Sunday, 8 January 2017

mysql - Difference between Encoding and collation?



I have seen certain questions and bugs related to encoding and collation. Could anyone of the visitors explain the difference in MySQL domain?


Answer



Encoding refers to that character set used.
Collation determines the sort order.



See: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/charset-general.html


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