Chapter 1: System Procedures

sp_helplanguage

Description

Reports information about a particular alternate language or about all languages.

Syntax

sp_helplanguage [language]

Parameters

language: is the name of the alternate language you want information about.

Examples

Example 1

Displays information about the alternate language, “french”:

sp_helplanguage french

langid dateformat datefirst upgrade     name 
       alias
       months
       shortmonths
       days
------ ---------- --------- ----------- ----------------------- 
      ---------------------------- 
      -----------------------------------------------------------
      -----------------------------------------------------------
      -----------------------------------------------------------
1     dmy        1         0         french
      french
      janvier,février,mars,avril,mai,juin,juillet,août,septembre,
          octobre,novembre,décembre
      jan,fév,mar,avr,mai,jui,juil,aoû,sep,oct,nov,déc
      lundi,mardi,mercredi,jeudi,vendredi,samedi,dimanche

Example 2

Displays information about all installed alternate languages:

sp_helplanguage

Usage

sp_helplanguage reports on a specified language, when the language is given, or on all languages in master.dbo.syslanguages, when no language is supplied.

Permissions

Any user can execute sp_helplanguage.

Auditing

Values in event and extrainfo columns from the sysaudits table are:

Event	Audit option	Command or access audited	Information in extrainfo
38	exec_procedure	Execution of a procedure	Roles – Current active roles Keywords or options – NULL Previous value – NULL Current value – NULL Other information – All input parameters Proxy information – Original login name, if set proxy in effect