# ERROR 1731 (HY000) at line 1: Non matching attribute 'CHARACTER SET'

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**Created:** [October 27, 2015, 3:44pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/error-1731-hy000-at-line-1-non-matching-attribute-character-set/4480 "2015-10-27T15:44:46Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 27, 2015, 3:44pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/error-1731-hy000-at-line-1-non-matching-attribute-character-set/4480/1 "2015-10-27T15:44:46Z")

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ERROR 1731 (HY000) at line 1: Non matching attribute ‘CHARACTER SET’ between partition and table  
Exchanging Table Partitions for table TABLE\_TEST  
Please Help !!  
We changed TABLE Character set to Unicode and its take a lot of time .But now we cant restore the database