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Configuring SQL Server Accent-Insensitivity

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21 Feb 2012CPOL7 min read 58K   389   9  
This article describes the steps to re-configure SQL Server so that queries return accent-insensitive results. It includes source code (using Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Shared Management Objects) to automate some of the steps in this procedure.
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