A Collation compared two strings like, if a word is greater than another one, and sort accordingly. If you are using “latin1” Character set, you can use “latin1_swedish_ci” Collation. You have to choose right collation because wrong collation may affect your database performance.
A collation comprises rules that specify how characters can be compared for sorting. Collations rules can be locale-specific: the proper order of two characters varies from language to language. Choosing a character set and collation comes down to whether your application is internationalized or not. If not, what locale are you targeting?
The database is latin1_general_ci now and I want to change collation to utf8mb4_general_ci. Is there any setting in PhpMyAdmin to change collation of database, table, column? Rather than changing ...
A database has a default collation (which defaults to the collation for the server). The default collation for the database will be applied to any column you add to a table, UNLESS you explicitly specify a collation at the column level.
MySQL has 4 levels of collation: server, database, table, column. If you change the collation of the server, database or table, you don't change the setting for each column, but you change the default collations.
225 Our previous programmer set the wrong collation in a table (Mysql). He set it up with Latin collation, when it should be UTF8, and now I have issues. Every record with Chinese and Japan character turn to ??? character. Is possible to change collation and get back the detail of character?
Cannot resolve the collation conflict between "SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS" and "Arabic_CI_AS" in the equal to operation. I don't know much about collation. Searching through internet I find solutions to use COLLATE, but the concept of COLLATE is not clear to me. Will it change anything for any of the databases?
I did change the collation of the source database in general to Latin1_General_CI_AS using the SQL Server Management Studio. But the tables and columns inside remains with the old collation.
Per Microsoft, if your Windows locale is any English speaking country (except the US) your default SQL server collation during setup is: Latin1_General_CI_AS, but in the US it is still SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS for backward compatibility. New databases take the system collation by default (unless you override), etc...
22 Alter Collation I need to change the collation of one of our databases on a particular server from Latin1_General_CI_AS to SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AI so that it matches the rest of our databases. The Problem However, when I attempt to do this, I get the following error: ALTER DATABASE failed.
