After installation of SQL Server If you need to change collation, you can do using the below commands.
This code may harmful for your environment Please test on separate environment.
--->> Server collation change sqlservr -m -T4022 -T3659 -s"SQL2017" -q"SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AI" /* [-m] single user admin mode [-T] trace flag turned on at startup [-s] sql server instance name [-q] new collation to be applied In this example, we used two trace flags: T4022: Trace Flag 4022: Bypass startup procedures in SQL Server. T3569: Trace Flag 3569: Enables logging all errors to errorlog during server startup. */