• Stuart Davies (1/17/2014)


    raulggonzalez (1/17/2014)


    Thanks for the question, but I have to disagree with one of the answers.

    I have a number of offline databases in one of my servers and the following query returns values for all of them

    select name, state_desc, DATABASEPROPERTYEX(name, 'Collation')

    from sys.databases

    where state_desc = 'OFFLINE'

    I can see that BOL states opposite, but if anybody else want to try and share the result, would be great

    Most odd - I have the same symptoms one one of my (2005) servers. 6 databases are off line - yet I get a collation for them.

    Any ideas why?

    Mine is a 2008R2 Standard SP2 ...

    Wow!! I just tried on another 2008R2 Enterprise SP2 and it does return NULL ...

    And SQL Server 2012 Standard Edition SP1 returns NULL...

    This is pretty weird!