dbt-labs / dbt-labs/dbt-adapters
[Feature] Update Column and related macros to be collation aware
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### Describe the feature
In https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-adapters/pull/1527 we found a couple things:
1. We don't really have a way for adapters to reason about collation today
2. Handling situations where we want to update the datatype while preserving collation is somewhat tricky
At present both databricks and snowflake adapters handle collation in their own way and most other adapters don't include _any_ handling at all.
At a minimum we should update the base `Column` class to include an optional `collation` property and relevant macros.
Beyond this we should think about whether we want to support:
1. collation as a model level configuration:
2. Syncing collation updates between tables i.e. if an upstream table's collation changes for a column should we cascade that downstream
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