diff --git a/src/windows/SQLite3-Win-RT/SQLite3/Statement.cpp b/src/windows/SQLite3-Win-RT/SQLite3/Statement.cpp
index 50fdea13f..f50dc323c 100644
--- a/src/windows/SQLite3-Win-RT/SQLite3/Statement.cpp
+++ b/src/windows/SQLite3-Win-RT/SQLite3/Statement.cpp
@@ -45,7 +45,14 @@ namespace SQLite3
 
   Platform::String^ Statement::ColumnText(int index)
   {
-    return ref new Platform::String(static_cast<const wchar_t*>(sqlite3_column_text16(statement, index)));
+	  // To preserve embedded nulls within text data and fix truncation on first null char,
+	  // create platform string with corresponding length:
+	  // (length is number of bytes in text column divided by size of one wide character.
+	  //  see https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=422690
+	  //  and https://www.sqlite.org/capi3ref.html#sqlite3_column_blob)
+	  // Question: is this always correct in all conditions?
+	  unsigned int length = sqlite3_column_bytes16(statement, index) / sizeof(wchar_t);
+	  return ref new Platform::String(static_cast<const wchar_t*>(sqlite3_column_text16(statement, index)), length);
   }
 
   int Statement::ColumnInt(int index)
@@ -65,7 +72,14 @@ namespace SQLite3
 
   int Statement::BindText(int index, Platform::String^ val)
   {
-    return sqlite3_bind_text16(statement, index, val->Data(), -1, SQLITE_TRANSIENT);
+	  // To preserve embedded nulls within text data and fix truncation on first null char,
+	  // pass number of text bytes to sqlite3_bind_text16() instead of -1 as third parameter:
+	  // (number of bytes are calculated by multiplying string length with the size of one wide character.
+	  //  see https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=422690
+	  //  and https://www.sqlite.org/capi3ref.html#sqlite3_bind_blob)
+	  // Question: is this always correct in all conditions?
+	  int length = val->Length() * sizeof(wchar_t);
+	  return sqlite3_bind_text16(statement, index, val->Begin(), length, SQLITE_TRANSIENT);
   }
 
   int Statement::BindInt(int index, int val)