Sybase Adaptive Server Configuration Manual page 108

Sort orders
Sort order name
Dictionary order, case
insensitive with
preference
Alternate dictionary
order, case sensitive
Alternate dictionary
order, case insensitive,
accent insensitive
Alternate dictionary
order, case insensitive,
uppercase preference
Spanish dictionary order,
case sensitive
Spanish dictionary order,
case insensitive
Spanish dictionary order
case insensitive, accent
insensitive
Scandinavian dictionary
order, case sensitive
Scandinavian dictionary
order, case insensitive,
uppercase preference
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Description
Case-insensitive dictionary sort order, with case preference for collating purposes. A
word written with uppercase letters is equivalent to the same word written with
lowercase letters.
Uppercase and lowercase letters are distinguished only when you use an
clause. The clause sorts uppercase letters before it sorts lowercase.
order by
Do not select this sort order unless your installation requires that uppercase letters
Note
be sorted before lowercase letters in otherwise equivalent strings for
Using this sort order may reduce performance in large tables when the columns
specified in an
order by
Case-sensitive alternate dictionary sort order with lowercase variants sorted before
uppercase.
Use with several of the Western European languages.
Case-insensitive and accent-insensitive alternate dictionary sort order.
Use with several of the Western European languages.
Case-insensitive alternate dictionary sort order with uppercase preference.
Use with several of the Western European languages.
Case-sensitive Spanish dictionary sort order.
Use with Spanish and for most Latin American locales.
Spanish case-insensitive dictionary sort order.
Use with Spanish and for most Latin American locales.
Spanish case-insensitive and accent-insensitive dictionary sort order.
Use with Spanish and for most Latin American locales.
Case-sensitive dictionary sort order.
Use with Scandinavian languages.
Case-insensitive and accent-insensitive dictionary sorting, with uppercase preference.
Use with Scandinavian languages.
To see the sort orders that are available, use
the character sets you plan to use. For more information on unicode sort orders
for utf_8, see Chapter 7, "Configuring Character Sets, Sort Orders, and
Languages" in the System Administration Guide.
clause match the key of the table's clustered index.
order by
to display the sort orders for
sqlloc
Adaptive Server Enterprise
order by
clauses.