character_set_system

Description

character_set_system specifies the character set used by the server.

Privilege requirements

• Query variables

  • Global level

    sys and all user tenants can execute the SHOW VARIABLES statement or query the SYS.TENANT_VIRTUAL_GLOBAL_VARIABLE view (Oracle mode) or the information_schema.GLOBAL_VARIABLES view (MySQL mode) to view the value of a global system variable.

  • Session level

    sys and all user tenants can execute the SHOW VARIABLES statement or query the SYS.TENANT_VIRTUAL_SESSION_VARIABLE view (Oracle mode) or the information_schema.SESSION_VARIABLES view (MySQL mode) to view the value of a session system variable.

• Modify variables

  You cannot modify this variable.

Attributes

Examples

Query the character set used by the server.

obclient> SHOW GLOBAL VARIABLES LIKE 'character_set_system';

The query result is as follows:

+----------------------+---------+
| Variable_name        | Value   |
+----------------------+---------+
| character_set_system | utf8mb4 |
+----------------------+---------+