Error Number:8152,State:10,Class:16 String or binary data would be truncated. The statement has been terminated. – Entity Framework

Hi everyone,

I ran into the following error after adding model validation attributes to a database with existing values:

The solution is pretty straightforward if you’re happy to truncate the values. Simply run the query below, swapping Title for your column name, Products for your table name and 25 for your new column length:

UPDATE Products
SET Title = LEFT(Title, 25)
WHERE LEN(Title) > 25

You should then be able to run update-database without any issues:

Thanks to David in for his answer on Stackoverflow: https://stackoverflow.com/a/24931522/522859