Why isn't “String or Binary data would be truncated” a more descriptive error?

Question

To start: I understand what this error means - I\'m not attempting to resolve an instance of it.

This error is notoriously difficult to troubleshoot

Answer 1

I had this error too, but I found what was causing:

description  <-- this is not error but is wrong
option1
option2
option3 

My MVC application recivies "value" as empty strig ant that causes exception