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Created July 27, 2015 13:03
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Convert utf8 DB with latin1 data to utf8
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gistfile1.txt
mysqldump --user=username --password=password --default-character-set=latin1 --skip-set-charset dbname > dump.sql
sed -i -E 's/latin1/utf8/g' dump.sql
mysql --user=username --password=password --execute="DROP DATABASE dbname; CREATE DATABASE dbname CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci;"
mysql --user=username --password=password --default-character-set=utf8 dbname < dump.sql
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