The SYSCOLLATION compatibility view contains the collation sequence information for the database. It is obtainable via built-in functions and is not kept in the catalog. Following is definition for this view:

ALTER VIEW "SYS"."SYSCOLLATION"
  as select 1 as collation_id,
    DB_PROPERTY('Collation') as collation_label,
    DB_EXTENDED_PROPERTY('Collation','Description') as collation_name,
    cast(DB_EXTENDED_PROPERTY('Collation','LegacyData') as binary(1280)) as collation_order;

See also

• Database-level properties
• DB_PROPERTY function [System]
• DB_EXTENDED_PROPERTY function [System]