COLLATIONS

The COLLATIONS table provides a list of collations that correspond to character sets in the CHARACTER_SETS table. Currently, this table is included only for compatibility with MySQL.

USE information_schema;
DESC collations;

+--------------------+-------------+------+------+---------+-------+
| Field              | Type        | Null | Key  | Default | Extra |
+--------------------+-------------+------+------+---------+-------+
| COLLATION_NAME     | varchar(32) | YES  |      | NULL    |       |
| CHARACTER_SET_NAME | varchar(32) | YES  |      | NULL    |       |
| ID                 | bigint(11)  | YES  |      | NULL    |       |
| IS_DEFAULT         | varchar(3)  | YES  |      | NULL    |       |
| IS_COMPILED        | varchar(3)  | YES  |      | NULL    |       |
| SORTLEN            | bigint(3)   | YES  |      | NULL    |       |
+--------------------+-------------+------+------+---------+-------+
6 rows in set (0.00 sec)

SELECT * FROM collations WHERE character_set_name='utf8mb4';

+--------------------+--------------------+------+------------+-------------+---------+
| COLLATION_NAME     | CHARACTER_SET_NAME | ID   | IS_DEFAULT | IS_COMPILED | SORTLEN |
+--------------------+--------------------+------+------------+-------------+---------+
| utf8mb4_bin        | utf8mb4            |   46 | Yes        | Yes         |       1 |
| utf8mb4_general_ci | utf8mb4            |   45 |            | Yes         |       1 |
| utf8mb4_unicode_ci | utf8mb4            |  224 |            | Yes         |       1 |
+--------------------+--------------------+------+------------+-------------+---------+
3 rows in set (0.001 sec)

The description of columns in the COLLATIONS table is as follows:

• COLLATION_NAME: The name of the collation.
• CHARACTER_SET_NAME: The name of the character set which the collation belongs to.
• ID: The ID of the collation.
• IS_DEFAULT: Whether this collation is the default collation of the character set it belongs to.
• IS_COMPILED: Whether the character set is compiled into the server.
• SORTLEN: The minimum length of memory allocated when the collation sorts characters.