Locale information

You can determine locale information using functions such as PROPERTY, DB_PROPERTY, and CONNECTION_PROPERTY. The following table shows how to use these functions to return locale information about the client connection, database, and database server.

System function and parameter Return value 
SELECT PROPERTY( 'CharSet' );
 Character set of the database server. Usually the character set of the computer hosting the database server. 
SELECT PROPERTY( 'DefaultCollation' );
Default CHAR collation used by the database server for creating databases. 
SELECT PROPERTY( 'DefaultNcharCollation' );
 Default NCHAR collation used by the database server for creating databases. 
SELECT PROPERTY( 'Language' );
The locale language for the database server. 
SELECT DB_PROPERTY( 'CharSet' );
 Character set used to store CHAR data in the database. 
SELECT DB_PROPERTY( 'NcharCharSet' );
 Character set used to store NCHAR data in the database. 
SELECT DB_PROPERTY( 'MultiByteCharSet' );
 Whether CHAR data uses a multibyte character set (On=yes, Off=no). 
SELECT DB_PROPERTY( 'Language' );
 Comma-separated list of two-letter codes representing the languages supported by database CHAR collation. 
SELECT DB_PROPERTY( 'Collation' );
 CHAR collation name in use by the database server. 
SELECT DB_PROPERTY( 'NcharCollation' );
 NCHAR collation name in use by the database server. 
SELECT CONNECTION_PROPERTY( 'CharSet' );
 Client's CHAR data character set. 
SELECT CONNECTION_PROPERTY( 'NcharCharSet' );
 Character set of NCHAR data for the connection. 
SELECT CONNECTION_PROPERTY( 'Language' );
 Client language for the connection.