https://www.fromdual.com/tags/conversion/Recent content in Conversion on FromDual GmbHHugoen-GBoli.sennhauser@fromdual.com (Oli Sennhauser)oli.sennhauser@fromdual.com (Oli Sennhauser)© FromDual GmbHMon, 09 Mar 2020 12:10:30 +0000https://www.fromdual.com/blog/mariadb-and-mysql-character-set-conversion/Sat, 17 Aug 2019 21:50:15 +0000oli.sennhauser@fromdual.com (Oli Sennhauser)https://www.fromdual.com/blog/mariadb-and-mysql-character-set-conversion/<h2 id="table-of-contents">Table of Contents</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.fromdual.com/blog/mariadb-and-mysql-character-set-conversion/#introduction">Introduction</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.fromdual.com/blog/mariadb-and-mysql-character-set-conversion/#character-sets">Character Sets</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.fromdual.com/blog/mariadb-and-mysql-character-set-conversion/#steps-to-convert-to-utf8mb4">Steps to convert Character Set to utf8mb4</a> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.fromdual.com/blog/mariadb-and-mysql-character-set-conversion/#analyzing-the-server">Analyzing the Server</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.fromdual.com/blog/mariadb-and-mysql-character-set-conversion/#analyzing-the-application">Analyzing the Application and the Clients</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.fromdual.com/blog/mariadb-and-mysql-character-set-conversion/#preparation">Preparation of the Server Settings and the Application</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.fromdual.com/blog/mariadb-and-mysql-character-set-conversion/#convert-to-utfmb4">Convert Tables to utf8mb4</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.fromdual.com/blog/mariadb-and-mysql-character-set-conversion/#testing">Testing of new Character Set</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="https://www.fromdual.com/blog/mariadb-and-mysql-character-set-conversion/#mysqlpump">MySQL Pump</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.fromdual.com/blog/mariadb-and-mysql-character-set-conversion/#replication-for-character-set-conversion">MySQL Master/Slave Replication for Character Set conversion</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.fromdual.com/blog/mariadb-and-mysql-character-set-conversion/#upgrade-checker-utility">MySQL Shell, <code>mysqlsh</code> Upgrade Checker Utility</a></li> </ul> <h2 id="introduction">Introduction</h2> <p>Recently we had a consulting engagement where we had to help the customer to migrate from latin1 Character Set to utf8mb4 Character Set. In the same MySQL consulting engagement we considered to upgrade from MySQL 5.6 to MySQL 5.7 as well <br>[ <a href="https://www.fromdual.com/mariadb-and-mysql-upgrade-problems#mysql_56_to_57">Lit.</a> <br>]. We decided to split the change in 2 parts: Upgrading to 5.7 in the first step and converting to uft8mb4 in the second step. There were various reasons for this decision:</p>https://www.fromdual.com/blog/migration-between-mysql-percona-server-and-mariadb/Wed, 08 Oct 2014 21:40:16 +0000oli.sennhauser@fromdual.com (Oli Sennhauser)https://www.fromdual.com/blog/migration-between-mysql-percona-server-and-mariadb/<p>This week, we did some migrations from MariaDB 10.0 to Percona Server 5.6 at the IT department of a big German bank.</p>