>I have no idea what that is. Actually I had to switch back to SWEFIN collation because the diacritics are sorted differently i GERMAN. SWEFIN behaves like SQL-Server collate Finnish_Swedish_CI_AI. Still it doesn't separate V and W. I would like it to behave like SQL_SwedishStd_Pref_CP1_CI_AS.

Try out the collate sequences
UNIQWT && Unique Weight, soory for the mistype earlier
GENERAL

and perhaps play a bit with the codepages used -
I just wonder, why that such a mistake would not have surfaced before.

regards

thomas