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Collation - A set of rules that determine how strings of characters compare with one another. Every character set has a default collation. In the default collation of the ASCII character set, for example, * comes before 1, 1 comes before 2, A comes before and B comes before C etc.
Source: Northwest Database Services, 06 November 2009 09:01:01, http://www.nwdatabase.com/database-glossary-t.htm#tablechild
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