OK, LAST Message … SOLVED!!!!!
It was my local instance of MySQL configuration that was causing the issue …
I went over to the instance configuration and changed the following line in the my.ini file (using the UI)
from:
sql_mode = “STRICT_TRANS_TABLES,NO_AUTO_CREATE_USER,NO_ENGINE_SUBSTITUTION”
to:
sql_mode = “”
Bingo … all fixed …