In some scenarios we can find different SQL Server collations between the server instance and its databases. Douglas P. Castilho explains a simple way to correct the collations in a few steps.
2017-04-11
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SQL Server collation is an important setting when creating database objects. One of the best ways to ensure that collation issues do not happen is to ensure that the collation settings are properly specified in the script that generates the database objects - Siddharth Mehta demonstrates how to do this.
2016-10-07
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Changing Database Collation Through Primary keys, Foreign Keys, Default and Check Constraints and more.
2016-03-07
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2014-11-11 (first published: 2014-07-25)
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Most DBAs, myself included, install SQL Server with the default server collation SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS and all of our table columns get created using this default setting. This tip will look at the performance impacts of querying data with this setting as it compares to querying columns with the collation set to SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CS_AS.
2014-05-06
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2014-01-17
1,929 reads
2012-11-01
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2012-09-12
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2011-12-12
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2011-11-01
1,947 reads
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