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flyte/change_charset.py

Created November 26, 2020 13:09
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Change MySQL/MariaDB character set and collation to something sane
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change_charset.py
from django.db import connection
DB_NAME = "your-db-name"
cursor = connection.cursor()
tables = connection.introspection.table_names()
cursor.execute(f"ALTER DATABASE `{DB_NAME}` CHARACTER SET = utf8mb4 COLLATE = utf8mb4_unicode_ci")
for table in tables:
cursor.execute(f"ALTER TABLE {table} CONVERT TO CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci")
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