Question

I am testing if my query works and cannot actually do it.

I have this query in my php file.

SET NAMES ‘utf8’ COLLATE ‘utf8_unicode_ci’

Now I want to do the opposite, something like “SHOW CURRENT COLLATE”.
Means I want to know what is NAMES COLLATE SET TO BEFORE MY QUERY AND AFTER MY QUERY.

Answer 1

You can select that info from information_schema:

SELECT `TABLE_COLLATION` 
       FROM `INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES` 
       WHERE `TABLE_NAME` = 'yourtablename'