We had an issue at one place I worked (names withheld to protect the imbeciles) where there was a problem with some development code failing with a truncation error trying to put data into a varchar(50) field. It turns out the developers had allowed the data entry in the application to accept 500 characters figuring the database would "just sort it out".

However the best thing was when the department manager (who went on to become the IT director) called the DBA's into his office and demanded that we check the database for "any more of these varchars"...

We did find quite a few :w00t: