To change the collation of an database following commands can be used:
ALTER DATABASE [database name] SET SINGLE_USER WITH ROLLBACK IMMEDIATE
ALTER DATABASE [database name] COLLATE Newcollation
ALTER DATABASE [database name] SET MULTI_USER
For example , suppose if the name of your database is learningdb and you want to change the collation to the collation SQL_Latin1_General_CP1257_CI_AS, then following commands can be used:-
ALTER DATABASE
learningdb SET SINGLE_USER WITH ROLLBACKIMMEDIATE
learningdb SET SINGLE_USER WITH ROLLBACKIMMEDIATE
ALTER DATABASE
learningdb COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1257_CI_AS
learningdb COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1257_CI_AS
ALTER DATABASE
learningdb SET MULTI_USER
learningdb SET MULTI_USER
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