SQL2005 Collation Problem Between Fn_ListExtendedProperty And Information_schema.Tables ?
Apr 25, 2008
Hi,
we've just installed SQL2005 and, as expected, are hitting problems with collation settings.
We have made sure that the collation of our new server is the same as the old (working) SQL2000 server (both are Latin1_General_CI_AS) but a function that works fine on the 2000 box just doesn't work on the 2005 box.
The problem is this...
Code Snippet
select *
from information_schema.[tables] as t
left join :: fn_ListExtendedProperty('MS_Description','user','dbo','table',null,null,null) as xp on ( xp.objname = t.table_name )
...where that string comparison on "table_name" results in...
"Cannot resolve the collation conflict between "Latin1_General_CI_AS" and "Latin1_General_CI_AI" in the equal to operation."
Now... I can't see where the "Latin1_General_CI_AI" is coming from. The two data sources are both "system" sources, so should, I would have thought, been the same. If I do...
execute sp_help "information_schema.tables"
...all the columns are Latin1_General_CI_AS. If I do...
execute sp_help fn_ListExtendedProperty
...the same collation is returned for all columns.
I've checked everything I can think of (server, master, tempdb, etc.), and everything seems to be "AS".
Where might this "AI" collation be defined ? We have only just installed 2005, so a re-install, while a pain, is not a massive problem, but what should we check/change ?
from SQL2005 information_schema, I don't see anything related to default constraint.
So, I still need the old way to use old stuff such as from sysobjects sobj inner join syscolumns scolumn. I need to check existing 3000 databases to drop any possible default for tableA.columnB's default and then add a new one.
I thought SQL2005 will stop let us to query system table to retrieve table structure info including default, but only via information_schema? :rolleyes: thanks David
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I tried :
select table_name from INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES where table_schema='CIT'....
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it give me 0 result, but if I login as CIT, then
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"
Cannot resolve collation conflict for equal to operation."
The query is as follows...
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