Hi, I'm using the code, listed below, to access information from a Access database. It worked fine when the I had a text field that was limited to 50 characters, but I have since changed this column to be a memo field which holds unlimited characters. When I run the same script I get the following error message; 
Fri Jul 27 10:04:15 2001 err, DBD::ODBC::st fetchrow_arrayref failed: Microsoft
ODBC Microsoft Access DriverString data, right truncated on column number 6 (
free_text) (SQL-01004)(DBD: st_fetch/SQLFetch (long truncated) err=1)
Does anyone know why I'm getting this and why is it trying to truncate the data? Many Thanks Chris Heres the code; 
$sth = $dbh->prepare("select * from tasks where task_id = $id")
                 or &dienice
        ("AssignProblem:Can't prepare to get problem report: " . $dbh-
+>errstr );
        $sth->execute or &dienice
                ("AssignProblem:Can't get problem report $id: " . $dbh
+->errstr);
        while (@rows = $sth->fetchrow_array) {
                        push(@task, @rows);

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