diff --git a/doc/build/changelog/changelog_08.rst b/doc/build/changelog/changelog_08.rst
index 224690cc29..25a8d4c190 100644
--- a/doc/build/changelog/changelog_08.rst
+++ b/doc/build/changelog/changelog_08.rst
@@ -6,6 +6,20 @@
 .. changelog::
     :version: 0.8.1
 
+    .. change::
+      :tags: bug, mssql
+      :tickets: 2355
+
+      Part of a longer series of fixes needed for pyodbc+
+      mssql, a CAST to NVARCHAR(max) has been added to the bound
+      parameter for the table name and schema name in all information schema
+      queries to avoid the issue of comparing NVARCHAR to NTEXT,
+      which seems to be rejected by the ODBC driver in some cases,
+      such as FreeTDS (0.91 only?) plus unicode bound parameters being passed.
+      The issue seems to be specific to the SQL Server information
+      schema tables and the workaround is harmless for those cases
+      where the problem doesn't exist in the first place.
+
     .. change::
       :tags: bug, sql
       :tickets: 2691
diff --git a/lib/sqlalchemy/dialects/mssql/information_schema.py b/lib/sqlalchemy/dialects/mssql/information_schema.py
index 35ce2450e0..80e59d323e 100644
--- a/lib/sqlalchemy/dialects/mssql/information_schema.py
+++ b/lib/sqlalchemy/dialects/mssql/information_schema.py
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
 
 from ... import Table, MetaData, Column
 from ...types import String, Unicode, Integer, TypeDecorator
+from ... import cast
 
 ischema = MetaData()
 
@@ -22,6 +23,9 @@ class CoerceUnicode(TypeDecorator):
         # end Py2K
         return value
 
+    def bind_expression(self, bindvalue):
+        return cast(bindvalue, Unicode)
+
 schemata = Table("SCHEMATA", ischema,
     Column("CATALOG_NAME", CoerceUnicode, key="catalog_name"),
     Column("SCHEMA_NAME", CoerceUnicode, key="schema_name"),
diff --git a/test/dialect/test_mssql.py b/test/dialect/test_mssql.py
index 0dfda9015c..f1cd3fe85b 100644
--- a/test/dialect/test_mssql.py
+++ b/test/dialect/test_mssql.py
@@ -1949,7 +1949,7 @@ class TypeRoundTripTest(fixtures.TestBase, AssertsExecutionResults, ComparesTabl
                 engine.execute(tbl.delete())
 
 class MonkeyPatchedBinaryTest(fixtures.TestBase):
-    __only_on__ = 'mssql'
+    __only_on__ = 'mssql+pymssql'
 
     def test_unicode(self):
         module = __import__('pymssql')