Need to create case sensitive Uniqiue Indexes

Hi,

How Can I create a case sensitive unique index so that A1 and a1 are treated
as different ?

I dont mind if I have to make a global DB change.

SteveSteve Thorpe (stephenthorpe@.nospam.hotmail.com) writes:
> How Can I create a case sensitive unique index so that A1 and a1 are
> treated as different ?
> I dont mind if I have to make a global DB change.

You should change the database to use a case-sensitive collation - and
maybe the entire server, since collation mix on the same server can
cause problems with tempdb.

You can achieve this in several ways. You can bulk out all data and
build a new database from scripts where you have changed the collation
and then bulk data back. You can also issue ALTER TABLE ALTER COLUMN
for all columns with character data. You also need to use ALTER COLLATION
SET COLLATION. (This latter command sets the default for future columns,
but does not affect existing ones.)

To change the collation for master, you use the rebuildm facility.

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