Spaces in string updated to database..stored in database as

Question

hello! i m facing a wierd problem here. i hope someone can help me as soon as possible..
the string that i want to insert into the database has spaces..for example "Harley Davidson Shirt". And when this string is added into the database..the record is stored as ====> Harley Davidson Shirt
i am not sure why the spaces are translated into  . as a result of this..wen i retrieve back the values that i inserted n display it..it still displays as ====> Harley Davidson Shirt <== wid all the   in between
just in case..this is my servlet code..the servlet that adds the string into the database. the string i am trying to add in this OrdersTemp table in the database is actually retrieved from another table called PetProduct in the same database.
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* Created on 2/11/2004
package servlets;
import java.io.IOException;
import javax.servlet.http.*;
import javax.servlet.*;
import beans.database.*;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.List;
* <p>Title: </p>
* <p>Description: </p>
* <p>Copyright: Copyright (c) 2004</p>
* <p>Company: </p>
* @author Administrator
* @version
public class AddToCartServlet1 extends HttpServlet {     
     public void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException {
          processRequest(request, response);     
private void processRequest(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException{
String driverName = this.getServletContext().getInitParameter("Access Driver");
String connectionStr = this.getServletContext().getInitParameter("Access Connection String");
String mySqlJndiName = this.getServletContext().getInitParameter("MySql JNDI");
String database = request.getParameter("database");
DataRetriever db;
db = new DataRetriever();
if ( !db.connect(driverName, connectionStr, "admin", "pets") ){                                           
request.getRequestDispatcher("/WEB-INF/pages/DatabaseError.jsp").forward(request, response);
String name = null;
String petProductId[] = request.getParameterValues("add");
for (int ctr = 0; ctr < petProductId.length; ctr ++) {
     DataRow mama = db.execSelectQuery("Select PetProductID, ProductName From PetProduct where PetProductID = " + petProductId[ctr] + "");
     List list = new ArrayList();
     while ((list = (List)mama.nextRecord()) != null) {
          for (Iterator it = list.iterator(); it.hasNext();) {
               String id = it.next().toString();
               name = it.next().toString();
     String sql = "Insert into OrdersTemp(PetProductId, ProductName) VALUES ('" + petProductId[ctr] + "', '" + name + "')";
     db.execUpdateQuery(sql);
DataRow data = db.execSelectQuery("Select PetProductId, ProductName from OrdersTemp");
request.getSession().setAttribute("data", data);
request.getRequestDispatcher("/WEB-INF/pages/PetProductPurchaseConfirmation.jsp").forward(request, response);
}

Answer 1

You probably need to change the database encoding. Just a guess since your code doesn't reveal the problem area!!!!!!!!