change case sensitivity after database set up

[Captain Flack]

I have a SQL Server database hosted with a web hosting company. The
SQL Server was clearly set up to be case sensitive, however, I want
this particular database to be case-insensitive.

I have searched high and low, the best suggestion I can find is to
reinstall SQL Server and select case-insensitive. But since this is
the web host's SQL, that isn't an option here.

With default language I can use the sp_defaultlanguage to change to
British settings (for example). Is there something similar I can use
to make just this database case insensitive?

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[Dan Guzman]

If you are using SQL 2000, you can change the default database collation
with ALTER DATABASE:

ALTER DATABASE MyDatabase
COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS

Note that a column collation is determined when the column is created so
changing the database setting will not affect existing tables. You'll
need to alter existing columns to the desired collation or recreate the
tables. The collation used for identifiers (table names, column names,
etc.) will take affect immediately.

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Hope this helps.

Dan Guzman
SQL Server MVP

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I have a SQL Server database hosted with a web hosting company. The
SQL Server was clearly set up to be case sensitive, however, I want
this particular database to be case-insensitive.

I have searched high and low, the best suggestion I can find is to
reinstall SQL Server and select case-insensitive. But since this is
the web host's SQL, that isn't an option here.

With default language I can use the sp_defaultlanguage to change to
British settings (for example). Is there something similar I can use
to make just this database case insensitive?

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[Captain Flack]

On Wed, 05 Nov 2003 13:36:34 GMT, "Dan Guzman"
<da*******@nospam-earthlink.net> wrote:

If you are using SQL 2000, you can change the default database collation
with ALTER DATABASE:

ALTER DATABASE MyDatabase
COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS

Note that a column collation is determined when the column is created so
changing the database setting will not affect existing tables. You'll
need to alter existing columns to the desired collation or recreate the
tables. The collation used for identifiers (table names, column names,
etc.) will take affect immediately.

Thanks, I will test this out. It is SQL 2000 so it looks to be exactly
what I was looking for :)

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