Re: Error when upgrading database
Check the database user's permissions in INFORMATION_SCHEMA.
You can test by logging in using the db credentials in db/local.php
Then running
SELECT DISTINCT(TABLE_NAME) FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS
The update script that fails attempts to set the character set to 'utf8' and collation to 'utf8_unicode_ci'.
If you database tables already use these settings, you can ignore this error.