Specifies a collating sequence to be used for all fields in the database. Sequence-name is a name of your choosing; use this sequence-name in any subsequent statements that refer to this collating sequence. The OpenVMS National Character Set (NCS) Utility provides a set of pre-defined collating sequences and also lets you define collating sequences of your own. The COLLATING_SEQUENCE clause accepts both pre-defined and user-defined NCS collating sequences. If you do not specify a collating sequence, the default is ASCII (shown as "no collating sequence" in some displays).