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I have a large mysql table that I think might be using the wrong character set. If so I’ll need to change it using
ALTER TABLE mytable CONVERT TO CHARACTER SET utf8
But since this is a very large table, I’d rather not run this command unless I have to. So my question is, how can I ask mysql what the character set is on a particular table?
I can call status in mysql to see the database’s character set, but that doesn’t necessarily mean all the tables have the same character set, right?
Try:
show create table my_table;