truncation
com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlDataTruncation: Data truncation: Data too long for column ‘column_name’
I faced the same issue in my Spring Boot Data JPA application when I was going to insert an image file in the database as bytes – it gave me the same error. After many R&D I found a solution like below. I added the following line in my application.properties file and it resolved the … Read more
SQL Server truncation and 8192 limitation
You can export the data to a flat file which will not be truncated. To do this: Right click the Database Click Tasks -> Export Data Select your Data Source (defaults should be fine) Choose “Flat File Destination” for the Destination type. Pick a file name for the output. On the “Specify Table Copy or … Read more
Ellipsis in the middle of a text (Mac style)
In the HTML, put the full value in a custom data-* attribute like <span data-original=”your string here”></span> Then assign load and resize event listeners to a JavaScript function which will read the original data attribute and place it in the innerHTML of your span tag. Here is an example of the ellipsis function: function start_and_end(str) … Read more
How to truncate a file in C?
If you want to preserve the previous contents of the file up to some length (a length bigger than zero, which other answers provide), then POSIX provides the truncate() and ftruncate() functions for the job. #include <unistd.h> int ftruncate(int fildes, off_t length); int truncate(const char *path, off_t length); The name indicates the primary purpose – … Read more
SQL Server silently truncates varchar’s in stored procedures
It just is. I’ve never noticed a problem though because one of my checks would be to ensure my parameters match my table column lengths. In the client code too. Personally, I’d expect SQL to never see data that is too long. If I did see truncated data, it’d be bleeding obvious what caused it. … Read more
Smart way to truncate long strings
Essentially, you check the length of the given string. If it’s longer than a given length n, clip it to length n (substr or slice) and add html entity … (…) to the clipped string. Such a method looks like function truncate(str, n){ return (str.length > n) ? str.slice(0, n-1) + ‘…’ : str; }; … Read more
Truncate a string to first n characters of a string and add three dots if any characters are removed
//The simple version for 10 Characters from the beginning of the string $string = substr($string,0,10).’…’; Update: Based on suggestion for checking length (and also ensuring similar lengths on trimmed and untrimmed strings): $string = (strlen($string) > 13) ? substr($string,0,10).’…’ : $string; So you will get a string of max 13 characters; either 13 (or less) … Read more