Hi Morten,
You might want to read this post on MySQL Performance Blog that was
posted a few days ago:
http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2009/03/17/converting-character-sets/
Have a nice day,
- Martijn
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 11:50, Morten wrote:
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> Hi, I just tried this on a local copy of t
Hi, I just tried this on a local copy of the table with ~500.000 rows:
execute 'ALTER TABLE users MODIFY email VARCHAR(255) CHARACTER
SET latin1 NOT NULL'
The old character set was UTF8. We're doing this to make the index
smaller. This took around 45 minutes to complete. In production,
