Stacktrace com.mysql.jdbc.PacketTooBigException: Packet for query is too large

Caused by: com.mysql.jdbc.PacketTooBigException: Packet for query is too large (6862323 > 4194304). You can change this value on the server by setting the max_allowed_packet' variable.
 at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.send(MysqlIO.java:3671)
 at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.sendCommand(MysqlIO.java:2508)
 at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.sqlQueryDirect(MysqlIO.java:2673)
 at com.mysql.jdbc.ConnectionImpl.execSQL(ConnectionImpl.java:2549)
 at com.mysql.jdbc.PreparedStatement.executeInternal(PreparedStatement.java:1861)
 at com.mysql.jdbc.PreparedStatement.executeUpdateInternal(PreparedStatement.java:2073)
 at com.mysql.jdbc.PreparedStatement.executeBatchSerially(PreparedStatement.java:1751)
 ... 23 more
org.appvance.hibernate.TransactionException: Transaction not successfully started
 at org.appvance.hibernate.transaction.JDBCTransaction.commit(JDBCTransaction.java:100)
 at com.appvance.enterprise.tmresults.DatabaseResultLogger.closeDBConnection(DatabaseResultLogger.java:830)
 at com.appvance.enterprise.tmresults.DatabaseResultLogger.processTransactions(DatabaseResultLogger.java:308)
 at com.appvance.enterprise.tmresults.DatabaseResultLogger.commitResultsAux(DatabaseResultLogger.java:896)
 at com.appvance.enterprise.tmresults.DatabaseResultLogger$4.run(DatabaseResultLogger.java:857)

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