- we dont actually need this unicode cast, on py3k + linux it seems the

has_table issues are OK.  On OSX forget it.
- still some issues with PY3k + pyodbc + decimal values it doesn't expect, not sure

2 files changed, 2 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/lib/sqlalchemy/dialects/mssql/base.py b/lib/sqlalchemy/dialects/mssql/base.py
index 3c329fe5e..7621f4aab 100644
--- a/lib/sqlalchemy/dialects/mssql/base.py
+++ b/lib/sqlalchemy/dialects/mssql/base.py
@@ -1161,17 +1161,11 @@ class MSDialect(default.DefaultDialect):
                 pass
         return self.schema_name
 
-    def _unicode_cast(self, column):
-        if self.server_version_info >= MS_2005_VERSION:
-            return cast(column, NVARCHAR(_warn_on_bytestring=False))
-        else:
-            return column
-
     @_db_plus_owner
     def has_table(self, connection, tablename, dbname, owner, schema):
         columns = ischema.columns
 
-        whereclause = self._unicode_cast(columns.c.table_name) == tablename
+        whereclause = columns.c.table_name == tablename
 
         if owner:
             whereclause = sql.and_(whereclause,
diff --git a/lib/sqlalchemy/dialects/mssql/information_schema.py b/lib/sqlalchemy/dialects/mssql/information_schema.py
index c0d5d9168..7ac1b703e 100644
--- a/lib/sqlalchemy/dialects/mssql/information_schema.py
+++ b/lib/sqlalchemy/dialects/mssql/information_schema.py
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 # TODO: should be using the sys. catalog with SQL Server, not information schema
 
 from ... import Table, MetaData, Column
-from ...types import String, Unicode, Integer, TypeDecorator
+from ...types import String, Unicode, UnicodeText, Integer, TypeDecorator
 from ... import cast
 from ... import util
 from ...sql import expression