ORA-01406: fetched column value was truncated

I got ” ORA-01406: fetched column value was truncated ” error in Oracle.

ORA-01406: fetched column value was truncated

Details of error are as follows.

ORA-01406 fetched column value was truncated

Cause: In a host language program, a FETCH operation was forced to truncate a character string.
 The program buffer area for this column was not large enough to contain the entire string.
 The cursor return code from the fetch was +3.

Action: Increase the column buffer area to hold the largest column value or perform 
other appropriate processing.

fetched column value was truncated

This ORA-01406 errors are related with the host language program, a FETCH operation was forced to truncate a character string.

The program buffer area for this column was not large enough to contain the entire string.
The cursor return code from the fetch was +3.

To solve this error, you should increase the column buffer area to hold the largest column value or perform
other appropriate processing.

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