How to store Emoji Character in MySQL Database

Question

I am using Emoji character in my project. That characters are saved (??) into mysql database. I had used database Default collation in utf8mb4_general_ci. It sh

Answer 1

The command to modify the column is:

ALTER TABLE TABLE_NAME MODIFY COLUMN_NAME TYPE;

And we need to use type = BLOB

Example to modify is as under:-

ALTER TABLE messages MODIFY content BLOB;

I checked that latest mySQL and other databases don't need '' to use in command on table_name, column_name etc.

Fetch and Save data: Directly save the chat content to column and to retrieve data, fetch data as byte array (byte[]) from db column and then convert it to string e.g. (Java code)

new String((byte[]) arr)