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

MySQL really dislikes mixing collations unless it can coerce them to the same one (which clearly is not feasible in your case). Can't you just force the same collation to be used via a COLLATE clause? (or the simpler BINARY shortcut if applicable...).