Question

I’ve created a table like this :

create table tbl(
address varchar(5000));

If i want to insert data in to the field address, if the length of data inserted exceeds the length of the field address. Then first truncate the the data and insert it in to address.
please give me the correct query for the above problem….

Answer 1

I’ve tested on my mysql (5.5.8), create table as follows:

create table test ( a varchar(10) );

then insert

insert into test(a) values('1234567890112');

then select

select * from test;

gives me 1234567890

I think mysql will automatically truncate anything bigger you pass in to the field, so you don’t need to worry, unless you need to log it in your application level everytime that happens