Collations & Character Sets

This lesson is a brief introduction of collations and character sets.

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Collation & Character Sets

A character set defines what characters MySQL can store.

A database may contain characters from non-English languages. While a collation set decides how strings are ordered. For example, languages often share characters. A character may occur at different positions in the alphabet of different languages. An example is the ü character, which occurs at different positions in the German, Swedish, and Finnish alphabet.

Connect to the terminal below by clicking in the widget. Once connected, the command line prompt will show up. Enter or copy and paste the command ./DataJek/Lessons/6lesson.sh and wait for the MySQL prompt to start-up.

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