MySQL 8 utf8mb4_0900_ai_ci collation confusion
Kedar
Recently I was asked a question: Why am I getting utf8mb4_0900_ai_ci as the default collation in MySQL 8, despite setting the server to use utf8mb4_general_ci? With the upgrade to MySQL…
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