A single quote ('') or an apostrophe ('') and hyphen (-) are considered last when SQL Server 2000 sorts data stored with Microsoft Windows collations. To illustrate this behavior consider the following example:
CREATE TABLE t1(c1 VARCHAR(10) COLLATE Latin1_General_CI_AI) INSERT INTO t1 VALUES (''car''''s'') INSERT INTO t1 VALUES (''cars'') INSERT INTO t1 VALUES (''carps'') INSERT INTO t1 VALUES (''car-s'') GO SELECT * FROM t1 ORDER BY c1 ASC GO