Yes, there is, although it might only work for native IB_Query components.

Please see about the DefaultNoLengthCheck property of the connection/database component.

Jason

I believe that when one assigns as string to a field that has a shorter length than the string (e.g. putting 'HELLO' in a VARCHAR(4)), that string will be silently truncated to fit (e.g. 'HELL'). Is there an option somewhere to instead throw an exception?