MySQL Reference Manual for version 4.0.18.

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16.4.5 SHOW COLLATION

The output from SHOW COLLATION includes all available character sets. It takes an optional LIKE clause that indicates which collation names to match.

 
mysql> SHOW COLLATION LIKE 'latin1%';
+-------------------+---------+----+---------+----------+---------+
| Collation         | Charset | Id | Default | Compiled | Sortlen |
+-------------------+---------+----+---------+----------+---------+
| latin1_german1_ci | latin1  |  5 |         |          |       0 |
| latin1_swedish_ci | latin1  |  8 | Yes     | Yes      |       0 |
| latin1_danish_ci  | latin1  | 15 |         |          |       0 |
| latin1_german2_ci | latin1  | 31 |         | Yes      |       2 |
| latin1_bin        | latin1  | 47 |         | Yes      |       0 |
| latin1_general_ci | latin1  | 48 |         |          |       0 |
| latin1_general_cs | latin1  | 49 |         |          |       0 |
| latin1_spanish_ci | latin1  | 94 |         |          |       0 |
+-------------------+---------+----+---------+----------+---------+
7 rows in set (0.00 sec)

The Default column indicates whether a collation is the default for its character set. Compiled indicates whether or not the character set is compiled into the server. Sortlen is related to the amount of memory required to sort strings expressed in the character set.



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