How to change MySQL database collation from phpMyAdmin in cPanel

May 5, 2009 · Filed Under cPanel Hosting Tutorials 

Sometime you may require to change MySQL collation to use foreign character encoding. There are many ways to change MySQL collation. Here are the steps to change MySQL collation from phpMyAdmin in cPanel:

[1] Login to your cPanel and click on “phpMyAdmin” icon.
[2] Click on your database name and the go to “Operations” tab.
[3] At the bottom of the page you will see the collation option. You can now select a collation from the drop down menu and click on the Go button.

Please note that the new collation will be set for new tables only. Old table will use the previous collation under which they were created. If you want to use new collation for already created tables, you will need to change collation for all tables.

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  • See if u want to use other then engish in your data base so u should have set Collation value as utf_char8 like p>इंग्लैंड के मैंचेस्टर विश्वविद्यालय के खगोलशास्त्रियों ने बग नीहारिका के बीचोंबीच धूल और बर्फ़ के बादलों में छिपे एक ग्रह की तलाश की है. ग्रहीय नीहारिका तब बनती है जब मरता हुआ कोई तारा अपनी अधिकांश गैस अंतरिक्ष में फेंकता है.

    Above line reflected as same ooutput, but if u dont use utf_char8 as Collation then output become like this ?????? ??? ???? ???? ???
  • how i can change database on my site
  • kailash
    Are you referring to rename your MySQL database?
  • Ritesh
    Hi,

    Thanks for the steps.

    Ritesh
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