#1273 – Unknown collation: ‘utf8mb4_unicode_520_ci’

Question

I have a WordPress website on my local WAMP server. But when I upload its database to live server, I get error

#1273 – Unknown collation: ‘         


        

Answer 1

Late to the party, but in case this happens with a WORDPRESS installation :

#1273 - Unknown collation: 'utf8mb4_unicode_520_ci

In phpmyadmin, under export method > Format-specific options( custom export )

Set to : MYSQL40

If you will try to import now, you now might get another error message :

1064 - You have an error in your SQL syntax; .....

That is because The older TYPE option that was synonymous with ENGINE was removed in MySQL 5.5.

Open your .sql file , search and replace all instances

from TYPE= to ENGINE=

Now the import should go smoothly.