MDAC 2.5 SDK - OLE DB Programmer's Reference
Appendix B: Schema Rowsets
The COLLATIONS rowset identifies the character collations defined in the catalog that are accessible to a given user.
The COLLATIONS rowset contains the following columns.
| Column name | Type indicator | Description |
| COLLATION_CATALOG | DBTYPE_WSTR | Catalog name. NULL if the provider does not support catalogs. |
| COLLATION_SCHEMA | DBTYPE_WSTR | Unqualified schema name. NULL if the provider does not support schemas. |
| COLLATION_NAME | DBTYPE_WSTR | Collation name. |
| CHARACTER_SET_CATALOG | DBTYPE_WSTR | Catalog name containing the character set on which the collation is defined. NULL if the provider does not support catalogs or different character sets. |
| CHARACTER_SET_SCHEMA | DBTYPE_WSTR | Unqualified schema name containing the character set on which the collation is defined. NULL if the provider does not support schema or different character sets. |
| CHARACTER_SET_NAME | DBTYPE_WSTR | Character set name on which the collation is defined. NULL if the provider does not support different character sets. |
| PAD_ATTRIBUTE | DBTYPE_WSTR | "NO PAD"—The collation being described has the NO PAD attribute.
"PAD SPACE"—The collation being described has the PAD SPACE attribute. |
Default Sort Order: COLLATION_CATALOG, COLLATION_SCHEMA, COLLATION_CATALOG, CHARACTER_SET_CATALOG, CHARACTER_SET_SCHEMA, CHARACTER_SET_NAME