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

I personnaly had this problem in a procedure. If you dont want to alter table you can try to convert your parameter into the procedure . I've try sevral use of collate (with a set into the select) but none works for me.

CONVERT(my_param USING utf32) did the trick.