MySQL ERROR 1231 (42000):Variable 'character_set_client' can't be set to the value of 'NULL'

Question

I\'ve a MySQL 5.0.84 running in a Slackware 13.0 Staging server and wanted to copy a single table to another server which was built to use Ubuntu 1

Answer 1

I changed from

/*!40101 SET CHARACTER_SET_CLIENT=@OLD_CHARACTER_SET_CLIENT */;

to

/*!40101 SET CHARACTER_SET_CLIENT=@@CHARACTER_SET_CLIENT */;

it worked for me