KB2993529 - FIX: Business rule validation fails with collation mismatch error in SQL Server 2012 or SQL Server 2014 MDS

Applies To

SQL Server 2012 Developer SQL Server 2012 Enterprise SQL Server 2012 Standard SQL Server 2014 Developer - duplicate (do not use) SQL Server 2014 Enterprise - duplicate (do not use) SQL Server 2014 Standard - duplicate (do not use)

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:

Note

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

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Status

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the "Applies to" section.