Collation defines how you sort and compare string values
For example, it defines how to deal with
- accents (
äàa etc)
- case (
Aa)
- the language context:
- In a French collation,
cote < côte < coté < côté.
- In the SQL Server Latin1 default ,
cote < coté < côte < côté
- ASCII sorts (a binary collation)