MySQL 5.7 Reference Manual
MySQL 5.7 Release Notes
- 1.8.1 Using COLLATE in SQL Statements
- 1.8.2 COLLATE Clause Precedence
- 1.8.3 Character Set and Collation Compatibility
- 1.8.4 Collation Coercibility in Expressions
- 1.8.5 The binary Collation Compared to _bin Collations
- 1.8.6 Examples of the Effect of Collation
- 1.8.7 Using Collation in INFORMATION_SCHEMA Searches
The following sections discuss various aspects of character set collations.