[LRUG] MySQL/Rails Collation

[Andrew Stewart]

On 26 Jan 2012, at 15:18, Andrew Stewart wrote:
> Following up this thread...I've now converted my MySQL database from latin1/swedish to utf8.  The database backups (gzipped SQL dumps) have plummeted in file size by a quarter, from 6.4MB to 4.7MB.
> 
> Does this sound right?  It seems a surprising large decrease to me.

False alarm!  It turned out the size reduction was due to a migration I ran subsequently.  Doh.

Cheers,
Andy