Vision4Web Blog » collation http://blog.vision4web.net IT Reviews, Downloads and more... Fri, 30 Jul 2010 20:18:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Change Collation On All Tables And Columns In MySQL with Phoca Changing Collation Utility http://blog.vision4web.net/2008/11/change-collation-on-all-tables-and-columns-in-mysql/ http://blog.vision4web.net/2008/11/change-collation-on-all-tables-and-columns-in-mysql/#comments Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:47:34 +0000 John Doe http://blog.vision4web.net/?p=8 I was working with lot of databases collated in latin1_swedish_ci lately. I needed to convert the structure to utf8 collation, but it was very time-consuming to convert all the tables and all the columns manually.

After some googling, I managed to find a PHP utility, called Phoca Changing Collation, which does all the dirty work in a few seconds.

Important: The utility doesn’t convert data, it only changes the collation of the tables and the columns, so if your database is full of non-latin characters, it will probably corrupt them.

Note: You may need to change the collation to utf8_unicode_ci in order to get the cyrilic characters displayed propertly.

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