Posted by Erland Sommarskog on 03/02/06 01:16

John Bokma (john@castleamber.com) writes:
> "String or binary data would be truncated"
> Can MS SQL automatically do the truncation?

Yes, if you issue the command SET ANSI_WARNINGS OFF.

However, this is not really recommendable, as there are functionality
in SQL Server that requires ANSI_WARNINGS to be on.

So you are better off by truncating the data yourself, for instance
with cast or convert. Or bounce thata over a variable. SQL Server does
not complain if you assign a variable with an overlong value.


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Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, esquel@sommarskog.se

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