With the help of the following MySQL query we can check the character sets of all the tables in a particular database −
mysql> Select Column_name, TABLE_NAME, CHARACTER_SET_NAME FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.Columns Where TABLE_SCHEMA = 'db_name';
Example
For example, the query below returns the character sets of all the tables along with the column names in a database named ‘Alpha’.
mysql> Select Column_name 'Column',TABLE_NAME, CHARACTER_SET_NAME FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.Columns Where TABLE_SCHEMA = 'Alpha'; +---------+------------+--------------------+ | Column | TABLE_NAME | CHARACTER_SET_NAME | +---------+------------+--------------------+ | Name | employee | latin1 | | email | employee | latin1 | | Name | student | latin1 | | RollNo | student | NULL | | Address | student | latin1 | +---------+------------+--------------------+ 5 rows in set (0.04 sec)