SQL Server ; working around collation mismatches Imagine the following scenario: I have two servers which are on two separate private networks. 

A linked server has been created, and there is a table in server A which has an updated version of the same table on server B. The updates are not extensive, essentially just a reassignment of some Boolean values. 

The connection between the two servers is reliable but relatively slow, and there is a collation mismatch between the two tables.

Is there a recommended or standard way of updating information between two servers with a collation mismatch?
You use the collate operator in the join.  Such as:

select &lt;column list&gt;
from dbo.firsttable f
join linkedserver.database.dbo.secondtable d 
   on f.name collate database_default = d.name collate database_default 


Of course, you can also specify a specific collation, such as: SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AI