Ben Nadel • 9/15/2026

Preventing Silent Database Value Truncation In ColdFusion

This article discusses a common issue in ColdFusion applications where database values are silently truncated during read or write operations. The author shares their experience with blog post content being truncated and explains how they fixed it by adding boot-time assertions in Application.cfc. The solution involves checking MySQL strict mode for writes and disabling CLOB/BLOB truncation for reads, with code examples.

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