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NewbieCoding

Posted Tuesday, January 19, 2010 12:06 PM

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Gurus I am at my wits end. w00t

I cant find anything online to help resolve this error and its probably something so simple. Your help is greatly appreciated.

This is running from sql2005 and inserting into sql2008
The error I am receiving is
Insert Error: Column name or number of supplied values does not match table definition.

table:

CREATE TABLE [M].[tablename](
[column1] [int] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL,
[column2] [int] NULL,
[column3] [varchar](50) NULL,
[column4] [datetime] NULL,
[column5] [date] NOT NULL
) ON [PRIMARY]

Query:

--SET IDENTITY_INSERT server.[M].[tablename] ON
insert into opendatasource ('SQLNCLI',
'Data Source=REMOTESERVER;USER ID = User; PASSWORD=User')
.server.[M].[tablename]
VALUES ('column2', 'column3' ,GETDATE(),'column5')

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john.arnott

Posted Tuesday, January 19, 2010 1:21 PM

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One thing that jumps out at me is that column5 is defined as a date, but your script tries to insert a string ('column5') there that cannot be converted to that type.

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NewbieCoding

Posted Tuesday, January 19, 2010 1:38 PM

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I have code that will do the convert. but i didnt add it to the post :)

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john.arnott

Posted Tuesday, January 19, 2010 2:47 PM

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I just took a closer look at the code and realize that the insert doesn't specify the column names.

Try adding the list of columns right before the VALUES clause

insert into opendatasource ('SQLNCLI',
'Data Source=REMOTESERVER;USER ID = User; PASSWORD=User')
.server.[M].[tablename]
	(Column2, column3, column4, column5) -- Column names in same order as VALUES clause
VALUES ('column2', 'column3' ,GETDATE(),'column5')

Post #850126

Jeff Moden

Posted Tuesday, January 19, 2010 8:33 PM

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BWAA-HAA! Finally! I read a whole post before jumping in! BigGrin

Nicely done, John.

--Jeff Moden

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NewbieCoding

Posted Wednesday, January 20, 2010 8:04 AM

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Yep that worked thanks :) I knew I was missing something simple

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