Sunday, February 26, 2012

Databases with different collation

Hi group,
we have databases now residing on different servers or instances with
different collations. We are considering bringing the databases on the same
server, keeping their respective collation.
Some of our applications access databases with different collations. We
have been using linked server and specifying "Use remote collation" (or
not). But when putting the DBs with different collation on the same server,
you loss this feature. To go over all the applications and specify the
collation on the query statement level is of course too big a task. Is
there a way to do such a blanket declaration on the database level?
Your responses are greatly appreciated.
Quentin
Quentin,
Have you tried using ALTER DATABASE...COLLATE command?
Thanks.
Vikram Jayaram
Microsoft, SQL Server
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