Re: Error when trying to use the parameter value "Emeritus"

[Filipe Silva]

Can you please elaborate? I don't get it how this "Emeritus", "Provisional" or "Active" you mention has anything to do with it.

From what you say it looks like you have some configurations conflict or you are using characters out of the MySQL's utf-8 safe zone. Maybe you'll have to use the character set utf8mb4 instead. (See also http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/charset-unicode-utf8mb4.html)

You also can turn on the server's general log to see how your statements are getting to the server.

Sample code and data with stack traces would help understanding what's going on. And a summary of your environment settings, versions, connection string parameters, as well.

I hope that helps.