Adriano dos Santos Fernandes wrote:

>
> Some fields need charset, others need OCTETS.
> We have DEFAULT CHARACTER SET.
>
> I don't understand why we can't have DEFAULT COLLATION.

I have no problem with a default collation, as long as it remains
possible to define other collations on fields with different
requirements. The question was no a default collation, but an absolute
database setting.

Regards,


Ann