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# Emoji in REDIS Database error when Migrating from REDIS to MySQL

### Issue <a href="#issue" id="issue"></a>

Error returned when migrating from REDIS to MySQL: org.springframework.jdbc.UncategorizedSQLException: jOOQ; uncategorized SQLException for SQL \[insert into pipeline\_stages (id, legacy\_id, execution\_id, status, updated\_at, body) values (?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?) on duplicate key update status = ?, updated\_at = ?, body = ? -- agentClass: PipelineMigrationAgent]; SQL state \[HY000]; error code \[1366]; Incorrect string value: '\x\x\x\x...'

As an example, the incorrect string value will be an emoji icon, e.g. `\xF0\x9F\x94\x90mT...` which is a lock emoji

### Cause <a href="#cause" id="cause"></a>

Spinnaker doesn't parse the information properly, because it wasn't declared what kind of encoding it should process the data with