Enable binary mode while restoring a Database from an SQL dump

Question

I am extremely new to MySQL and am running it on Windows. I am trying to restore a Database from a dumpfile in MySQL, but I get the following error:

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Answer 1

I know the original posters question was solved, but I came here via Google, and the various answers eventually led me to discovering that my SQL was dumped with a different default charset than the one used to import it. I got the same error as the original question, but as our dump was piped into another MySQL client, we couldn't go the route of opening it with another tool and saving it differently.

For us, the solution turned out to be the --default-character-set=utf8mb4 option, to be used both on the call of mysqldump as well as the call to import it via mysql. Of course, the value of the parameter may differ for others facing the same problem, it's just important to keep it the same, as the servers (or the tools) default setting might be any charset.