How can I resolve the error message 'Cannot resolve collation conflict for equal to operation'?

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Issue/Introduction

Description:

When comparing two columns that have different collations, the following error may be observed:

'Cannot resolve collation conflict for equal to operation'

In Microsoft Sql Server, collation can be set at the column level.

This error message will come up when comparing two columns that have different collations.

For example:

SELECT ID
FROM ItemsTable
INNER JOIN AccountsTable
WHERE ItemsTable.CollationOneCol = ItemsTableCollationTwoCol

If ItemsTable.CollaationOneCol and ItemsTableCollationTwoCol have different collation, it will generate the error message "Cannot resolve collation conflict for equal to operation".

Solution:

To resolve the collation conflict at the query level, add the following keywords around the "=" operator.

SELECT ID
FROM ItemsTable
INNER JOIN AccountsTable
WHERE ItemsTable.CollationOneCol COLLATE DATABASE_DEFAULT = ItemsTable.CollationTwoCol COLLATE DATABASE_DEFAULT

Collation can affect the following areas:

1. Where clauses
2. Join predicates
3. Functions
4. Databases (e.g TempDB may be a different collation database_default than the other databases)

Environment

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Component: FTS