Am getting the below error when trying to do a select through a stored procedure in MySQL.
Illegal mix of collations (latin1_general_cs,IMPLICIT) and (latin1_general_ci,IMPLICIT) for operation '='
Any idea on what might be going wrong here?
The collation of the table is latin1_general_ci
and that of the column in the where clause is latin1_general_cs
.
Best Answer
This is generally caused by comparing two strings of incompatible collation or by attempting to select data of different collation into a combined column.
The clause
COLLATE
allows you to specify the collation used in the query.For example, the following
WHERE
clause will always give the error you posted:Your solution is to specify a shared collation for the two columns within the query. Here is an example that uses the
COLLATE
clause:Another option is to use the
BINARY
operator:Your solution might look something like this:
or,