Update Collation of all fields in database on the fly

Question

We recently moved our database from our SQL Server 2005 server to our SQL Server 2008 server. Everything moved over fine, however now we are finding that we are getting col

Answer 1

How about:

DECLARE @collation NVARCHAR(64)
SET @collation = 'Latin1_General_CI_AS'

SELECT
    'ALTER TABLE [' + TABLE_SCHEMA  + '].[' + TABLE_NAME + '] '
  + 'ALTER COLUMN [' + COLUMN_NAME + '] '
  + DATA_TYPE + '(' + CASE CHARACTER_MAXIMUM_LENGTH 
        WHEN -1 THEN 'MAX' 
        ELSE CAST(CHARACTER_MAXIMUM_LENGTH AS VARCHAR) END + ') '
  + 'COLLATE ' + @collation + ' '
  + CASE WHEN IS_NULLABLE = 'NO' THEN 'NOT NULL' ELSE 'NULL' END
FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.columns
WHERE  COLLATION_NAME IS NOT NULL
AND COLLATION_NAME <> @collation