I\'m working with a fairly simple database, from a Java application. We\'re trying to insert about 200k of text at a time, using the standard JDBC mysql adapter. We interm
I just hit this problem and solved it by removing all the non-standard ascii characters in my text (following the UTF-8 advice above).
I had the problem on a Debian 4, Java 5 system; but the same code worked fine with Ubuntu 9.04, Java 6. Both run MySql 5.