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Brutal fix for “Incorrect string value:” error in Matomo (Piwik)

If you’re using Matomo (previously Piwik) on MS IIS and MariaDB  and you’re getting a lot of these:

[06-Jun-2018 11:56:36 UTC] Error in Matomo (tracker): Error query: SQLSTATE[22007]: Invalid datetime format: 1366 Incorrect string value: '\xC3_\xC6\x92\xC3\x82...' for column 'name' at row 1 In query: INSERT INTO matomo_log_action (name, hash, type, url_prefix) VALUES (?,CRC32(?),?,?) Parameters: array (   0 => 'website.com/Ă_ƒÂ¢',   1 => 'website.com/Ă_ƒÂ¢',   2 => 1,   3 => 1, )

You can use my fix (because literally nothing that can be found in the internet is helpful in this case).

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