title: What does the SQL Server Error "String Data, Right Truncation" mean and how do I fix it?
body: <p>We are doing some performance tests on our website and we are getting the following error a lot:</p>
  
  <pre><code>*** 'C:\inetpub\foo.plex' log message at: 2008/10/07 13:19:58
  DBD::ODBC::st execute failed: [Microsoft][SQL Native Client]String data, right truncation (SQL-22001) at C:\inetpub\foo.plex line 25.
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Line 25 is the following:</p>
  
  <pre><code>SELECT DISTINCT top 20 ZIP_CODE, CITY, STATE FROM Zipcodes WHERE (ZIP_CODE like ?) OR (CITY like ?) ORDER BY ZIP_CODE
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>And lastly, this is perl code.</p>
  
  <p>Any ideas?</p>
  
  <p><strong>EDIT</strong>: the issue here was that I was searching in the zip file with the string "74523%" which is too long.  I ended up just not adding the % if they give five digits.</p>