MySQL Workbench Select Breaking With utf8mb4 Field - utf-8

In effort to support emoji's I converted a field on my table from latin1 to utf8mb4. The table has around 5million items and the conversion process took about an hour.
Now I'm noticing something very strange, when I select a result with an emoji, the query executes and freezes MySQL WorkBench - and no result is returned - and it breaks subsequent working queries. I have to exit WorkBench and re-enter to get things to work correctly again.
It just breaks if it show's a result with an emoji in it. I can do a full select and omit the utf8mb4 field and it works every time, it's just when I select * and the emoji data is included it breaks workbench.
I've tried: SET NAMES utf8mb4;before the query and no luck. The results come back fine using any other means, this is just a WorkBench issue. Is there a setting I'm missing somewhere?

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BizTalk WCF-Custom" raised an error ORA-29275: partial multibyte character

I have an interface which is a simple receiveport mapping sendport. The receiveport is the result of an add generated items query. The query just fetches some adres data from the database. This data does contain 'foreign' letters but when i run the query on Oracle SQL Developer, it works fine (gives me 12800 rows).
When BizTalk runs the query, it gives an ORA, which i assumed was an error the db gives to BizTalk am i wrong?
Where do i actually have to fix this problem? and How? Do i need to find out which character set is used on the database and use a convert in the query?
This is an error coming from Oracle - it's very unlikely that it's due to BizTalk or the WCF adapter. It indicates you have some corrupt data in your Oracle DB. You may not be getting the error in SQL Developer because SQL Developer is only returning the first ~50 rows by default (until you actually scroll down past them).
I'd use a strategy like this: http://vibhork.blogspot.com/2011/02/fix-of-ora-29275-partial-multibyte.html to try to find the bad data (e.g. page through the rows using ROWNUM until you find the row that's in error) - you could simulate that in SQL Developer by just scrolling down until you get the error (I think). If you can fix the data, fix it - if the data was put there by another source, you'll either have to get that source to stop putting invalid characters in there or you'll have to convert/concat the column(s) that is (are) causing problems, like:
SELECT problem_column || '' FROM table
or
SELECT CONVERT(COLUMN NAME,'NLS_CHARACTERSET','NLS_CHARACTERSET') FROM table
You might try SELECT CONVERT(COLUMN NAME, 'UTF8', 'US7ASCII') for example.

Operation must be an updateable query - VB Script, Paradox Table

I'm using a Win XP box with BDE Administrator and Access 2007 installed. I'm able to open and perform select queries on existing Paradox tables without problem but have some very strange behavior when attempting INSERT/UPDATE. I can even create a new Paradox table and it has the same behavior. Here is sample code:
' create new table
conObj.Execute "CREATE TABLE test (id INT, comment VARCHAR(30))"
' first insert works fine
conObj.Execute "INSERT INTO test VALUES (1, 'something')"
' second insert fails for unknown reason
conObj.Execute "INSERT INTO test VALUES (2, 'something else')"
I've tried using Jet 4.0, MS Access Paradox driver, and native Paradox driver connection strings but all yield the same result. On the second insert statement it throws an error:
Operation must be an updateable query
I've read numerous posts in forums and pages on help sites that tell me this error is caused by a file permissions issue. The account running this script is part of the Administrator group and I've changed file permissions to allow the Everyone group Full Control of the db file but this changes nothing.
This page put out by Micrsoft Support did not fix the problem: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/175168
Additionally, I can create a new table but any time I try to create a PRIMARY KEY or UNIQUE field I get an error message that says:
"Index_[random characters] is not a valid name."
try
"CREATE TABLE test (id INT, comment VARCHAR(30), primary key(id))"
I don't know much about Paradox databases but this has indeed been a learning experience. Even though I have a table file called table.db that's not enough to store more than a single row of data. I also need several other files to insert or update a paradox database:
table.DB
table.PX
table.VAL
table.XG0
table.XG1
table.YG0
table.YG1
I was nosing around in another program that generates paradox databases and found when I copied a blank database from it along with these other files it generated I was able to insert and update without problems. I have no idea what these files are for or why they need to be present to insert or update but having them present fixed my issue.

Firebird queries using chars/varchar

I am using SQLManager Lite for firebird and it was impossible so far to write a query which would do an operation on char/varchar columns. Character set is win1252.
A query like
select * from Person where name = 'John'
won't return any results despite the fact that the record exists in the database. A similar query on a numerical column works just fine.
AM I am missing anything here?
Also, this query runs fine from my application. The only issue is that I would like to be able to run it within SQLManager Lite too. As a side note, values for char and varchar columns are not displayed properly within the same SQLManager Lite.
change to like
select * from Person where name like 'John'

Crystal Reports Issue turning a string into a number

I'm having one of those throw the computer out the window days.
I am working on a problem involving Crystal Reports (Version 10) and an Oracle Database (11g).
I am taking a view from the database that returns a string (varcahr2(50)) which is actually a number, when a basic SELECT * query is run on this view I get the number back in the format 000000000000100.00.
When this view is then used in Crystal Reports I can view the field data, but I can't sum the data as it is not a number.
I began, by attempting to using ToNumber on the field, to which Crystal's response was that the string was not numeric text. Ok fair enough, I went back to the view and ran TO_NUMBER, when this was then used in crystal it did not return any results. I also attempted to run TO_CHAR on the view so that I could hopefully import the field as text and then perform a ToNumber, yet the same as with the TO_NUMBER no records were displayed.
I've started new reports, I've started new views. No avail.
This seems to have something to do with how I am retrieving the data for the view.
In simplistic terms I'm pulling data from a table looking at two fields a Foreign Key and a Value field.
SELECT PRIMARY_KEY,
NVL(MAX(DECODE(FOREIGN_KEY, FOREIGN_KEY_OF_VALUE_I_NEED, VALUE_FIELD)), 0)
FROM MY_TABLE
GROUP BY PRIMARY_KEY
When I attempted to put modify the result using TO_NUMBER or TO_CHAR I have used it around the VALUE_FIELD itself and the entire expression, wither way works when the run in a SQL statement. However any TO_NUMBER or TO_CHAR modification to the statement returns no results in Crystal Reports when the view is used.
This whole problem smacks of something that is a tick box or equivalent that I have overlooked.
Any suggestions of how to solve this issue or where I could go to look for an answer would be greatly appreciated.
I ran this query in SQL Developer:
SELECT xxx, to_number(xxx) yyy
FROM (
SELECT '000000000000100.00' XXX FROM DUAL
)
Which resulted in:
XXX YYY
000000000000100.00 100
If your field is truly numeric, you could create a SQL Expression field to do the conversion:
-- {%NUMBER_FIELD}
TO_NUMBER(TABLE.VALUE_FIELD)
This turned out to be an issue with how Crystal Reports deals with queries from a database. All I needed to do was contain my SQL statement within another Select Statement and on this instance of the column apply the TO_NUMBER so that Crystal Reports would recognize the column values as numbers.
Hopefully this helps someone out, as this was a terrible waste of an afternoon.

Toad Table Structure Issues

Table columns have weird characters
I have this script to generate a table.
p.s. This is an ETL table for incoming data - I know about the bad structure, but cannot change it.
In Toad, the table structure looks like this (with the weird characters shown):
And when I click on the data tab, I get the following error:
Why are all these weird characters showing up?
You can get odd characters in table/column names by quoting them [eg create table "test one" ("id#" number); ]
I'd be more concerned about the odd characters in the Histogram column which is system generated. I'd try SQL*Plus and select DUMP(column_name), dump(historgram) from user_tab_columns
That way you may be able to see if the problem is with how TOAD is working, or with the stuff in the database.
looks like some cut and paste characters.
try cutting the script into notepad, then save it, then cut it back out of notepad and running it in sql plus or the toad edit window.
that should remove funny chars.
(you will probably want to drop that existing table before running the script again )

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