Windows specific characters

Hello: I have some data in a spreadsheet that I need to load into a database. The data in the excel spreadsheet apparently contains windows specific characters. Whenever I import the data into my database, those special characters remain and since my database runs on an unix platform, I am

Problem with imported data from mysqldump file

I am generating a backup of a database using mysqldump and using that dumped file to repopulate another database. The dump and import process work just fine, BUT I am having some problems in my application with some enconding issues. For example, one of the rows that mysqldump outputs is the

Websphere and mysql

Hello: I have been trying to configure websphere 5 to use mysql. I have set up the datasource using the mysql driver and whenever I test the connection from the websphere admin console, I get the following: Test Connection failed for datasource Securance Datasource on server server1 at node linux

Problem with websphere configuration

Hello: I have been trying to configure websphere 5 to use mysql. I have set up the datasource using the mysql driver and whenever I test the connection from the websphere admin console, I get the following: Test Connection failed for datasource Securance Datasource on server server1 at node