How to fix a collation conflict in a SQL Server query?

Question

I am working on a view, wherein I am using an inner join on two tables which are from two different servers. We are using linked server. When running the query I am getting

Answer 1

Adding to the accepted answer, you can used DATABASE_DEFAULT as encoding.

This allows database to make choice for you and your code becomes more portable.

SELECT MyColumn
FROM 
    FirstTable a
        INNER JOIN SecondTable b
            ON a.MyID COLLATE DATABASE_DEFAULT = b.YourID COLLATE DATABASE_DEFAULT