Working with Sinhala Letter in SQL Server

Being a Sri Lankan and SQL Server professional, I would love to see Sinhala font in SQL Server.

In SQL Server 2005 there is a matching collation for Sinhala called Indic_General_90_BIN. In SQL Server 2008,  there is a collation called Indic_General_100_BIN
Refer http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms188046.aspx

DROP TABLE fruits

CREATE TABLE Fruits

    (

      NAME NVARCHAR(50) COLLATE Indic_General_90_BIN

    )

INSERT  INTO [Fruits] ( [NAME] ) VALUES  ( N'අඹ')     

INSERT  INTO [Fruits] ( [NAME] ) VALUES  ( N'කොස්') 

INSERT  INTO [Fruits] ( [NAME] ) VALUES  ( N'නාරං')           

INSERT  INTO [Fruits] ( [NAME] ) VALUES  ( N'දං')     

INSERT  INTO [Fruits] ( [NAME] )VALUES  (N'ඇපල්')     

INSERT  INTO [Fruits] ( [NAME] )VALUES  (N'කෙසෙල්')

INSERT  INTO [Fruits] ( [NAME] ) VALUES  ( N'අන්නාසි')     

INSERT  INTO [Fruits] ( [NAME] ) VALUES  ( N'ලාවලු') 

INSERT  INTO [Fruits] ( [NAME] ) VALUES  ( N'කැකිරි') 

INSERT  INTO [Fruits] ( [NAME] ) VALUES  ( N'රඹුටන්')     

INSERT  INTO [Fruits] ( [NAME] )VALUES  ( N'දෙලුම්') 

INSERT  INTO [Fruits] ( [NAME] ) VALUES  ( N'නෙල්ලි')     

INSERT  INTO [Fruits] ( [NAME] ) VALUES  ( N'අලි පේර')

           

You can order them by the Sinhala alphabet. 

SELECT  * FROM    [Fruits] ORDER BY NAME

It also works with normal searching operations such as = and like.

SELECT * FROM Fruits WHERE NAME = N'රඹුටන්'

SELECT * FROM Fruits WHERE NAME Like N'ක%'

SELECT * FROM Fruits WHERE NAME Like N'අ%'