DROP TABLE IF EXISTS t1; CREATE TABLE t1 (a INT PRIMARY KEY, b CHAR(8)) ENGINE=xengine DEFAULT CHARACTER SET = utf8 COLLATE = utf8_general_ci COMMENT = 'standard table options' ; Warnings: Warning 3719 'utf8' is currently an alias for the character set UTF8MB3, but will be an alias for UTF8MB4 in a future release. Please consider using UTF8MB4 in order to be unambiguous. Warning 3778 'utf8_general_ci' is a collation of the deprecated character set UTF8MB3. Please consider using UTF8MB4 with an appropriate collation instead. SHOW CREATE TABLE t1; Table Create Table t1 CREATE TABLE `t1` ( `a` int(11) NOT NULL, `b` char(8) DEFAULT NULL, PRIMARY KEY (`a`) ) ENGINE=XENGINE DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8 COMMENT='standard table options' ALTER TABLE t1 COMMENT = 'table altered'; SHOW CREATE TABLE t1; Table Create Table t1 CREATE TABLE `t1` ( `a` int(11) NOT NULL, `b` char(8) DEFAULT NULL, PRIMARY KEY (`a`) ) ENGINE=XENGINE DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8 COMMENT='table altered' ALTER TABLE t1 ENGINE=MEMORY; SHOW CREATE TABLE t1; Table Create Table t1 CREATE TABLE `t1` ( `a` int(11) NOT NULL, `b` char(8) DEFAULT NULL, PRIMARY KEY (`a`) ) ENGINE=MEMORY DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8 COMMENT='table altered' ALTER TABLE t1 ENGINE=xengine; SHOW CREATE TABLE t1; Table Create Table t1 CREATE TABLE `t1` ( `a` int(11) NOT NULL, `b` char(8) DEFAULT NULL, PRIMARY KEY (`a`) ) ENGINE=XENGINE DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8 COMMENT='table altered' ALTER TABLE t1 CHARACTER SET = latin1 COLLATE = latin1_swedish_ci; SHOW CREATE TABLE t1; Table Create Table t1 CREATE TABLE `t1` ( `a` int(11) NOT NULL, `b` char(8) CHARACTER SET utf8 DEFAULT NULL, PRIMARY KEY (`a`) ) ENGINE=XENGINE DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1 COMMENT='table altered' DROP TABLE t1;