# Solved - Alarm Journal Event truncated error

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/solved-alarm-journal-event-truncated-error/12200>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [October 5, 2016, 2:30pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/solved-alarm-journal-event-truncated-error/12200 "2016-10-05T14:30:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![Kraenbring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Kraenbring](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Kraenbring)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2016, 2:30pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/solved-alarm-journal-event-truncated-error/12200/1 "2016-10-05T14:30:43Z")

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Just throwing this out there for anyone else with this problem. If you see records stuck in your Store/Forward for the Alarm Journal Event saying “String or binary data would be truncated.”, you need to change a database table before retrying.

In the table, alarm\_events, change the strvalue field from varchar(255) to varchar(MAX).

After that, you can hit ‘retry’ and it won’t come back.

-MK