Troubleshooting “Illegal mix of collations” error in mysql

Question

Am getting the below error when trying to do a select through a stored procedure in MySQL.

Illegal mix of collations (latin1_general_cs,IMPLICIT) and

Answer 1

If you have phpMyAdmin installed, you can follow the instructions given in the following link: https://mediatemple.net/community/products/dv/204403914/default-mysql-character-set-and-collation You have to match the collate of the database with that of all the tables, as well as the fields of the tables and then recompile all the stored procedures and functions. With that everything should work again.