MySQL 8.0 Release Notes
MySQL 8.0 Source Code Documentation
- 12.8.1 Using COLLATE in SQL Statements
- 12.8.2 COLLATE Clause Precedence
- 12.8.3 Character Set and Collation Compatibility
- 12.8.4 Collation Coercibility in Expressions
- 12.8.5 The binary Collation Compared to _bin Collations
- 12.8.6 Examples of the Effect of Collation
- 12.8.7 Using Collation in INFORMATION_SCHEMA Searches
The following sections discuss various aspects of character set collations.