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How can we check the default character sets of a particular MySQL database?
Following is the query to check default character set of the particular MySQL database −
mysql> SELECT SCHEMA_NAME 'DatabaseName', default_character_set_name 'Charset' FROM information_schema.SCHEMATA where schema_name = 'db_name';
Example
For example, the query below will return the default character set of a database named ‘Sample’ −
mysql> SELECT SCHEMA_NAME 'DatabaseName', default_character_set_name 'Charset' FROM information_schema.SCHEMATA where schema_name = 'Sample'; +----------------+---------+ | DatabaseName | Charset | +----------------+---------+ | Sample | latin1 | +----------------+---------+ 1 row in set (0.00 sec)
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