[tlhunter]

> Infrastructure engineers generally care most about [...] never, ever, losing data.

Does MySQL still silently truncate varchar columns when the inserted text is too long?

[ncmncm]

See, that doesn't affect infrastructure engineers at all. It's "working as designed", howsoever bad the design is, so they get no calls about it.

[forinti]

Long time ago I was debugging an application and realised MySQL would let me put anything in a column that was supposed to be numeric. It didn't even check the length constraint.

[auspex]

No, it throws an error letting you the the text is too long for the field

[xdfgh1112]

Not for a very long time, look up strict mode.