Server and column collation conflicts in properties of a login

Problem:

Error: Cannot resolve the collation conflict between “Danish_Norwegian_CI_AS” and “SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS” in the UNION operation. (Microsoft SQL Server, Error: 468) when clicking “Securables” in properties of a server login.

Setup:

Server is set up with collation: SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS
The database, or more precisely, the columns are created with collation: Danish_Norwegian_CI_AS
Login is set up with default language: English

The following steps will reproduce the error:

1. See properties for the server-login:

2. Click “User Mapping”

3. Click “Securables”

4. Observe error:

Cannot resolve the collation conflict between “Danish_Norwegian_CI_AS” and “SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS” in the UNION operation. (Microsoft SQL Server, Error: 468)

Solution/Impact:

Can anyone say anything intelligent about this issue?

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2 thoughts on “Server and column collation conflicts in properties of a login

    • Jens Vestergaard Post authorReply

      Hi,
      Your suggestion is correct, if I was to have the problem in the context of a query.
      In my case, however, there is no way to force the collation, since it’s done behind the scene by Management Studio

      Best regards
      /J

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