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Collations & Character Sets

Explore the concepts of character sets and collations in MySQL to understand how different languages and characters are stored and sorted. Learn to query available character sets and collations using MySQL commands to manage database text handling effectively.

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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 ...