mysql的collation

mysql的collation大致的意思就是字符序。首先字符本來是不分大小的，那么對字符的>, = , < 操作就需要有個字符序的規則。collation做的就是這個事情，你可以對表進行字符序的設置，也可以單獨對某個字段進行字符序的設置。一個字符類型，它的字符序有多個，比如：

下面是UTF8對應的字符序。

utf8_general_ci utf8    33  Yes Yes 1
utf8_bin    utf8    83      Yes 1
utf8_unicode_ci utf8    192     Yes 8
utf8_icelandic_ci   utf8    193     Yes 8
utf8_latvian_ci utf8    194     Yes 8
utf8_romanian_ci    utf8    195     Yes 8
utf8_slovenian_ci   utf8    196     Yes 8
utf8_polish_ci  utf8    197     Yes 8
utf8_estonian_ci    utf8    198     Yes 8
utf8_spanish_ci utf8    199     Yes 8
utf8_swedish_ci utf8    200     Yes 8
utf8_turkish_ci utf8    201     Yes 8
utf8_czech_ci   utf8    202     Yes 8
utf8_danish_ci  utf8    203     Yes 8
utf8_lithuanian_ci  utf8    204     Yes 8
utf8_slovak_ci  utf8    205     Yes 8
utf8_spanish2_ci    utf8    206     Yes 8
utf8_roman_ci   utf8    207     Yes 8
utf8_persian_ci utf8    208     Yes 8
utf8_esperanto_ci   utf8    209     Yes 8
utf8_hungarian_ci   utf8    210     Yes 8
utf8_sinhala_ci utf8    211     Yes 8
utf8_german2_ci utf8    212     Yes 8
utf8_croatian_ci    utf8    213     Yes 8
utf8_unicode_520_ci utf8    214     Yes 8
utf8_vietnamese_ci  utf8    215     Yes 8
utf8_general_mysql500_ci    utf8    223     Yes 1

mysql的字符序遵從命名慣例。以_ci(表示大小寫不敏感)，以_cs(表示大小寫敏感)，以_bin(表示用編碼值進行比較)。比如：

CREATE TABLE `issue_message` (
  `id` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
  `content` varchar(255) NOT NULL,
  PRIMARY KEY (`id`),
) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8;

這個表下面的兩個sql會出現同樣的結果

select * from issue_message where content = 'Yes'
select * from issue_message where content = 'yes'

如果改成下面的定義：

CREATE TABLE `issue_message` (
  `id` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
  `content` varchar(255) NOT NULL COLLATE utf8_bin,
  PRIMARY KEY (`id`),
) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8;

那么兩個sql結果就會不一樣了

所以，如果對字符大小敏感的話，最好將數據庫中默認的utf8_general_ci設置為utf8_bin。