Symptoms
Assume that you have a table participating in a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 or SQL Server 2014 peer-to-peer transactional replication, and the table contains large number of columns. When a conflict occurs for this table, the distribution agent may fail, and you receive the following error message:
String or binary data would be truncated. (Source: MSSQLServer, Error number: 8152)
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.