diff --git a/webdata/scripts/news-raw-tables.php b/webdata/scripts/news-raw-tables.php
index f07bfa3..489930e 100644
--- a/webdata/scripts/news-raw-tables.php
+++ b/webdata/scripts/news-raw-tables.php
@@ -5,14 +5,9 @@
  * to create 12 tables for NewsRaw
  */
 $theTime = mktime();
-$str = "CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `news_raw_%s` (
-  `news_id` int(11) NOT NULL,
-  `time` int(11) NOT NULL,
-  `raw` text NOT NULL,
-  PRIMARY KEY (`news_id`,`time`)
-) ENGINE=InnoDB;";
+$str = 'CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `news_raw_%s` LIKE news_raw';
 $db = NewsRaw::getDb();
 for ($i = 0; $i < 12; $i++) {
     $db->query(sprintf($str, date('Ym', $theTime)));
     $theTime = strtotime('+1 month', $theTime);
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}
diff --git a/webdata/scripts/table-build.php b/webdata/scripts/table-build.php
index c756de5..b264817 100644
--- a/webdata/scripts/table-build.php
+++ b/webdata/scripts/table-build.php
@@ -11,7 +11,18 @@
     $p = pathinfo($m);
     $o = new $p['filename'];
     if($o instanceof Pix_Table) {
-        $o->dropTable();
+        try {
+            $o->dropTable();
+        } catch (Pix_Table_Exception $e) {
+            echo 'Unable to drop table "'.$p['filename'].'". ';
+            if (preg_match('/^Table: \w+SQL Error: \(1051\)Unknown table/',
+                $e->getMessage())) {
+                echo 'Table missing. Ignored.'."\n";
+            } else {
+                echo "\n";
+                die($e->getMessage());
+            }
+        }
         $o->createTable();
     }
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}
diff --git a/webdata/stdlibs/pixframework/Pix/Table/Db/Adapter/MysqlCommon.php b/webdata/stdlibs/pixframework/Pix/Table/Db/Adapter/MysqlCommon.php
index 1a62db6..0552af2 100644
--- a/webdata/stdlibs/pixframework/Pix/Table/Db/Adapter/MysqlCommon.php
+++ b/webdata/stdlibs/pixframework/Pix/Table/Db/Adapter/MysqlCommon.php
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ abstract class Pix_Table_Db_Adapter_MysqlCommon extends Pix_Table_Db_Adapter_SQL
     public function createTable($table)
     {
         $sql = "CREATE TABLE " . $this->column_quote($table->getTableName());
-	$types = array('bigint', 'tinyint', 'int', 'varchar', 'char', 'text', 'float', 'double', 'binary');
+	$types = array('bigint', 'tinyint', 'int', 'varchar', 'char', 'text', 'longtext', 'float', 'double', 'binary');
 
 	foreach ($table->_columns as $name => $column) {
             $s = $this->column_quote($name) . ' ';
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ public function createTable($table)
             $column_sql[] = $s;
 	}
 
-	$sql .= " (\n" . implode(", \n", $column_sql) . ") ENGINE = InnoDB\n";
+	$sql .= " (\n" . implode(", \n", $column_sql) . ") ENGINE = InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8mb4\n";
 
 	return $this->query($sql, $table);
     }