MySQL Database is named as a relational database management system that runs a server providing multi-user access to a number of databases. It is a Free-software-open source project developed by a community of programmers with a full-featured database management system called MySQL. Collation in MySQL Database is a set of rules used in comparisons. Because many people use MySQL with data to be stored in languages other than English, they need to select the rules of comparisons which in turn depends on the character set used for storing that data. To solve problems related to foreign character encoding you usually change your MySQL collation. The most common method to change MySQL collation from latin1 to utf8 can be done by using phpMyAdmin and following the instructions below:
1. Please Enter the successful login details of your cPanel hosting account and click on the phpMyAdmin icon in the Databases box.
2. Select the database you wish to manage from the drop-down menu on the left.
3. Click on the Operations tab in the top menu of your phpMyAdmin.
4. At the bottom of the page you will see the collation option. You can now select a collation from the drop-down menu and click on the Go button.
Please take notice, once you change the collation of a database only the new tables will get created with the new collation and all other tables remain with the collation where they are initially created. For the convenience of customers, most web hosts have set MySQL’s collation to utf8 by default. You can also benefit from this feature by joining eUKhost. The UK web hosting service provider offers reliable and secure hosting services for the last decade to thousands of customers with reliability and security to run any online business.