I had this same exact error for a while and traced it to us accidentally
passing in a variable that was too large to one of our udfs. Once we
modified the udf to handle a larger input string the error went away.

-steve

On Fri, 2005-07-01 at 23:53 +1000, Alan McDonald wrote:

> > Hi,
> > Currently we are facing strange behavior of DB in linux (Linux
> Mandrake,
> > Athlon 64bit ~3GHZ ,Db ~ 3Gb). If someone executes something (Sp or
> > select), what returns exception "Numeric or string overflow",
> server
> > kills all connections, and all users have to reconnect to db. In win
> > envir. there appears only exception of overflow.Any ideas how to get
> > same behavior on linux ?
> >
> > Adomas
>
> I think I'd be checking the health of the database first - before I
> wanted
> such an error to pass quietly.
> If this error is not linked to a specific statement, then do a
> backup/restore cycle. If it's only one select or SP, then I'd be
> digging
> around to find out why it's happening.
> Alan
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