What does the SQL Server Error String Data Right Truncation mean and how do I fix it

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We are doing some performance tests on our website and we are getting the following error a lot        C  inetpub foo plex  log message at  2008 10 07 13 19 58 DBD  ODBC  st execute failed   Microsoft  SQL Native Client String data  right truncation  SQL-22001  at C  inetpub foo plex line 25    Line 25 is the following   SELECT DISTINCT top 20 ZIP CODE  CITY  STATE FROM Zipcodes WHERE  ZIP CODE like    OR  CITY like    ORDER BY ZIP CODE   And lastly  this is perl code   Any ideas   EDIT  the issue here was that I was searching in the zip file with the string  74523   which is too long   I ended up just not adding the   if they give five digits

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I was facing the same issue  So  i created a stored Procedure and defined the size like  FromDate datetime   ToDate datetime   BL varchar 50  After defining the size in  BL varchar 50   i did not face any problem  Now it is working fine

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Either the parameter supplied for ZIP CODE is larger  in length  than ZIP CODEs column width or the parameter supplied for CITY is larger  in length  than CITYs column width    It would be interesting to know the values supplied for the two   placeholders

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I was facing the same issue  So  i created a stored Procedure and defined the size like  FromDate datetime   ToDate datetime   BL varchar 50  After defining the size in  BL varchar 50   i did not face any problem  Now it is working fine

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This is a known issue of the mssql ODBC driver  According to the Microsoft blog post      The ColumnSize parameter of SQLBindParameter refers to the number of characters in the SQL type  while BufferLength is the number of bytes in the application s buffer  However  if the SQL data type is varchar n  or char n   the application binds the parameter as SQL C CHAR or SQL C VARCHAR  and the character encoding of the client is UTF-8  you may get a  String data  right truncation  error from the driver even if the value of ColumnSize is aligned with the size of the data type on the server  This error occurs since conversions between character encodings may change the length of the data  For example  a right apostrophe character  U 2019  is encoded in CP-1252 as the single byte 0x92  but in UTF-8 as the 3-byte sequence 0xe2 0x80 0x99    You can find the full article here

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Either the parameter supplied for ZIP CODE is larger  in length  than ZIP CODEs column width or the parameter supplied for CITY is larger  in length  than CITYs column width    It would be interesting to know the values supplied for the two   placeholders

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I got around the issue by using a convert on the      so my code looks like convert char 50     and that got rid of the truncation error

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This is a known issue of the mssql ODBC driver  According to the Microsoft blog post      The ColumnSize parameter of SQLBindParameter refers to the number of characters in the SQL type  while BufferLength is the number of bytes in the application s buffer  However  if the SQL data type is varchar n  or char n   the application binds the parameter as SQL C CHAR or SQL C VARCHAR  and the character encoding of the client is UTF-8  you may get a  String data  right truncation  error from the driver even if the value of ColumnSize is aligned with the size of the data type on the server  This error occurs since conversions between character encodings may change the length of the data  For example  a right apostrophe character  U 2019  is encoded in CP-1252 as the single byte 0x92  but in UTF-8 as the 3-byte sequence 0xe2 0x80 0x99    You can find the full article here

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Either the parameter supplied for ZIP CODE is larger  in length  than ZIP CODEs column width or the parameter supplied for CITY is larger  in length  than CITYs column width    It would be interesting to know the values supplied for the two   placeholders

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Either the parameter supplied for ZIP CODE is larger  in length  than ZIP CODEs column width or the parameter supplied for CITY is larger  in length  than CITYs column width    It would be interesting to know the values supplied for the two   placeholders

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I got around the issue by using a convert on the      so my code looks like convert char 50     and that got rid of the truncation error

[sql-server] What does the SQL Server Error "String Data, Right Truncation" mean and how do I fix it?

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