This is one of the most useful posts on SO — Jamie S. Used this solution because I was working with two legacy systems using the same db so I wasn't sure if changing the collation of the tables would break functionality. If the same two fields are used together in other places comparisons, unions, coalesce, etc This is extremely useful. I'm using a local database and querying against a linked server and they have two different collations.
Obviously I can't change the collation on the linked server, and I didn't want to change mine locally, so this is absolutely the best answer. Unless you want to change the collation for each query, which is tedious and not optimally performing.
While it's a great answer, the accepted answer I feel is the better one. Show 10 more comments. Thanks marc that is exactly the type of thing i was looking for, one of the tables was different collation for some stupid reason! I will try altering to standard collation and see what happens. If i have 1 column as nvarchar which needs only english names and other column as russian letters, other column as japanese letters. How do I arrange this? Is there a single collation covers all these?
Show 1 more comment. Name I may not have the syntax exactly right check BOL , but you can do this to change the collation on-the-fly for the query - you may need to add the clause for each join. Ray Ray Update your query to Maheria Palak. Maheria 1, 2 2 gold badges 15 15 silver badges 32 32 bronze badges.
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Robert Robert 1, 4 4 gold badges 22 22 silver badges 29 29 bronze badges. Had the same issue, you first need to check your server and database property to see if they have same collation — madan. You will hit problems on indexes etc as I mentioned earlier.
If you don't have indexes on these columns you may be ok. Sign in. United States English. Ask a question. Quick access. Search related threads. Due to controlling the DB-level Collation of tempdb , it is then the default Collation for string columns in temporary tables global and local , but not table variables.
Due to controlling the DB-level Collation of master , it is then the Collation used for Server-level data, such as Database names i.
ADD statements. Default Collation used for string literals i. This Collation is only ever used when comparing strings and variables to other strings and variables.
The Collation used for Database-level meta-data, such as object names i. The Collation used for Database-level objects: tables, columns, indexes, etc. This group is the same across cultures. This group varies between each culture. The "support" only affects how the built-in functions interpret surrogate pairs which are how supplementary characters are encoded in UTF This ending can be added to any non-binary, version 90 or collation. Data is still stored the same, but there are no linguistic rules.
I have emphasized the words that were redacted earlier to make it clearer as to what was previously missing. While those two code pages are very similar, they are not the same. They differ only in the 0x80 — 0x9F range:.
I believe a combination of factors have contributed to this inconsistent, and often erroneous, usage:. Hello Daniel. Thanks for mentioning this and thanks to Erland for posting that info. I am planning on doing another post dealing with those two options and how they might be changeable.
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