Troubleshooting “Illegal mix of collations” error in mysql

Question

Am getting the below error when trying to do a select through a stored procedure in MySQL.

Illegal mix of collations (latin1_general_cs,IMPLICIT) and

Answer 1

Sometimes it can be dangerous to convert charsets, specially on databases with huge amounts of data. I think the best option is to use the "binary" operator:

e.g : WHERE binary table1.column1 = binary table2.column1