I want to search my database for the character Ä° - "latin capital letter i with dot above (U+0130)" - and replace it with a regular I (U+0049).
For example, I want to transform "SÄ°NG" to "SING".
The database collation is utf8mb4_unicode_ci.
I can find the characters using COLLATE utf8mb4_bin
SELECT * FROM `benches` WHERE `inscription` LIKE '%Ä°%' COLLATE utf8mb4_bin
But I can't replace it.
UPDATE `benches` SET inscription = REPLACE(inscription, 'Ä°', 'I') WHERE INSTR(inscription, 'Ä°') > 0 COLLATE utf8mb4_bin
I get the error
#1253 - COLLATION 'utf8mb4_bin' is not valid for CHARACTER SET 'latin1'
Which is weird because the database and column are definitely utf8mb4_unicode_ci
So, what magic invocation do I need to search and replace a specific Unicode character from within a string?
The quick fix might be
UPDATE `benches`
SET inscription = REPLACE(inscription, _utf8mb4'Ä°' COLLATE utf8mb4_bin, 'I')
WHERE INSTR(inscription, _utf8mb4'Ä°' COLLATE utf8mb4_bin) > 0
A better fix might be to execute this after connecting:
SET NAMES utf8mb4;
If neither of these work, please provide a test case that includes creating and populating a table, plus the UPDATE. It may take some experimentation to conjure up another potential solution.
I have had success with a query like:
UPDATE `benches`
SET inscription = REPLACE(inscription, 'Ä°', 'I')
WHERE inscription LIKE '%Ä°%' COLLATE utf8mb4_bin;
I have got a problem with a simple Select Query and special chars. I want to select the name Änne.
SELECT * FROM `names` WHERE `name` = 'Änne'
utf8_general_ci
Änne
Anne
okay, ...
utf8 general ci is a very simple collation. What it does it just
removes all accents then converts to upper case and uses the code of this sort of "base letter" result letter to compare.
http://forums.mysql.com/read.php?103,187048,188748
utf8_unicode_ci
Änne
Anne
why?
utf8_bin
Änne
utf8_bin seems to be the right choice at this point, but i have to do my search case insensitiv.
SELECT * FROM `names` WHERE `name` = 'änne'
utf8_bin
none
Is there no way to do so?
I could use php ucwords() to uppercase the first letters, but i would prefer to find a DB solution.
edit: ucwords('änne') = änne, so i cant use that too
SELECT * FROM `names` WHERE lower(`name`) = 'änne'
is working for me, because i don't have a difference between 'Änne' and 'änne' in my DB.
what about:
SELECT * FROM `names` WHERE upper(`name`) = upper("änne")
Quoting doc:
The default character set and collation are latin1 and
latin1_swedish_ci, so nonbinary string comparisons are case
insensitive by default. This means that if you search with col_name
LIKE 'a%', you get all column values that start with A or a. To make
this search case sensitive, make sure that one of the operands has a
case sensitive or binary collation
That means that case sensitive results are because you have set a binary collation. You can set collation column to utf8_general_ci and change it on searchs:
col_name COLLATE latin1_general_cs LIKE 'a%'
There is an error in your MySQL code:
SELECT * FROM names WHERE name = "Änne"
Remove the quotes around the table name and the field name.
I have an InnoDB table in mysql with utf8 charset and utf8_general_ci collation.
After the following query:
SELECT * FROM `ticket`
WHERE `text` LIKE '%abc%'
ORDER BY `created_date` DESC
it returns me the rows containing "äbc" as well as containing "abc". I've tried to use utf8_bin collation on table, but it didn't helped.
What I've missed?
P.S. I thought that the problem is in the PHP connection charset, but after executing the query on Sequel Pro, I've got the same result.
for the unicode collation (both utf8_general_ci and utf8_unicode_ci) you have this kind of equalities:
Ä = A
Ö = O
Ü = U
this is not a bug.
read this http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/charset-unicode-sets.html and this http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/charset-collation-effect.html
select * from table where key='çmyk'
when i run this query on table that have row which's value is 'cmyk'.
the query returns me that row. but values are different. when i search 'çmyk' it returns 'cmyk'.
so what can i do?
MySQL charset: UTF-8 Unicode (utf8)
MySQL connection collation: utf8_unicode_ci
table collation: latin1_swedish_ci
The problem is that the latin1_swedish_ci collation is not only case insensitive, it is umlaut insensitive as well, so the following applies:
Ä = A
Ö = O
etc.
switching to a case sensitive collation in the WHERE clause should work, like so:
select * from table where key='çmyk' collate latin1_general_cs;
with the caveat that this is not good for performance.
mySQL Reference: 9.1.7.8. Examples of the Effect of Collation
Try running the command SET NAMES latin1; and then running your query.
Just got this answer from a previous question and it works a treat!
SELECT username, (SUM(rating)/COUNT(*)) as TheAverage, Count(*) as TheCount
FROM ratings WHERE month='Aug' GROUP BY username HAVING TheCount > 4
ORDER BY TheAverage DESC, TheCount DESC
But when I stick this extra bit in it gives this error:
Documentation #1267 - Illegal mix of
collations
(latin1_swedish_ci,IMPLICIT) and
(latin1_general_ci,IMPLICIT) for
operation '='
SELECT username, (SUM(rating)/COUNT(*)) as TheAverage, Count(*) as TheCount FROM
ratings WHERE month='Aug'
**AND username IN (SELECT username FROM users WHERE gender =1)**
GROUP BY username HAVING TheCount > 4 ORDER BY TheAverage DESC, TheCount DESC
The table is:
id, username, rating, month
Here's how to check which columns are the wrong collation:
SELECT table_schema, table_name, column_name, character_set_name, collation_name
FROM information_schema.columns
WHERE collation_name = 'latin1_general_ci'
ORDER BY table_schema, table_name,ordinal_position;
And here's the query to fix it:
ALTER TABLE tbl_name CONVERT TO CHARACTER SET latin1 COLLATE 'latin1_swedish_ci';
Link
Check the collation type of each table, and make sure that they have the same collation.
After that check also the collation type of each table field that you have use in operation.
I had encountered the same error, and that tricks works on me.
[MySQL]
In these (very rare) cases:
two tables that really need different collation types
values not coming from a table, but from an explicit enumeration, for instance:
SELECT 1 AS numbers UNION ALL SELECT 2 UNION ALL SELECT 3
you can compare the values between the different tables by using CAST or CONVERT:
CAST('my text' AS CHAR CHARACTER SET utf8)
CONVERT('my text' USING utf8)
See CONVERT and CAST documentation on MySQL website.
I was getting this same error on PhpMyadmin and did the solution indicated here which worked for me
ALTER TABLE table CONVERT TO CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci
Illegal mix of collations MySQL Error
Also I would recommend going with General instead of swedish since that one is default and not to use the language unless your application is using Swedish.
I think you should convert to utf8
--set utf8 for connection
SET collation_connection = 'utf8_general_ci'
--change CHARACTER SET of DB to utf8
ALTER DATABASE dbName CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci
--change CHARACTER SET of table to utf8
ALTER TABLE tableName CONVERT TO CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci
I also got same error, but in my case main problem was in where condition the parameter that i'm checking was having some unknown hidden character (+%A0)
When A0 convert I got 160 but 160 was out of the range of the character that db knows, that's why database cannot recognize it as character other thing is my table column is varchar
the solution that I did was I checked there is some characters like that and remove those before run the sql command
ex:- preg_replace('/\D/', '', $myParameter);
Check that your users.gender column is an INTEGER.
Try: alter table users convert to character set latin1 collate latin1_swedish_ci;
You need to change each column Collation from latin1_general_ci to latin1_swedish_ci
I got this same error inside a stored procedure, in the where clause. i discovered that the problem ocurred with a local declared variable, previously loaded by the same table/column.
I resolved it casting the data to single char type.
In short, this error is caused by MySQL trying to do an operation on two things which have different collation settings. If you make the settings match, the error will go away. Of course, you need to choose the right setting for your database, depending on what it is going to be used for.
Here's some good advice on choosing between two very common utf8 collations: What's the difference between utf8_general_ci and utf8_unicode_ci
If you are using phpMyAdmin you can do this systematically by working through the tables mentioned in your error message, and checking the collation type for each column. First you should check which is the overall collation setting for your database - phpMyAdmin can tell you this and change it if necessary. But each column in each table can have its own setting. Normally you will want all these to match.
In a small database this is easy enough to do by hand, and in any case if you read the error message in full it will usually point you to the right place. Don't forget to look at the 'structure' settings for columns with subtables in as well. When you find a collation that does not match you can change it using phpMyAdmin directly, no need to use the query window. Then try your operation again. If the error persists, keep looking!
The problem here mainly, just Cast the field like this cast(field as varchar) or cast(fields as date)
I had this problem not because I'm storing in different collations, but because my column type is JSON, which is binary.
Fixed it like this:
select table.field COLLATE utf8mb4_0900_ai_ci AS fieldName
Use ascii_bin where ever possible, it will match up with almost any collation.
A username seldom accepts special characters anyway.
If you want to avoid changing syntax to solve this problem, try this:
Update your MySQL to version 5.5 or greater.
This resolved the problem for me.
I have the same problem with collection warning for a field that is set from 0 to 1. All columns collections was the same. We try to change collections again but nothing fix this issue.
At the end we update the field to NULL and after that we update to 1 and this overcomes the collection problem.
Was getting Illegal mix of collations while creating a category in Bagisto. Running these commands (thank you #Quy Le) solved the issue for me:
--set utf8 for connection
SET collation_connection = 'utf8_general_ci'
--change CHARACTER SET of DB to utf8
ALTER DATABASE dbName CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci
--change category tables
ALTER TABLE categories CONVERT TO CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci
ALTER TABLE category_translations CONVERT TO CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci
In my case it was something strange. I read an api key from a file and then I send it to the server where a SQL query is made. The problem was the BOM character that the Windows notepad left, it was causing the error that says:
SQLSTATE[HY000]: General error: 1267 Illegal mix of collations (latin1_swedish_ci,IMPLICIT) and (utf8_general_ci,COERCIBLE) for operation '='
I just removed it and everything worked like a charm
You need to set 'utf8' for all parameters in each Function. It's my case:
SELECT username, AVG(rating) as TheAverage, COUNT(*) as TheCount
FROM ratings
WHERE month='Aug'
AND username COLLATE latin1_general_ci IN
(
SELECT username
FROM users
WHERE gender = 1
)
GROUP BY
username
HAVING
TheCount > 4
ORDER BY
TheAverage DESC, TheCount DESC;
Make sure your version of MySQL supports subqueries (4.1+). Next, you could try rewriting your query to something like this:
SELECT ratings.username, (SUM(rating)/COUNT(*)) as TheAverage, Count(*) as TheCount FROM ratings, users
WHERE ratings.month='Aug' and ratings.username = users.username
AND users.gender = 1
GROUP BY ratings.username
HAVING TheCount > 4 ORDER BY TheAverage DESC, TheCount DESC