Rebuilding collation

[CatPlus]

Hello all:

I am trying to change my Collation Designator to Latin1_General Binary (Sort ID 50) on a brand new installation of SQL 2000 on a Windows 2000 Server

Following instructions of BOL, I am shutting down all SQL services and trying to apply changes and am getting following message...MS Knowledge base search brings no solution:

Cannot rebuild. Cannot copy Master. There has been a sharing violation. Source or Destination file may be in use.
Rebuild Master failed with erro 266. The copy functions cannot be used.

I am logged in as Admin... and no body else is connected!

Please help

 

[NilsBevaart]

If you want to rebuild your master database, you cannot even login yourself! This is a seperate process from a normal database restore.
Use the following:

Shutdown Microsoft® SQL Server™ 2000, and then run Rebuildm.exe. This is located in the Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\80\Tools\Binn directory.

In the Rebuild Master dialog box, click Browse.

In the Browse for Folder dialog box, select the \Data folder on the SQL Server 2000 compact disc or in the shared network directory from which SQL Server 2000 was installed, and then click OK.

Click Settings. In the Collation Settings dialog box, verify or change settings used for the master database and all other databases.
Initially, the default collation settings are shown, but these may not match the collation selected during setup. You can select the same settings used during setup or select new collation settings. When done, click OK.

In the Rebuild Master dialog box, click Rebuild to start the process.
The Rebuild Master utility reinstalls the master database.

Note To continue, you may need to stop a server that is running.

For more information, you can also look in Books online.
Good luck



Nils Bevaart