How to use an user variables in MySQL LIKE clause?

Question

I am trying to setup a few simple SQL scripts to help with some short term DB administration. As such, I\'m setting up variables to try to make it easier to reuse these scri

Answer 1

You may have error

Error Code: 1267. Illegal mix of collations for operation 'like'    0.016 sec

In this case you need to specify the same collation as used for your table like that:

SET @email = 'test@test.com' COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci;