SQL Server - Convert varchar to another collation (code page) to fix character encoding

Question

I\'m querying a SQL Server database that uses the SQL_Latin1_General_CP850_BIN2 collation. One of the table rows has a varchar with a value that includes the +/- character

Answer 1

Must be used convert, not cast:

SELECT
 CONVERT(varchar(50), N'æøåáäĺćçčéđńőöřůýţžš')
 COLLATE Cyrillic_General_CI_AI

(http://blog.sqlpositive.com/2010/03/using-convert-with-collate-to-strip-accents-from-unicode-strings/)