In MySQL, you might run into an error similar to this:

Illegal mix of collations (utf8_unicode_ci,IMPLICIT) and (utf8_general_ci,IMPLICIT) for operation '=' 

This is generally caused by comparing two strings of incompatible collations or by attempting to select data of different collations into a combined column. In this case, they are utf8_unicode_ci and utf8_general_ci.

So the job now is to make the two columns collation match.

Here are some fixes:

1. Change the collation of one column (or string) to match the other collation.

Find the columns with inappropriate collation:

SHOW CREATE TABLE table_name;

So the chances are, you can find the column with a different collation or it hasn’t been specified at all.

You can change the collation on each column:

ALTER TABLE table_name CHANGE col_name data_type CHARACTER SET charset_name COLLATE collation_name;

If you want to make a collation change table-wide:

ALTER TABLE table_name CONVERT TO CHARACTER SET charset_name COLLATE collation_name;

2. Add a COLLATE clause to specify the collation used in your query.

SELECT * FROM table _name ORDER BY col_name COLLATE collation_name;

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