List available collations. View the character set associated with each collation and identifying properties like ID and default status.
The output from SHOW COLLATION includes all available . The LIKE clause, if present on its own, indicates which collation names to match. The WHERE and LIKE clauses can be given to select rows using more general conditions, as discussed in .
Similar information, including some extra information, can be queried from the table.
No similar information or extra information can be queried from the table.
See for details on specifying the collation at the server, database, table and column levels.
The pad_attribute column (not shown in the examples below) has a value of NO PAD or PAD SPACE. This attribute affects whether trailing spaces are significant in string comparisons. See the table description for more information.
The pad_attribute column is not available.
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SHOW COLLATION
[LIKE 'pattern' | WHERE expr]SHOW COLLATION LIKE 'utf8mb4_bin';
+-------------+---------+------+---------+----------+---------+---------------+
| Collation | Charset | Id | Default | Compiled | Sortlen | Pad_attribute |
+-------------+---------+------+---------+----------+---------+---------------+
| utf8mb4_bin | utf8mb4 | 46 | | Yes | 1 | PAD SPACE |
+-------------+---------+------+---------+----------+---------+---------------+SHOW COLLATION LIKE 'latin1%';
+-------------------------+---------+------+---------+----------+---------+
| Collation | Charset | Id | Default | Compiled | Sortlen |
+-------------------------+---------+------+---------+----------+---------+
| latin1_german1_ci | latin1 | 5 | | Yes | 1 |
| latin1_swedish_ci | latin1 | 8 | Yes | Yes | 1 |
| latin1_danish_ci | latin1 | 15 | | Yes | 1 |
| latin1_german2_ci | latin1 | 31 | | Yes | 2 |
| latin1_bin | latin1 | 47 | | Yes | 1 |
| latin1_general_ci | latin1 | 48 | | Yes | 1 |
| latin1_general_cs | latin1 | 49 | | Yes | 1 |
| latin1_spanish_ci | latin1 | 94 | | Yes | 1 |
| latin1_swedish_nopad_ci | latin1 | 1032 | | Yes | 1 |
| latin1_nopad_bin | latin1 | 1071 | | Yes | 1 |
+-------------------------+---------+------+---------+----------+---------+SHOW COLLATION WHERE Sortlen LIKE '8' AND Charset LIKE 'utf8mb4';
+------------------------------+---------+------+---------+----------+---------+
| Collation | Charset | Id | Default | Compiled | Sortlen |
+------------------------------+---------+------+---------+----------+---------+
| utf8mb4_unicode_ci | utf8mb4 | 224 | | Yes | 8 |
| utf8mb4_icelandic_ci | utf8mb4 | 225 | | Yes | 8 |
| utf8mb4_latvian_ci | utf8mb4 | 226 | | Yes | 8 |
| utf8mb4_romanian_ci | utf8mb4 | 227 | | Yes | 8 |
| utf8mb4_slovenian_ci | utf8mb4 | 228 | | Yes | 8 |
| utf8mb4_polish_ci | utf8mb4 | 229 | | Yes | 8 |
| utf8mb4_estonian_ci | utf8mb4 | 230 | | Yes | 8 |
| utf8mb4_spanish_ci | utf8mb4 | 231 | | Yes | 8 |
| utf8mb4_swedish_ci | utf8mb4 | 232 | | Yes | 8 |
| utf8mb4_turkish_ci | utf8mb4 | 233 | | Yes | 8 |
| utf8mb4_czech_ci | utf8mb4 | 234 | | Yes | 8 |
| utf8mb4_danish_ci | utf8mb4 | 235 | | Yes | 8 |
| utf8mb4_lithuanian_ci | utf8mb4 | 236 | | Yes | 8 |
| utf8mb4_slovak_ci | utf8mb4 | 237 | | Yes | 8 |
| utf8mb4_spanish2_ci | utf8mb4 | 238 | | Yes | 8 |
| utf8mb4_roman_ci | utf8mb4 | 239 | | Yes | 8 |
| utf8mb4_persian_ci | utf8mb4 | 240 | | Yes | 8 |
| utf8mb4_esperanto_ci | utf8mb4 | 241 | | Yes | 8 |
| utf8mb4_hungarian_ci | utf8mb4 | 242 | | Yes | 8 |
| utf8mb4_sinhala_ci | utf8mb4 | 243 | | Yes | 8 |
| utf8mb4_german2_ci | utf8mb4 | 244 | | Yes | 8 |
| utf8mb4_croatian_mysql561_ci | utf8mb4 | 245 | | Yes | 8 |
| utf8mb4_unicode_520_ci | utf8mb4 | 246 | | Yes | 8 |
| utf8mb4_vietnamese_ci | utf8mb4 | 247 | | Yes | 8 |
| utf8mb4_croatian_ci | utf8mb4 | 608 | | Yes | 8 |
| utf8mb4_myanmar_ci | utf8mb4 | 609 | | Yes | 8 |
| utf8mb4_unicode_nopad_ci | utf8mb4 | 1248 | | Yes | 8 |
| utf8mb4_unicode_520_nopad_ci | utf8mb4 | 1270 | | Yes | 8 |
+------------------------------+---------+------+---------+----------+---------+