Symptoms
Assume that you use Microsoft SQL Server 2012 SP2 or SQL Server 2014 Master Data Services (MDS). When you try to process staged data as batches, publish data from the MDS Add-in for Excel, or just make modifications on attribute values in the Explorer view of Master Data Manager Web UI, a collation mismatch error that resembles the following is generated:
Cannot resolve the collation conflict between "SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS" and "Latin1_General_100_CS_AI" in the equal to operation
Resolution
The issue was first fixed in the following cumulative update of SQL Server.
Cumulative Update 4 for SQL Server 2014 /en-us/help/2999197
Cumulative Update 2 for SQL Server 2012 SP2 /en-us/help/2983175
Each new cumulative update for SQL Server contains all the hotfixes and all the security fixes that were included with the previous cumulative update. Check out the latest cumulative updates for SQL Server:
Status
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the "Applies to" section.
