Database ‘database name’

Table Structure for table ‘wp-commentmeta’

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS ‘wp_commentmeta’ (
‘meta_id’ BIGINT(20) UNSIGNED NOTNULL.
‘commment_id’BIGINT (20) UNSIGNED NOT NULL DEFAULT ‘0’
‘meta_key’ VARCHAR (255)COLLATEutf8mb4_unicode-ci DEFAULT NULL
‘meta_value’ LONGTEXT COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci
) ENGINE=INNDOB DEFAULT CHARSET utfmb4 COLLATE=utf8mb4_unicode_ci;

MySQL said: ?
#1273 Unknown collation: ‘utf8mb4_unicode_ci’

I am not coder, and I do not know what this means. Can anyone help me out? Thank you!

| 393890 | name_my_database | localhost | name_my_database | Query | 0 | Copying to tmp table | SELECT t.*, tt.* FROM wp_ngg_gallery AS t INNER JOIN wp_ngg
_pictures AS tt ON t.gid = tt.galleryid W | _pictures AS tt ON t.gid = tt.galleryid W |

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I’ll be needing to display a list of authors for a particular category and, separately, to display the categories to which an author is assigned.

As I see it there are 2 options for the table structure I’d use:

1) Create a table which stores an array of assigned author id’s to a category and then add a column to the wp_users table which will store an array of category id’s for each user.

2) Create a table that has a column for each category and a row for each author. These would be added dynamically whenever a category was edited to assign authors.

I’d be really grateful for any guidance or suggestions, perhaps I’m missing some important info? I’m relatively new to WordPress…

Thanks in advance!

So anyway – I’m an organizational freak and I’ve been through just about every structure I could get my hands on. Which table in the SQL are the CATEGORIES located on?

And why do I have the itching feeling that it’s on one of the corrupt structures?

HELP?

Thanks.