https://www.pachadata.com/en/docs/howtos/dev/Recent content in Development on Rudi BruchezHugoenhttps://www.pachadata.com/en/docs/howtos/dev/collation-conflict/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://www.pachadata.com/en/docs/howtos/dev/collation-conflict/<p>If you restore a database onto a server whose default collation is different, two problems can arise:</p> <ul> <li>collation conflicts in cross-database queries that compare <code>CHAR</code> or <code>VARCHAR</code> columns, in a join clause for instance;</li> <li>collation conflicts in code that works with temporary tables.</li> </ul> <h2 id="fixing-the-temporary-table-problem">Fixing the temporary table problem</h2> <p>When you create a temporary table — a table whose name starts with <code>#</code> — the collation of its <code>CHAR</code> and <code>VARCHAR</code> columns comes from the default collation of the <code>tempdb</code> database. If you then compare those columns with columns from the current database, you get error 468: <code>Cannot resolve the collation conflict between...</code>.</p>