String or binary data would be truncated. The statement has been terminated.

String or binary data would be truncated. The statement has been terminated:

It is a little outdated.  PLEASE tell us the name of the column that is too short to hold the data.  We can figure it out, eventually, but it is often tedious.  The system knows the answer, so it should tell us.

This would greatly simplify developers' lives.   While you're at it, why not say whether it's STRING data or BINARY data?

This reminds me of a hypothetical error message that says "There's an error somewhere, but we're not going to tell you where it is.  You have to find it yourself."

All information that the system has, which can be given to the programmer, should be given.