Problems reading/writing UTF-8 data in MySQL from Java using JDBC connector 5.1

Question

I have a scenario with two MySQL databases (in UTF-8), a Java code (a Timer Service) that synchronize both databases (reading form first of them and writing/updating to seco

Answer 1

A little late but this will help you:

DriverManager.getConnection(
           "jdbc:mysql://" + host + "/" + dbName 
           + "?useUnicode=true&characterEncoding=UTF-8", user, pass);