https://www.fromdual.com/tags/mysqlpump/Recent content in Mysqlpump on FromDual GmbHHugoen-GBoli.sennhauser@fromdual.com (Oli Sennhauser)oli.sennhauser@fromdual.com (Oli Sennhauser)© FromDual GmbHSat, 17 Aug 2019 21:50:15 +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>