This is because Windows must support different currency, date, and time formats across the same character set, something SQL Server will never need to do.) (Note also that there are more Windows locales than SQL collations. SQL Server defaults to the Windows collation setting it detects during installation you should only override that setting if you need to match it to that of other machines with which your system will be communicating. A Windows collation comprises a character set and sort order, both of which are determined by the regional settings on a machine. It's important to distinguish Windows collations, or locales, from SQL collations. To ensure backward compatibility, this new collection encompasses the character sets (previously known as code pages) and sort orders supported by earlier versions of SQL Server.īy selecting a single collation type, you're able to specify three sorting and formatting characteristics that your SQL Server 2000 database (or its components) will use: SQL Server 2000 introduces SQL collations, a large collection of named collation types that specify different combinations of character sets and sort orders.
If I remember correctly, last time that I've checked something like 10 years ago, it was the Personal Edition that was installed when you were trying to install either the SE 2000 or the EE 2000 on WinXP and not the real SE or EE.Unlike the previous version of SQL Server, SQL Server 2000 lets you specify collations for almost any task, at virtually every level within a database - from table column to Yes, I've also seen myself people who have installed SE and EE 2000 on w7 however, from what I've seen, I don't know if these people have checked to see if they have got the real versions for SE or EE and not simply the Personal Edition. OK - I was able to install developer edition Microsoft SQL Server 2000 - 8.00.194 (Intel X86) 00:57:48 Copyright (c) 1988-2000 Microsoft Corporation Developer Edition on Windows NT 6.1 (Build 7600: ) Balmukund Lakhani Please mark solved if I've answered your question, vote for it as helpful to help other user's find a solution quicker - This posting is provided 'AS IS' with no warranties, and confers no rights. Only client components will be available for installation. Setup - Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Standard Edition server component is not supported on this operating system. I tried installing STD edition on my Windows 7 machine and It gave me warning.