diff --git a/workflow/engine/config/schema.xml b/workflow/engine/config/schema.xml
index 31e77f85b..7344a199c 100644
--- a/workflow/engine/config/schema.xml
+++ b/workflow/engine/config/schema.xml
@@ -1287,7 +1287,7 @@
     <column name="TRN_CATEGORY" type="VARCHAR" size="100" required="true" primaryKey="true" default=""/>
     <column name="TRN_ID" type="VARCHAR" size="100" required="true" primaryKey="true" default=""/>
     <column name="TRN_LANG" type="VARCHAR" size="10" required="true" primaryKey="true" default="en"/>
-    <column name="TRN_VALUE" type="LONGVARCHAR" required="true" default=""/>
+    <column name="TRN_VALUE" type="LONGVARCHAR" required="true" />
     <column name="TRN_UPDATE_DATE" type="DATE" required="false"/>
     <validator column="TRN_CATEGORY">
       <rule name="maxLength" value="100" message="Category can be no larger than ${value} in size"/>
@@ -2710,4 +2710,4 @@
     <column name="CATEGORY_NAME" type="VARCHAR" size="100" required="true" default=""/>
     <column name="CATEGORY_ICON" type="VARCHAR" size="100" default=""/>
   </table>
-</database>
\ No newline at end of file
+</database>
diff --git a/workflow/engine/data/mysql/schema.sql b/workflow/engine/data/mysql/schema.sql
index fcdc10c6b..d60e8841d 100644
--- a/workflow/engine/data/mysql/schema.sql
+++ b/workflow/engine/data/mysql/schema.sql
@@ -604,7 +604,7 @@ CREATE TABLE `TRANSLATION`
 	`TRN_CATEGORY` VARCHAR(100) default '' NOT NULL,
 	`TRN_ID` VARCHAR(100) default '' NOT NULL,
 	`TRN_LANG` VARCHAR(10) default 'en' NOT NULL,
-	`TRN_VALUE` MEDIUMTEXT default '' NOT NULL,
+	`TRN_VALUE` MEDIUMTEXT  NOT NULL,
 	`TRN_UPDATE_DATE` DATE,
 	PRIMARY KEY (`TRN_CATEGORY`,`TRN_ID`,`TRN_LANG`)
 )ENGINE=MyISAM  DEFAULT CHARSET='utf8';