• I'm struggling with the datetime2 format.

    I get this message:

    Msg 8152, Level 16, State 17, Line 1

    String or binary data would be truncated.

    from this line:

    CASE WHEN [Entered_Dttm] IS NULL THEN 'NULL' ELSE 'CONVERT(DATETIME2, ' + master.sys.fn_varbintohexstr (CONVERT(BINARY(8), [Entered_Dttm])) + ')' END + ', ' +

    of this select statement:

    SELECT 'INSERT INTO D_FORMATTED_ITEM_CODE' +

    '(' +

    '[Formatted_Item_Code_Id],' +

    '[Item_Code_GUID],' +

    '[Formatted_Item_Code],' +

    '[Format_Type_Id],' +

    '[Entered_Dttm],' +

    '[Entered_By]' +

    ')' +

    ' VALUES (' +

    CASE WHEN [Formatted_Item_Code_Id] IS NULL THEN 'NULL' ELSE 'CONVERT(UNIQUEIDENTIFIER, ' + master.sys.fn_varbintohexstr (CONVERT(BINARY(16), [Formatted_Item_Code_Id])) + ')' END + ', ' +

    CASE WHEN [Item_Code_GUID] IS NULL THEN 'NULL' ELSE 'CONVERT(UNIQUEIDENTIFIER, ' + master.sys.fn_varbintohexstr (CONVERT(BINARY(16), [Item_Code_GUID])) + ')' END + ', ' +

    CASE WHEN [Formatted_Item_Code] IS NULL THEN 'NULL' ELSE '''' + REPLACE([Formatted_Item_Code], '''', '''''') + '''' END + ', ' +

    CASE WHEN [Format_Type_Id] IS NULL THEN 'NULL' ELSE CONVERT(VARCHAR(40), [Format_Type_Id]) END + ', ' +

    CASE WHEN [Entered_Dttm] IS NULL THEN 'NULL' ELSE 'CONVERT(DATETIME2, ' + master.sys.fn_varbintohexstr (CONVERT(BINARY(8), [Entered_Dttm])) + ')' END + ', ' +

    CASE WHEN [Entered_By] IS NULL THEN 'NULL' ELSE '''' + REPLACE([Entered_By], '''', '''''') + '''' END +

    ')'

    FROM D_FORMATTED_ITEM_CODE

    is there any easy type conversion I can use?

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