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COLLATE keyword in Dynamics AX 2012

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Posted on by gyan chand kabra 380

Hi,

Can i use COLLATE keyword in select statement in  Dynamics AX same as in queries of the SQL server ?

if yes then please let me know the syntax of the select statement in DAX.

mainly collate keyword is used for the sorting or comparing of the data from the language other than English.

Thanks in Advance

 

Regards,

Gyan 

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    Faisal Fareed Profile Picture
    Faisal Fareed 10,796 User Group Leader on at

    Hi Gyan,

    As per my understanding by default SQL Server uses SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS which is not case sensitive. In SQL if you do want to use case sensitive search you have to change collation explicitly with column.

    AX installs with default collation of SQL server and is also not a case sensitive language (X++). You can change the collation of the databases used by AX using this link blogs.msdn.com/.../howto-change-collation-of-ax-database.aspx and then play around with your search. There should not be any need to use COLLATE keyword with columns once you have changed database collation.

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    Once i had issue where i wanted to compare data between two tables of AX and the collation of the columns which i am comparing were different  at SQL level.

    so i fetched data of one of the table to temp table in AX and then i compared the temp table column with other column in while loop for each record. This solved my purpose of comparing the data even though it has different collation.

    See if it can help you out.

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    Martin Dráb Profile Picture
    Martin Dráb 237,805 Most Valuable Professional on at

    Just look into documentation: Select Statement Syntax. There clearly isn't any COLLATE keyword.

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