# Quarantined items String or Binary Data would be truncated - Store and Forward error help

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**Created:** [November 3, 2022, 5:55pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/quarantined-items-string-or-binary-data-would-be-truncated-store-and-forward-error-help/66086 "2022-11-03T17:55:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sukhwant\_Singh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e79b87/32.png) [@Sukhwant\_Singh](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Sukhwant_Singh)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2022, 5:55pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/quarantined-items-string-or-binary-data-would-be-truncated-store-and-forward-error-help/66086/1 "2022-11-03T17:55:20Z")

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**Author:** ![plo](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/plo/32/33875_2.png) [@plo](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/plo)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2022, 10:25pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/quarantined-items-string-or-binary-data-would-be-truncated-store-and-forward-error-help/66086/2 "2022-11-10T22:25:10Z")

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Hello Sukhwant\_Singh,

That error usually suggest that the string/binary that's being inserted into the column is greater than the column type supports. The workaround would be to change the affected Column type from type varchar(255) to varchar(MAX). This would be done on the database side.

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**Author:** ![Sukhwant\_Singh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e79b87/32.png) [@Sukhwant\_Singh](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Sukhwant_Singh)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2022, 10:44pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/quarantined-items-string-or-binary-data-would-be-truncated-store-and-forward-error-help/66086/3 "2022-11-10T22:44:06Z")

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Thank You, I was able to do exactly what you suggested and it worked. Thanks! Sukhwant