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Change the Instance Collation by Rebuilding Databases in SQL Server 2017

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As a part of my DBA activities, I do a lot of SQL Server installations every week. Most of the time, I install the instance with the default collation. A collation is a configuration setting in SQL Server that determines how the database engine should read the data. SQL Server has huge list of collations […]

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2022-12-26 (first published: )

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I have this data in my Customer table: 

CustomerID CustomerName
1          Steve
2          Andy
3          Brian
4          Allen
5          Devin
I run this code: 
SELECT
  t.CustomerID
, c.value
FROM
  ( SELECT
      CustomerID
    , STRING_AGG (CustomerName, ',') AS me
    FROM customer
    GROUP BY CustomerID) t
  CROSS APPLY STRING_SPLIT(me, ',') c;
What is returned?

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