{"id":1096,"date":"2008-01-28T08:33:25","date_gmt":"2008-01-28T08:33:25","guid":{"rendered":"\/blogs\/paul\/post\/Search-Engine-QA-11-How-to-design-a-global-ready-database.aspx"},"modified":"2017-04-13T09:52:04","modified_gmt":"2017-04-13T16:52:04","slug":"search-engine-qa-11-how-to-design-a-global-ready-database","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/paul\/search-engine-qa-11-how-to-design-a-global-ready-database\/","title":{"rendered":"Search Engine Q&#038;A #11: How to design a global-ready database?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><FONT face=Verdana><FONT size=2><br \/>\n<P>This kind of follows on from my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/paul\/just-how-long-should-you-make-character-fields-whats-the-longest-word\/\">previous post<\/a> about making sure&nbsp;you have character column lengths that can handle data from different countries (e.g. city names that may be longer in one country than another). 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For instance, the one for the Database Engine has everything you need (I&#8217;ve made these links to the latest online BOL entries on MSDN):<\/P><br \/>\n<UL><br \/>\n<LI><a href=\"https:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/Areas\/Epx\/Content\/500.htm?aspxerrorpath=\/en-us\/library\/ms191307.aspx\">Writing International T-SQL Statements<\/a><\/LI><br \/>\n<LI><a href=\"https:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/Areas\/Epx\/Content\/500.htm?aspxerrorpath=\/en-us\/library\/ms175180.aspx\">Working with Unicode Data<\/a><\/LI><br \/>\n<LI><a href=\"https:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/Areas\/Epx\/Content\/500.htm?aspxerrorpath=\/en-us\/library\/ms175508.aspx\">Working with Special Character Encodings<\/a><\/LI><br \/>\n<LI><a href=\"https:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/Areas\/Epx\/Content\/500.htm?aspxerrorpath=\/en-us\/library\/ms180878.aspx\">Using Date and Time Data<\/a><\/LI><br \/>\n<LI><a href=\"https:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/Areas\/Epx\/Content\/500.htm?aspxerrorpath=\/en-us\/library\/ms187582.aspx\">Working with Collations<\/a><\/LI><\/UL><br \/>\n<P>Check it out and save yourself some pain when your database\/application suddenly needs to support customers outside your home country.<\/P><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This kind of follows on from my previous post about making sure&nbsp;you have character column lengths that can handle data from different countries (e.g. city names that may be longer in one country than another). 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