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Asked: 2026-05-17T06:16:29+00:00

This is not a calculation or a function, it is simply a command I

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This is not a calculation or a function, it is simply a command I have to add often which is difficult to remember.

I am often running queries on data across two databases (one old, one new) so I have to add “collate SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS” wherever values of one are being compared with values of the other.

For example…

...where db1.transactions.accountnumber = db2.clients.accountnumber collate SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS

Is there a way to create something like a ‘reserved word’ for this, so that I could type something like the following…

where db1.transactions.accountnumber = db2.clients.accountnumber coll

where ‘coll’ is the replacement for ‘collate SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS’

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  1. Editorial Team

    SSMS tools pack (free) has snippets which may do what you want.

    We use SQL prompt too which has the same.

    FYI: Have you considered COLLATE Database_Default which coerces collation to the current DB?

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