String or binary data would be truncated

[TZone]

Is there anything I can put in a stored procedure so instead of proc falling
over because of "String or binary data would be truncated" the offending
records are just truncated?

Thanks for any help!

[Erland Sommarskog]

TZone (TZ***@optus.com.au) writes:

Is there anything I can put in a stored procedure so instead of proc
falling over because of "String or binary data would be truncated" the
offending records are just truncated?

Yes, you can include SET ANSI_WARNINGS OFF.

Two caveats:

o ANSI_WARNINGS must be on for queries that involves linked servers,
indexed views and indexes on computed columns. Thus setting
ANSI_WARNINGS OFF can cause the query to fail to run much slower.
o Putting SET ANSI_WARNINGS OFF in a procedure will trigger a
recompilation of the procedure, so it might be better to set it
before calling the procedure.
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