Title: Database error
Last modified: October 27, 2016

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# Database error

 *  Resolved [hossol](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hossol/)
 * (@hossol)
 * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-error-47/)
 * Hi, after migration I get this error.
 * **ERROR** database error write ‘Unknown collation: ‘utf8mb4_unicode_520_ci” –[
   sql=
    CREATE TABLE `wp_bksvcommentmeta` ( `meta_id` bigint(20) unsigned NOT NU…]**
   ERROR** database error write ‘Unknown collation: ‘utf8mb4_unicode_520_ci” – [
   sql= CREATE TABLE `wp_bksvcomments` ( `comment_ID` bigint(20) unsigned NOT NU…]**
   ERROR** database error write ‘Unknown collation: ‘utf8mb4_unicode_520_ci” – [
   sql= CREATE TABLE `wp_bksvlinks` ( `link_id` bigint(20) unsigned NOT NULL AUT…]**
   ERROR** database error write ‘Unknown collation: ‘utf8mb4_unicode_520_ci” – [
   sql= CREATE TABLE `wp_bksvoptions` ( `option_id` bigint(20) unsigned NOT NULL…]**
   ERROR** database error write ‘Unknown collation: ‘utf8mb4_unicode_520_ci” – [
   sql= CREATE TABLE `wp_bksvpostmeta` ( `meta_id` bigint(20) unsigned NOT NULL …]……
 * what is the problem? How can I fix it?
    tnx

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 *  [Cory Lamle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/corylamleorg/)
 * (@corylamleorg)
 * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-error-47/#post-8364394)
 * Hey [@hossol](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hossol/),
 * Checkout this question on the FAQs page I believe it may help or provide some
   clues about this issue:
 *  -> Browse to: [http://lifeinthegrid.com/duplicator-faq](http://lifeinthegrid.com/duplicator-faq)
   -
   > Find question: “I’m getting a ‘Unknown collation’ error, what should I do?”
 * Hope that helps!

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 * Last reply from: [Cory Lamle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/corylamleorg/)
 * Last activity: [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-error-47/#post-8364394)
 * Status: resolved