Collation conflict using 2 versions of SQL Server

Question

I am working on 2 versions of SQL Server i.e 2005 and 2008 R2.

From 2008 R2 I have created a linked server which will connect to an older SQL Server 2005 instance.

I have one table on my server (2008) which is as below

members

id                  name     
0002320         AOne Enterprises Motihari
0002321         AOne Enterprises Siliguri

Another table which resides on remote server contain activity of each agent

id  member_code agent   rr_no   txn_date    amount

I fired a query below

select top 5 * 
from [192.168.6.3].sync.dbo.agents_log
where member_code IN 
      (select id from members where name like 'AOne Enterprises%')

I was trying to pull all activity log of AOne Enterprises through out the country which is in distributed database , so I need to create a link servers.

I got this error:

Msg 468, Level 16, State 9, Line 1
Cannot resolve the collation conflict between "SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS" and "Latin1_General_BIN" in the equal to operation.

Answer 1

not exactly sure what you need, but if its only collation issue you can do below

SELECT TOP 5 * 
FROM   [192.168.6.3].sync.dbo.agents_log
WHERE  member_code COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS 
IN (SELECT id
    FROM   members
    WHERE  NAME LIKE 'AOne Enterprises%')

I just added COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS , perhaps it work