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 also got same error, but in my case main problem was in where condition the parameter that i'm checking was having some unknown hidden character (+%A0)

When A0 convert I got 160 but 160 was out of the range of the character that db knows, that's why database cannot recognize it as character other thing is my table column is varchar

• the solution that I did was I checked there is some characters like that and remove those before run the sql command

• ex:- preg_replace('/\D/', '', $myParameter);