GTTools.com » SQL http://gttools.com Wed, 02 Mar 2011 16:52:20 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 How to change a column collation to the default database collation http://gttools.com/2008/11/change-column-collation-to-default-database-collation/ http://gttools.com/2008/11/change-column-collation-to-default-database-collation/#comments Tue, 04 Nov 2008 22:05:31 +0000 GAT http://gttools.com/?p=26 Continue reading →]]> If you for some reason needs to change the collation of a column in SQL Server to the default database collation, you can use the following syntax:

ALTER TABLE <table_name> ALTER COLUMN <column_name> <current_data_type> COLLATE database_default

Eg.:

ALTER TABLE myTable ALTER COLUMN myColumn TEXT COLLATE database_default

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