Hello.
There is no statement which is able to change the collation
and character set information in all tables at once. For single
table use an ALTER TABLE statement. See:
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/alter-table.html
Dave <davemg@stripped> wrote:
> MySQL General List,
>
> Server specifications:
> MySQL 4.1.3-beta, phpMyAdmin 2.5.7-pl1, PHP 4.3.8
>
> My specifications:
> MySQL beginner, PHP intermediate, HTML and CSS advanced.
>
> The situation:
> I have a database of users for my web site, in which all the text
> data that is inserted and obtained from MySQL via PHP is in UTF-8
> encoding. My web host helped me install MySQL 4.1 and phpMyAdmin 2.5.7
> because, from what I can see, they are a little more user friendly in
> how they let a user view and manipulate UTF-8 text.
>
> I had a number of tables with user data that I created myself, and I
> was sure to specify that for each, the "Collation" was in "utf_general_ci".
>
> Recently, I decided to add a forum for my users, using the PHP based
> "Simple Machines Forum" available here:
> http://www.simplemachines.org/
>
> This added a bunch of new tables, in which the "Collation" was the
> default setting of "latin1_swedish_ci".
>
> My next step is to take the user data I already have collected, and
> merge it with the new forum users table, so that my existing users can
> start use of the forum without having to re-enter all their information.
>
> The Questions:
> Before I start merging tables, I want to ensure that the whole
> database is consistent in it's use of character sets. This means I want
> to convert all the new tables to use "utf_general_ci" for collation,
> storage, and any other charset related setting.
> What MySQL command can I use to globally convert all the tables and
> field collation settings in the database to "utf_general_ci"?
> Are there other charset related settings that I should be concerned
> about? If so, how would I configure them to keep the database consistent.
>
> What I've done so far:
> I did a bit of research on what collation is by going to this web site:
> http://grace.evergreen.edu/mysqlDoc/manual_Charset.html
> But further searching via Google did not turn up any instructions
> for specific commands to make the changes I am looking for.
>
> Any assistance is much appreciated. Thank you.
>
> Dave
>
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