Re: Changing the Collation without rebuilding the DB

Thanks Volker for your suggestion.

I tried it with my 'windows-1252' collation DB.

I did following things:

1. Converted the column data type from 'long varchar' to 'long nvarchar' to hold Non-English characters.

2. Used e.g. CSCONVERT( mytext, 'cp936' ) in FOR XML EXPLICIT Query

Although it didn't through the 'control character' error but the output was also not the actual data I have in DB.

e.g. I converted 'Sydney' to Chinese Simplified '悉尼' which saves perfectly in DB

But the output I got in the XML is "z6TE4Q==" which is not I need.

I will continue my research and request you to share your thoughts.

Regards

Ramendra