Case sensitive issue CF7 & SQL 2005

Question

I had to rebuild a database from a backup recently. Now I am having a case sensitive issue in my queries that I did not have before.
The following use to work with Rockmart in lowercase even though Rockmart was in the table as all uppercase like so ROCKMART.
<cfquery name="updateAreas" datasource="mySource">
   UPDATE Property
   SET AR = 3610
   WHERE  City = 'Rockmart'
</cfquery>
The above has stopped working now the query must specify ROCKMART because it is in the table in all upper case.
My database option is set to SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS
Any ideas.
Many thanks for you help.
Brian

Answer 1

A collation can be specified at the server, database, and column level in SQL server.  The column collation will take precedence over the database collation.  Check that the collation for the column is case-insensitive.  You can use the query below to get the column's collation.
SELECT COLUMN_NAME, COLLATION_NAME
FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS
WHERE TABLE_NAME = 'Property'
    AND COLUMN_NAME = 'City'
You can get info on the collations supported by SQL Server at:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms144250%28SQL.90%29.aspx
You can change a column's collation if you need to, but you should be sure that this will not affect any other applications which query the same data.  Another option is to specify the desired collation in your query as suggested by glynjackson.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms190920%28SQL.90%29.aspx