Data too long for column at row

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I have a field called “Service Details” that a user enters in information. There are several other fields that the user has to enter information into. Once all the necessary fields have the required information, I have a query that writes that data into a table. I keep getting an error saying, “Caused by: com.mysql.cj.jdbc.exceptions.MysqlDataTruncation: Data truncation: Data too long for column ‘serviceDetails’ at row 1”. I tried to just increase the size of that column, but still am receiving the error. I have a feeling that I need to change the datatype of ‘serviceDetails’. Currently, the datatype is VARCHAR, but I am not sure how to change that to something like VARCHAR(1000). Any insight would be appreciated. Thank you.

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Do you have MYSql workbench installed? You can make the change with the GUI, by selecting your table > right click > alter table.

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You may want to look into the TEXT, MEDIUMTEXT, and LONGTEXT data types, depending on how much might go into your text fields.

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alter table will do it.
Something like this I think (maybe check google to make sure :D)

ALTER TABLE table_name MODIFY column_name VARCHAR(1000)
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I tried that and received the following error:

java.sql.SQLSyntaxErrorException: You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ‘ALTER TABLE Reports MODIFY serviceDetails VARCHAR(1000)’ at line 9

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https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/alter-table.html

And make sure to check the documentation for the version you're using.