Collation Issues

  • Installed a new server with diffrent collation from old server as that was the requirement so as to match the collation with all other servers in our environment.

    After installing the new server when i try to check properties of any system databases i am getting a collation conflict error and i also tried restoring a database from old server and it restored with old collation, how do i resolve this issue?

    I have to restore all databases from old server and the database has to match collation with the new server.

  • How can i use different collation while restoring a database?

  • You can issue ALTER DATABASE... with COLLATE option but that will apply to only new objects. You can try using Collation Changer.

    You may find this article useful

    Pradeep Adiga
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  • I am trying to alter "msdb" database but i dont think it will allow to do for system databases and so how would i restore msdb with differnt collation?

  • you are right msdb db can not be altered. Instead of restoring this as different collation I would transfer contents like jobs, alerts/operators etc manually from old msdb db to new msdb.

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