diff --git a/appserver/batch/glassfish-batch-connector/src/main/java/fish/payara/jbatch/persistence/rdbms/MySqlPersistenceManager.java b/appserver/batch/glassfish-batch-connector/src/main/java/fish/payara/jbatch/persistence/rdbms/MySqlPersistenceManager.java
index 9dcde0e81eb..b36c47ce618 100644
--- a/appserver/batch/glassfish-batch-connector/src/main/java/fish/payara/jbatch/persistence/rdbms/MySqlPersistenceManager.java
+++ b/appserver/batch/glassfish-batch-connector/src/main/java/fish/payara/jbatch/persistence/rdbms/MySqlPersistenceManager.java
@@ -271,10 +271,10 @@ protected Map<String, String> setCreateMySQLStringsMap (IBatchConfig batchConfig
 						+ "("
 						+ "jobexecid BIGINT NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY AUTO_INCREMENT,"
 						+ "jobinstanceid BIGINT,"
-						+ "createtime TIMESTAMP,"
-						+ "starttime TIMESTAMP,"
-						+ "endtime TIMESTAMP,"
-						+ "updatetime TIMESTAMP,"
+						+ "createtime TIMESTAMP NULL,"
+						+ "starttime TIMESTAMP NULL,"
+						+ "endtime TIMESTAMP NULL,"
+						+ "updatetime TIMESTAMP NULL,"
 						+ "parameters BLOB,"
 						+ "batchstatus VARCHAR(512),"
 						+ "exitstatus VARCHAR(512),"
@@ -298,8 +298,8 @@ protected Map<String, String> setCreateMySQLStringsMap (IBatchConfig batchConfig
 						+ "processskipcount INT,"
 						+ "filtercount INT,"
 						+ "writeskipcount INT,"
-						+ "startTime TIMESTAMP,"
-						+ "endTime TIMESTAMP,"
+						+ "startTime TIMESTAMP NULL,"
+						+ "endTime TIMESTAMP NULL,"
 						+ "persistentData BLOB,"
 						+ "CONSTRAINT JOBEXEC_STEPEXEC_FK FOREIGN KEY (jobexecid) REFERENCES "
 						+ tableNames.get(EXECUTION_INSTANCE_TABLE_KEY)