-- CREDITOS: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10859966/how-to-convert-all-tables-in-database-to-one-collation -- set your table name here SET @MY_SCHEMA = ""; -- tables SELECT DISTINCT CONCAT("ALTER TABLE ", TABLE_NAME," CONVERT TO CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci;") as queries FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES WHERE TABLE_SCHEMA=@MY_SCHEMA AND TABLE_TYPE="BASE TABLE" UNION -- table columns SELECT DISTINCT CONCAT("ALTER TABLE ", C.TABLE_NAME, " CHANGE ", C.COLUMN_NAME, " ", C.COLUMN_NAME, " ", C.COLUMN_TYPE, " CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci;") as queries FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS as C LEFT JOIN INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES as T ON C.TABLE_NAME = T.TABLE_NAME WHERE C.COLLATION_NAME is not null AND C.TABLE_SCHEMA=@MY_SCHEMA AND T.TABLE_TYPE="BASE TABLE" UNION -- views SELECT DISTINCT CONCAT("CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW ", V.TABLE_NAME, " AS ", V.VIEW_DEFINITION, ";") as queries FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.VIEWS as V LEFT JOIN INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES as T ON V.TABLE_NAME = T.TABLE_NAME WHERE V.TABLE_SCHEMA=@MY_SCHEMA AND T.TABLE_TYPE="VIEW";