There are a couple of edits you’ll probably need to make to the individual scripts, for example, the collation you intend to use. The scripts have Latin1_General_CI_AS hard-coded.

Read all the accompanying documentation. Hopefully it will answer any questions you have about how to implement these.

And of course, if you have additional questions, my email is posted in the article.

Here it is… Enjoy.

Brian

http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2009/10/19/sql-server-change-collation-of-database-column-t-sql-script-consolidating-collations-extention-script/

Unfortunately, the documentation is only from my POV, and has NOT been beta tested against the masses.

I am emailing the article to Pinal Dave along with the scripts, but I have no control over when he has the time to review and publish.

For those of you that have urgent needs… you’ve got to realize, your email address is NOT posted, nor is mine. The back-end of Pinal’s blog filters out email address in posts. No way for me to know where to send. So, if time is of the essence, be a little diligent and refer to my posts on March 2nd and September 12th. My email address is obfuscated in the CONVERT() statement. Just copy and paste it in a Q/A window.

Really looking forward to your post. I think it will be great additional for readers for this blog. I will post it with due credit.

Kind Regards,
Pinal

I’m glad you got the issue sorted out. Incidentally, the code I posted above was only to reveal my email address. Nothing fancy, but it gets thru the spam filters, and I didn’t want any screen-scrapers to add me to their spam targets.

For all others, I will see if I can find the time to patch up the code and make it a bit more generic. Then I’ll write it up and pass it on to Pinal for posting, so that people can grab it a little easier. I don’t have a blog, so I’ll drop the scripts here.

I’ve actually managed to fix the problem. Our application has a built in ‘create database’ function which creates a copy of the existing database as a new one, including all the data in the tables. I changed the database collation to the correct one and when I ran the process it created a new database and assigned the default (correct) collation to all the columns.

Thanks for getting back to me though.

Cheers,
James

Thanks for the response. I have tried executing the code you posted but I just get a series of errors;

Msg 170, Level 15, State 1, Line 1
Line 1: Incorrect syntax near ‘×’.
Msg 168, Level 15, State 1, Line 1
The floating point value ‘427269616e277320656′ is out of the range of computer representation (8 bytes).
Msg 170, Level 15, State 1, Line 1
Line 1: Incorrect syntax near ‘×’.
Msg 168, Level 15, State 1, Line 1
The floating point value ‘6263696465726e20617420676′ is out of the range of computer representation (8 bytes).

I assume I’m doing something wrong..

Don’t know if this will get through but my handle is james.wishart and the domain is activa.com.au

Cheers,
James

It is correct, that automatic settings discards the comments and move to spam.

If you have any good idea about this subject, I encourage you to write down good small post about the subject and I publish as blog post with due credit to you along with your contact info.

Kind Regards,
Pinal Dave

Also, it seems that whenever I post contact information, the post gets discarded. So….

Please execute the following. The results will be painfully obvious.

SELECT CONVERT(VarChar(20), 0×427269616e277320656d61696c3a)
UNION ALL
SELECT CONVERT(VarChar(30), 0×6263696465726e20617420676d61696c20646f7420636f6d)

I realise this thread is a bit old but I too would appreciate a copy of the scripts you mentioned. Our older clients have databases in SQL_Latin1_General_CP850_Bin and we are starting to get problems. I have been trying to change them to Latin1_General_CI_AS but there are so many columns and dependencies it is a hopeless task to attempt manually (plus my qualifications lie more in accounting than IT…).

Thank you for any help you can provide.

James

I to would like to have a look at the scripts to create a level COLLATION database.

Could you please forward the script to me.

Much appreciated.

Mark

I am new to MSSQL sever 2005, I am practising on Adventureworks Databse, whose collation is ‘Latin1_General_CS_AS’ and each column of tables say for eg.. ‘Person.Address’ is having ‘Latin1_General_CS_AS’ I tried to change its columns by the method u suggested , but of no use.. Can u please help me in this regard… Thanks in anticipation..

Please suggest, how can we do this.
thanks,

Shyam

If this post shows up, execute the following. The results will be obvious.

SELECT CONVERT(VarChar(20), 0×427269616e277320656d61696c3a)
UNION ALL
SELECT CONVERT(VarChar(30), 0×6263696465726e20617420676d61696c20646f7420636f6d)