Ignoring accents while searching the database using Entity Framework

Question

I have a database table that contains names with accented characters. Like ä and so on.

I need to get all records using EF4 from a table that contains s

Answer 1

Setting an accent-insensitive collation will fix the problem.

You can change the collation for a column in SQL Server and Azure database with the next query.

ALTER TABLE TableName
ALTER COLUMN ColumnName NVARCHAR (100)
COLLATE SQL_LATIN1_GENERAL_CP1_CI_AI NOT NULL

SQL_LATIN1_GENERAL_CP1_CI_AI is the collation where LATIN1_GENERAL is English (United States), CP1 is code page 1252, CI is case-insensitive, and AI is accent-insensitive.