Illegal mix of collations error in MySql

Question

Just got this answer from a previous question and it works a treat!

SELECT username, (SUM(rating)/COUNT(*)) as TheAverage, Count(*) as TheCount 
FROM ratings         


        

Answer 1

I was getting this same error on PhpMyadmin and did the solution indicated here which worked for me

ALTER TABLE table CONVERT TO CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci

Illegal mix of collations MySQL Error Also I would recommend going with General instead of swedish since that one is default and not to use the language unless your application is using Swedish.