https://community.qlik.com/t5/App-Development/MySQL-connector-fields-returning-System-Byte/m-p/1579039#M42238 <P>To Whom it May Concern,</P><P>I hope this finds you well.&nbsp;&nbsp;<SPAN>A colleague and I created a connection between a Qlik enterprise app and a MySQL database (phpMyAdmin). The connector works, but for some reason all the data under fields (except for the date field) come back as 'System.Byte[]' even though it's text.My colleague told me that the data is in utf8mb4_unicode_ci.&nbsp;</SPAN></P><DIV>Is this a problem any of&nbsp; you have encountered before? If so is there any quick fix to it? (I tried putting text() around the fields as well but same problem.. )</DIV><DIV>&nbsp;</DIV><DIV>Thank you for your time and support.</DIV><DIV>&nbsp;</DIV><DIV>Best,</DIV><DIV>&nbsp;</DIV><DIV>Mohammed</DIV> Wed, 22 Dec 2021 20:32:06 GMT malradi88 2021-12-22T20:32:06Z https://community.qlik.com/t5/App-Development/MySQL-connector-fields-returning-System-Byte/m-p/1579039#M42238 <P>To Whom it May Concern,</P><P>I hope this finds you well.&nbsp;&nbsp;<SPAN>A colleague and I created a connection between a Qlik enterprise app and a MySQL database (phpMyAdmin). The connector works, but for some reason all the data under fields (except for the date field) come back as 'System.Byte[]' even though it's text.My colleague told me that the data is in utf8mb4_unicode_ci.&nbsp;</SPAN></P><DIV>Is this a problem any of&nbsp; you have encountered before? If so is there any quick fix to it? (I tried putting text() around the fields as well but same problem.. )</DIV><DIV>&nbsp;</DIV><DIV>Thank you for your time and support.</DIV><DIV>&nbsp;</DIV><DIV>Best,</DIV><DIV>&nbsp;</DIV><DIV>Mohammed</DIV> Wed, 22 Dec 2021 20:32:06 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/App-Development/MySQL-connector-fields-returning-System-Byte/m-p/1579039#M42238 malradi88 2021-12-22T20:32:06Z https://community.qlik.com/t5/App-Development/MySQL-connector-fields-returning-System-Byte/m-p/1850527#M70289 <P>I'm having the same problem and can't find a better way than using CONVERT(field, char) as Field</P> Fri, 22 Oct 2021 08:36:59 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/App-Development/MySQL-connector-fields-returning-System-Byte/m-p/1850527#M70289 congtv 2021-10-22T08:36:59Z