Re: Master Database Collation issue

From: Tibor Karaszi (tibor_please.no.email_karaszi_at_hotmail.nomail.com)
Date: 10/28/04


Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 21:29:02 +0200


> The question is how do I change master, tempdb, model etc from their existing
> SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS to Latin1_General_CI_AS ?

Read about rebuildm.exe, but note that it will scratch your system databases.

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Tibor Karaszi, SQL Server MVP
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"kalamos" <kmcclare@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:10o2hao690h096e@corp.supernews.com...
> Let me start from the beginning.
>
> SqlServer was installed with default settings which meant: SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS
> Later a third part application was added that created a database with this collation: 
> Latin1_General_CI_AS
> According to the vendor SqlServer should have been installed with the Latin1_General_CI_AS 
> collation settings.
>
> The question is how do I change master, tempdb, model etc from their existing 
> SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS to Latin1_General_CI_AS ?
>
> One solution was to install another instance of sqlserver with the proper collation and just copy 
> these databases over the ones that are in error.
> Bring up the server and "Business as Usual".
>
> Will this work? It seems to. What failures can we expect?
>    tks
>        ken.mcclaren@charter.net
>
>
>
> 


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