生成查询以更新每个表和每个表的列。 我以前在我的一些项目中使用过这种方法，并且能够解决我的大部分COLLATION问题。(特别是在join上)

要使用，只需将结果导出为带分隔符的文本(可能是新行'\n')

每个表

SELECT CONCAT('ALTER TABLE `', TABLE_NAME, 
              '` CONVERT TO CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci;') 
       AS 'USE `DATABASE_NAME`;' 
FROM   INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES 
WHERE  TABLE_SCHEMA = 'DATABASE_NAME' 
       AND TABLE_TYPE LIKE 'BASE TABLE' 

每一列

SELECT CONCAT('ALTER TABLE `', TABLE_NAME, '` MODIFY COLUMN `', COLUMN_NAME,'` ', 
              DATA_TYPE, IF(CHARACTER_MAXIMUM_LENGTH IS NULL 
       OR DATA_TYPE LIKE 'longtext', '', CONCAT('(', CHARACTER_MAXIMUM_LENGTH, 
                                         ')') 
       ), ' COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci;') AS 'USE `DATABASE_NAME`;' 
FROM   INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS 
WHERE  TABLE_SCHEMA = 'DATABASE_NAME' 
       AND (SELECT INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES.TABLE_TYPE 
            FROM   INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES 
            WHERE  INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES.TABLE_SCHEMA = 
                   INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS.TABLE_SCHEMA 
                   AND INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES.TABLE_NAME = 
                       INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS.TABLE_NAME 
            LIMIT  1) LIKE 'BASE TABLE' 
       AND DATA_TYPE IN ( 'char', 'varchar' ) /* include other types if necessary */

我很惊讶地发现，所以我不得不回到这里报告，优秀和维护良好的Interconnect/it SAFE SEARCH and REPLACE ON DATABASE脚本有一些选项可以将表转换为utf8 / unicode，甚至转换为innodb。它是一个脚本，通常用于将数据库驱动的网站(Wordpress, Drupal, Joomla等)从一个域迁移到另一个域。

https://github.com/interconnectit/Search-Replace-DB https://interconnectit.com/products/search-and-replace-for-wordpress-databases/

我的解决方案是@Dzintars和@Quassnoi Answer的组合。

SELECT CONCAT("ALTER TABLE ", TABLE_SCHEMA, '.', TABLE_NAME," CONVERT TO CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 ;") AS    ExecuteTheString
FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES
WHERE TABLE_SCHEMA="<your-database>"
AND TABLE_TYPE="BASE TABLE";

通过使用CONVERT TO，这将生成一个脚本，它将<your-database>的所有表转换为所需的编码。这也改变了每一列的编码!

下面的查询将生成ALTER查询，将所有表中所有适当列的排序规则更改为某种类型(在下面的示例中为utf8_general_ci)。

SELECT concat
        (
            'ALTER TABLE ', 
                t1.TABLE_SCHEMA, 
                '.', 
                t1.table_name, 
                ' MODIFY ', 
                t1.column_name, 
                ' ', 
                t1.data_type, 
                '(' , 
                    CHARACTER_MAXIMUM_LENGTH, 
                ')', 
                ' CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci;'
        )
from 
    information_schema.columns t1
where 
    t1.TABLE_SCHEMA like 'you_db_name_goes_here' AND
    t1.COLLATION_NAME IS NOT NULL AND
    t1.COLLATION_NAME NOT IN ('utf8_general_ci');

我不得不在一个有很多基的集群中更改所有数据库、表和列的排序规则。

我使用了一个运行在php 8.1和mysql 8.0上的脚本

function changeCollate() {
    $databases = $this->fetchQueryToArray("SHOW DATABASES LIKE 'nova_%'")->rows;
    foreach ($databases as $value) {
        $db = $value['Database (nova_%)'];
        $this->LOG("-- banco de dados --- " . $db);
        $this->exeQuery("ALTER DATABASE `$db` COLLATE utf8mb4_0900_ai_ci;");
        $this->exeQuery("use $db");
        $tables = $this->fetchQueryToArray("SHOW tables")->rows;
        foreach ($tables as $table) {
            $tb_name = $table["Tables_in_$db"];
            $this->exeQuery("ALTER TABLE `$tb_name` COLLATE utf8mb4_0900_ai_ci;");
            $QUERY = "ALTER TABLE `$db`.`$tb_name`\n";
            $columns = $this->fetchQueryToArray("SHOW FULL COLUMNS FROM $tb_name WHERE Type LIKE 'varchar%' OR Type = 'text' OR Type like 'enum%' OR Type = 'longtext' OR Type = 'mediumtext'")->rows;
            foreach ($columns as $column) {
                $QUERY .= "CHANGE `{$column['Field']}` `{$column['Field']}` {$column['Type']} COLLATE 'utf8mb4_0900_ai_ci'";
                $QUERY .= ($column['Null'] == 'YES') ?  " NULL" : " NOT NULL";
                if ($column['Default']) $QUERY .= " DEFAULT '{$column['Default']}'";
                if ($column['Comment']) $QUERY .= " COMMENT '{$column['Comment']}'";
                $QUERY .= ",\n";
            }
            if ($QUERY == "ALTER TABLE `$db`.`$tb_name`\n") continue;
            $QUERY = substr($QUERY, 0, -2) . ";\n\n";
            $this->exeQuery($QUERY);
        }
    }
}

要更改表的排序规则，您可以使用，

ALTER TABLE mytable CONVERT TO CHARACTER SET utf8

若要为整个数据库设置默认排序规则，请执行以下操作

ALTER DATABASE  `databasename` DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_bin

否则,

Goto PhpMyAdmin - >操作- >排序。

在这里，您可以找到包含所有现有排序规则的选择框。这样你就可以改变排序规则。在创建新列时，数据库表将遵循这个排序规则。创建新列时不需要选择排序规则。