in reply to dbd::oracle truncation error

Most likely, the error message is true:

ORA-24345: A Truncation or null fetch error occurred (DBD ERROR: ORA-0 +1406 error on field 8 of 122, ora_type 1

Have you looked at field 8? Maybe it gets truncated.

Also, Oracle error numbers are often quite googleable. Have you looked at the error description in the Oracle documentation?