“Data too long for column” - why?

Question

I\'ve written a MySQL script to create a database for hypothetical hospital records and populate it with data. One of the tables, Department, has a column named Description,

Answer 1

With Hibernate you can create your own UserType. So thats what I did for this issue. Something as simple as this:

    public class BytesType implements org.hibernate.usertype.UserType {

         private final int[] SQL_TYPES = new int[] { java.sql.Types.VARBINARY };
     //...
    }

There of course is more to implement from extending your own UserType but I just wanted to throw that out there for anyone looking for other methods.