it also gets a lot more difficult if you have any constraints on any of those 50 columns...unique constraints, indexes, defaults, etc could prevent the ALTER command from completing.... all those constraints have to be dropped first, then change the collation, and then recreate those indexes and constraints after you change the collation.
Lowell
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