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Created September 16, 2013 14:39
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Fix Busted Characters after converting mysql db from latin1_swedish to utf8
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mysql -uroot --password= --skip-column-names -e "select concat('update ', a.table_name, ' set ', a.column_name, ' = convert(cast(convert(', a.column_name, ' using latin1) as binary) using utf8);') from information_schema.columns a where a.table_schema = '$DB_SCHEMA';" > fixutf8.sql
mysql -uroot --password= $DB_SCHEMA < fixutf8.sql
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