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dastagirid

Posted Thursday, March 26, 2009 1:00 AM

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hi,

In my database I created one table and add one column.

column name is : column1 ..

when i used select query select .

select COLUMN1 FROM table ..

it showing data.. how can i change the database to case sensitive..
I am using sql server 2005 ctp expressedition..

regards:
giri...

Thanks
Dastagiri.D

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Eswin

Posted Thursday, March 26, 2009 2:54 AM

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So whats the proble it must not show column1 when give COLUMN1.

I dont think there is an option for that.

Tanx BigGrin

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rene-500237

Posted Friday, March 27, 2009 5:13 AM

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Hi,

you can change the server collation, check http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms179254.aspx

Regards,
René

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JamieX

Posted Friday, March 27, 2009 5:26 AM

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Note that you can also change your database, or table collation as well (if you don't want your entire server running that way)

So if you're using SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS, try SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CS_AS

ALTER DATABASE COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CS_AS

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ChiragNS

Posted Friday, March 27, 2009 6:21 AM

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Why do you want to change to case sensitive?

"Keep Trying"

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JacekO

Posted Friday, March 27, 2009 9:42 AM

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You do not have to change the database or column collation in order to use different collations for specific tasks. In fact you can mix collations to match your needs.

If you have your database built with case insensitve collation but would like to do case sensitive search just use the COLLATE keyword.

For example the first select will find all records where test code is 'ABC' regardless of the case - so abc, AbC aBc and such will be found. The second one will find only the record matching the case of the specified string 'ABC' in this case. The third example will mix the case sensitive and case insensitive search in one query.

SELECT * FROM Tests
WHERE TestCode = 'ABC'

SELECT * FROM Tests
WHERE TestCode = 'ABC' COLLATE Latin1_General_CS_AS

SELECT * FROM Tests
WHERE TestCode = 'ABC' COLLATE Latin1_General_CS_AS
OR TestCode = 'CBS'

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Pam Brisjar

Posted Friday, March 27, 2009 1:13 PM

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Note that changing server or database collation does NOT change the collation for pre-existing columns/data. There's only one way to do that:
Create a brand new empty database in the desired collation and migrate the data into that DB.

Simplest thing to do is to use the COLLATE option, though (as mentioned above).

MSSQLTIPS just had an article on that today: slightly different context but same issue

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MANU-J.

Posted Friday, March 27, 2009 6:42 PM

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Read about it at http://www.db-staff.com/index.php/microsoft-sql-server/69-change-collation

MJ

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