On 18 Apr 2014, at 5:28pm, Dominique Devienne <ddevie...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm not sure where you get that declaring a column as varchar() > implicitly truncate While I can't find any reference one way or another in a SQL standard, all implementations I've seen that understand VARCHAR(n) truncate for any column defined with a number inside the brackets: <http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms176089.aspx> "When character expressions are converted to a character data type of a different size, values that are too long for the new data type are truncated. " <https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/char.html> "If strict SQL mode is not enabled and you assign a value to a CHAR or VARCHAR column that exceeds the column's maximum length, the value is truncated to fit and a warning is generated." ('warnings' in MySQL are not an indication of failure and are routinely ignored.) SQLite is unusual in that it ignores the number in the brackets. I don't know what various implementations do for just VARCHAR or for VARCHAR() with no number inside the brackets. Simon. _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
