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Any way to disable charset-handshake and change default server charset in Managed MySQL?
- Posted August 21, 2019
- DigitalOceanDatabasesMySQLPHPPHP Frameworks
Too many old products can’t connect to new MySQL8. All recommendations or rewrite old product, or change MySQL server settings like this:
[client]
default-character-set=utf8
[mysql]
default-character-set=utf8
[mysqld]
skip-character-set-client-handshake
character-set-client-handshake = 0
collation-server = utf8_unicode_ci
character-set-server = utf8
default_authentication_plugin = mysql_native_password
But how to do it in Managed MySQL? Also “SET GLOBAL” way currently not available.
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Hello!
To preserve the stability of the database cluster, users are not able to modify global variables. However, you can make this change on a database by database basis, as described here:
https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/charset-database.html
Here’s an example:
ALTER DATABASE database_name CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci;Note however that this will just change the default charset for the database, all existing tables will have to be converted. You can do that with a command such as this one:
ALTER TABLE table_name CONVERT TO CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci;Hope it helps!
Yes, this is definitely an issue. I’d like to move to managed databases but I can’t connect to it from a legacy PHP apps.
The app is going to be dismissed, but until it exists it needs to work and it’s impossible to upgrade the app.
Please provide a way to change charset on managed DBs
I can’t use database Mysql DO becouse error.
Any solutions ?
other than this.
[client] default-character-set = utf8
[mysql] default-character-set = utf8
[mysqld] character-set-server = utf8 collation-server = utf8mb4_unicode_ci
Are the folks at DO going to bother with a solution for this? Seriously, 1.2k views on this page should be enough for you to realise it’s something a few users have struggled with.
After a week preparing to migrate a site to DO I’ll have to find another provider and start it all again… fantastic
I have only FPM version, trurlmcbyte/php-fpm:hack (PHP 5.6.40)
Is there any resolution for this. I have followed your instructions above and it fails either way.
The mysql managed DB is useless to me if we can’t connect to it with PHP.