Hi,
I came across this term several times while reading about character set and collation handling, e.g. in the last paragraph of the online manual section 10.3.2 (http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/Charset-database.html):
"
The character set and collation for the default database are available as the values of the character_set_database and collation_database system variables. The server sets these variables whenever the default database changes. If there is no default database, the variables have the same value as the corresponding server-level variables, character_set_server and collation_server.
"
Also in the changes of version 4.1.8 in the "Functionality added or changed:" section the first entry reads:
"
* For ALTER DATABASE, the database name now can be omitted to apply
the change to the default database.
"
I searched a while but could not find an explanation.
So the question remains: what is the "default database"?
Regards, Frank.
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