Posted by Erland Sommarskog on 12/20/05 01:00

Sai (sbillanuka@gmail.com) writes:
> We have around 150 databases as case sensitive, and we are planning to
> change it to case insensitive. Each database has around 180 tables, I
> have changed the collation on DB, but changing collation manually on
> each column is a daunting process. Is there any script or tool which
> can assist in doing this.

I would probably bulk out data, and build the databases from scripts and
bulk back.

If you want to use ALTER TABLE, I think you still need to script all
indexes, as you cannot change the collation on an indexed column, if I
recall correctly. You could run queries on the system catalog to generate
ALTER TABLE ALTER COLUMN command. I'm not including this right now, as I
am in bit of hurry.


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