@Sameer I know you said that the system was set to the correct collation, but just to be sure, please let us know the result from the following query:
SELECT db.[collation_name]
FROM sys.databases db
WHERE db.[name] = N'tempdb';
@Sameer I know you said that the system was set to the correct collation, but just to be sure, please let us know the result from the following query:
SELECT db.[collation_name]
FROM sys.databases db
WHERE db.[name] = N'tempdb';