KB3166545 - FIX: Truncation errors when you use bcp command to import data from large text files on a Chinese version of Windows

Applies To
SQL Server 2012 Service Pack 3 SQL Server 2012 Developer SQL Server 2012 Enterprise SQL Server 2012 Enterprise Core SQL Server 2012 Express SQL Server 2012 Standard SQL Server 2014 Developer - duplicate (do not use) SQL Server 2014 Enterprise - duplicate (do not use) SQL Server 2014 Enterprise Core - duplicate (do not use) SQL Server 2014 Standard - duplicate (do not use)

Symptoms

Consider the following scenario:

  • You execute a BCP command to import data from a text file on a system that has the system locale set to Chinese (Simplified, China).
  • The text file is large, for example, more than 30 megabytes (MB).
  • The field separator is set to multiple-bytes characters.

In this scenario, the data may not be imported correctly, and you receive an error message that resembles the following:

Note

SQLState = 22001, NativeError = 0
Error = [Microsoft][SQL Server Native Client 11.0]String data, right truncation

        
      

Resolution

The issue was first fixed in the following cumulative update of SQL Server:

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Status

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the "Applies to" section.

References

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