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SQL Server Collation for System Center Products

A customer asks me, what is the collation for System Center products? Do we have a general collation for all products? And what is the BP for Tempdb? And how work the licencing for SQL Server in System Center (is SQL Server included)??? I answer just “OK, OK, I understand, I wil check those points…” I  search those information on… 

How to solve accent sensitive problems?

Some days ago, one of my customer claimed that searching for “Muller” doesn’t return “Mueller” and “Müller” as well! This is typically an issue due to the collation of the SQL Server database, but how to resolve this problem? The collation of the database is Latin1_General_CI_AS, so a case insensitive and accent sensitive collation. If a run the following query:…