(SQL Server) Writing Language-Portable Transact-SQL

Ken discusses the enhanced localization features in SQL Server 2000 that make it much easier to write Transact-SQL code that is portable across languages.

discuss a few of the issues facing developers who wish to write Transact-SQL code that is portable across languages. The introduction of Unicode data types, collations, and various other internationalization and localization features in SQL Server 7.0 has made writing language-portable Transact-SQL code much easier than in previous releases. SQL Server 2000 enhanced the internationalization features in SQL Server 7.0 by adding such things as column-level collations, so the tools available to you as a developer have simply gotten better over time.