2010/08/23

Filter results in SQL Server Management Studio may be case-sensitive

If you are working with a database that has a case-sensitive collation (e.g. Latin1_General_CS_AS), the filter function in SQL Server Management Studio will use this setting and the results will be case-sensitive.

Filter showing tables with Bitmap in the name:


Filter showing tables with bitmap in the name:



If this database had a case-insensitive collation, filter results for Bitmap and bitmap would be identical and would contain all four tables.

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  1. Thanks very much for the info, took me a while to spot that it was case sensitive and now I know why. I guess the only fix is to change the collation :(

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