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 have the same problem with collection warning for a field that is set from 0 to 1. All columns collections was the same. We try to change collections again but nothing fix this issue.

At the end we update the field to NULL and after that we update to 1 and this overcomes the collection problem.