Generate ALTER statements to convert a database from utf8 to utf8mb4

ut8_to_utf8mb4_conversion.sql

use information_schema;

SELECT concat("ALTER DATABASE `",table_schema,"` CHARACTER SET = utf8mb4 COLLATE = utf8mb4_unicode_ci;") as _sql 
FROM `TABLES` where table_schema like "database-name" group by table_schema;

SELECT concat("ALTER TABLE `",table_schema,"`.`",table_name,"` CONVERT TO CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci;") as _sql  
FROM `TABLES` where table_schema like "database-name" group by table_schema, table_name;

SELECT concat("ALTER TABLE `",table_schema,"`.`",table_name, "` CHANGE `",column_name,"` `",column_name,"` ",data_type,"(",character_maximum_length,") CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci",IF(is_nullable="YES"," NULL"," NOT NULL"),";") as _sql 
FROM `COLUMNS` where table_schema like "database-name" and data_type in ('varchar','char');

SELECT concat("ALTER TABLE `",table_schema,"`.`",table_name, "` CHANGE `",column_name,"` `",column_name,"` ",data_type," CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci",IF(is_nullable="YES"," NULL"," NOT NULL"),";") as _sql 
FROM `COLUMNS` where table_schema like "database-name" and data_type in ('text','tinytext','mediumtext','longtext');