“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

For me, I defined column type as BIT (e.g. "boolean")

When I tried to set column value "1" via UI (Workbench), I was getting a "Data too long for column" error.

Turns out that there is a special syntax for setting BIT values, which is:

b'1'

Answer 2

Very old question, but I tried everything suggested above and still could not get it resolved.

Turns out that, I had after insert/update trigger for the main table which tracked the changes by inserting the record in history table having similar structure. I increased the size in the main table column but forgot to change the size of history table column and that created the problem.

I did similar changes in the other table and error is gone.

Answer 3

Change column type to LONGTEXT

Answer 4

I try to create a table with a field as 200 characters and I've added two rows with early 160 characters and it's OK. Are you sure your rows are less than 200 characters?

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Answer 5

in mysql if you take VARCHAR then change it to TEXT bcoz its size is 65,535 and if you can already take TEXT the change it with LONGTEXT only if u need more then 65,535.

total size of LONGTEXT is 4,294,967,295 characters

Answer 6

Varchar has its own limits. Maybe try changing datatype to text.!