. |
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Describes the global language support for Full-Text Search. |
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Describes using the session language and displaying complex scripts in the user interface of the SQL Server tools. |