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BUG: INSERT EXECUTE Statement May Fail with Error 213

Article ID: 171875

Article Last Modified on 10/3/2003

APPLIES TO

Microsoft SQL Server 6.5 Standard Edition

This article was previously published under Q171875

BUG #: 17040 (NT: 6.5)

SYMPTOMS

If you use the INSERT EXECUTE statement and specify a column list to insert into a table with a timestamp column, and the stored procedure called does not return a value for the timestamp column in the result set, the INSERT statement may fail with following error:

Msg 213, Level 16, State 1
Insert error: column name or number of supplied values does not match
table definition.

The following scenario demonstrates this problem:

   CREATE TABLE t1 (
      test1 int NOT NULL ,
      test2 timestamp NOT NULL ,
      )
   GO

   CREATE TABLE t2 (
      test1 int NOT NULL ,
      test2 timestamp NOT NULL ,
      )
   GO

   CREATE PROCEDURE sp_1 AS
       select test1 from t1
   GO

   insert into t1 values (1,null)
   insert into t1 values (2,null)
   insert into t1 values (3,null)
   GO

   insert into t2 (test1) exec sp_1
   GO

The INSERT fails with the error message described above.

WORKAROUND

To work around this problem, modify the stored procedure to return a NULL value for the timestamp column, as in the following example:

   CREATE PROCEDURE sp_1 AS
   select test1, null from t1
   GO

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Microsoft SQL Server version 6.5. We are researching this problem and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.

Additional query words: Transact-SQL transql tsql

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Microsoft KB Archive/171875

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