How to create a MySQL database with a specified character set?

2 years ago

Olivia Parker

1 minute

To create a database and specify the character set, you can use the CHARACTER SET parameter when creating the database. For example:

CREATE DATABASE my_database CHARACTER SET utf8mb4;

This will create a database named my_database, using the utf8mb4 character set. You can choose other character sets such as utf8, latin1, etc. It’s important to choose the character set based on your needs and the content of your data.