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What is the query to check Character set of the columns of MySQL table?
Following is the query to check character set of the columns of MySQL table −
mysql> Select Column_name 'Column', Character_set_name 'Charset' FROM information_schema.columns where table_schema = 'db_name' and table_name ='table_name';
Example
For example, the query below returns the name of the columns of ‘test_char_set’ table in a database named ‘sample’ along with the character sets of those columns.
mysql> Select Column_name 'Column', Character_set_name 'Charset' FROM information_schema.columns where table_schema = 'Sample' and table_name ='test_char_set'; +--------+---------+ | Column | Charset | +--------+---------+ | Name | latin1 | | Field | latin1 | +--------+---------+ 2 rows in set (0.03 sec)
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