Hello,
Sorry, if I put it not in the right forum section ...
I'm new with Altiris Software Suite(s) and just played around with all the functionalities and features of the Client Management Suite 7.5.
During my discoveries of the software I tried SMPDiag too - just to see what it "says" about my configuration.
And it returns a problem about collation conflict between "Latin1_General_CI_AS" and "SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS". I figured out that the problem is (for instance?) in table dbo.sbs_ServerList in Colum "IPAddress" - this one has collation "SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS". (see attachment)
The database itself is generated with "Latin1_General_CI_AS". At the moment I just found this one ...
At all the system is working, but there are interesting sites about mixed collations and performance issues on searches with mixed collations, because of needed translations between Unicode- and Non-Unicode-Datatypes: http://www.olcot.co.uk/sql-blogs/revised-difference-between-collation-sql_latin1_general_cp1_ci_as-and-latin1_general_ci_as and this MS-KB http://support.microsoft.com/kb/322112/en-us .
I don't changed something manually on SQL-Server, I just used Altiris procedures (which are generated the tables).
I run SQL 2k8 R2 Express Version (just for testing), on Win2k8R2 Standard and on top Symantec Client Management Suite 7.5 SP1 - all are german language installations.
My questions:
- Is this a problem by design (which should be fixed)?
- Will it happen (possibly?) only with installtions with other locales than english?
- Should this mixed collation situation be changed and is it possible to switch the column collation without an impact for general functionality?
Thanx, Rene.