sp_helpsort

Description

Displays Adaptive Server’s default sort order and character set.

Syntax

sp_helpsort

Parameters

None.

Examples

Example 1

For Class 1 (single-byte) character sets, sp_helpsort displays the name of the server’s default sort order, its character set, and a table of its primary sort values. On a 7-bit terminal, it appears as follows:

sp_helpsort

Sort Order Description 
-----------------------------------------------------------------
 Character Set = 1, iso_1
     ISO 8859-1 (Latin-1) - Western European 8-bit character set.
 Sort Order = 50, bin_iso_1
     Binary sort order for the ISO 8859/1 character set (iso_1).
Characters, in Order

-----------------------------------------------------------------
   ! “ # $ % & ‘ ( ) * + , - . / 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 : ; < = > ?
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   ` a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z { | } ~
   ! “ # $ % & ‘ ( ) * + , - . / 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 : ; < = > ?
   @ A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z [ \ ] ^ _
   ` a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z { | } ~

Example 2

On an 8-bit terminal, it appears as follows:

Sort Order Description 
-----------------------------------------------------------------
 Character Set = 1, iso_1
     ISO 8859-1 (Latin-1) - Western European 8-bit character set.
 Sort Order = 50, bin_iso_1
     Binary sort order for the ISO 8859/1 character set (iso_1).
Characters, in Order

-----------------------------------------------------------------
  ! “ # $ % & ‘ ( ) * + , - . / 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 : ; < = > ?
  @ A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z [ \ ] ^ _
  ` a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z { | } ~
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Example 3

For a Class 2 (multibyte) character set, the characters are not listed, but a description of the character set is included. For example:

Sort Order Description 
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Character Set = 140, euc_jis
    Japanese. Extended Unix Code mapping for JIS-X0201
    (hankaku katakana) and JIS-X0208 (double byte) roman,
     kana, and kanji.
    Class 2 character set
Sort Order = 50, bin_eucjis
    Binary sort order for Japanese using the EUC JIS
      character set as a basis.

Example 4

For case-insensitive character sets, the name and sort order ID of available case-insensitive sort orders is listed:

Name                   ID
-------------------------
nocase_eucgb           52
nocase_cp936           52
nocase_gb18030         52
nocase_eucjis          52
nocase_sjis            52
nocase_deckanji        52

Usage

Binary sort order is the default.

Permissions

Any user can execute sp_helpsort. Permission checks do not differ based on the granular permissions settings.

Auditing

Values in event and extrainfo columns from the sysaudits table are:

Event	Audit option	Command or access audited	Information in extrainfo
38	exec_procedure	Execution of a procedure	Roles – Current active roles Keywords or options – NULL Previous value – NULL Current value – NULL Other information – All input parameters Proxy information – Original login name, if set proxy in effect