I have a local installation of SQLExpress, and accessing it using SQL Server Management Studio.
I created a new database BirdSite in SSMS, with a single table TMasterCountry, with these columns:
Id (int)
CountryName (varchar(50))
where Id is the primary, auto-incrementing key.
When I use the Script table as... option in the object explorer, I am able to view the empty table with this bit of SQL:
USE [BirdSite]
GO
SELECT [Id]
,[CountryName]
FROM [dbo].[TMasterCountry]
GO
without any issues.
However, using the same option to try inserting some data, brings up this SQL:
USE [BirdSite]
GO
INSERT INTO [dbo].[TMasterCountry]
([CountryName])
VALUES
(<CountryName, varchar(50),>)
GO
So I changed the line under VALUES to
(CountryName, 'test')
But when I try running the code, I get these errors:
Msg 207, Level 16, State 1, Line 4
Invalid column name 'CountryName'.
Msg 110, Level 15, State 1, Line 4
There are fewer columns in the INSERT statement than values specified in the VALUES clause. The number of values in the VALUES clause must match the number of columns specified in the INSERT statement.
Does anyone know what might be going on here? The column clearly does exist, as I can SELECT the data just fine.
Following some similar questions on SO, I have tried restarting SSMS and also tried refreshing the local Intellisense cache, but with no luck. I also tried surrounding CountryName in square brackets but with the same result.
Change it to:
USE [BirdSite]
GO
INSERT INTO [dbo].[TMasterCountry]
([CountryName])
VALUES
('test')
GO
<CountryName, varchar(50),> refers to name of column and it's datatype.
Syntax error; Should be
INSERT INTO [dbo].[TMasterCountry]
([CountryName])
VALUES
('test')
You need to replace the entire content between < and > with the value:
INSERT INTO [dbo].[TMasterCountry]
([CountryName])
VALUES
('test')
Related
Recently I realized I should have a primary key in this table, so I tried to add one by doing the following steps:
Added a new column with nullable values
Filled all the values with integers indexed from 1 - 178
Made the column not allow nulls - this saved fine with no warnings that there
were still null values
I set the identity column to Id (new column I created)
Tried to insert a new row and got the following message
Msg 208, Level 16, State 74, Procedure tr_dbo_SaveState_7d7e8c09-470a-4510-ac78-12bf952f3a14_Sender, Line 63 [Batch Start Line 0]
Invalid object name 'dbo_SaveState_7d7e8c09-470a-4510-ac78-12bf952f3a14/StartMessage/Insert'.
I thought maybe I had to set the identity seed to the lastvalue+1 but still got the same message. I can insert into other tables just fine, and when I put the wrong number of arguments into the VALUES() function I get a different (expected) error, but when doing what I do for other tables, and used to do for this table I now get the above error. Does it seem the insert function is missing for this table? BTW this user has all permissions so that shouldn't be an issue
I also tried undoing this but it seems like the INSERT method for this table has just been deleted, or is somehow unavailable.
I can still select from the table just fine
When I try to update values I don't get the error message if the WHERE clause always results to false, but if there is a row that it tries to update I get an error message - this is not the case when I right-click on the table and Edit top 200 rows, only when I try and do it through query
Can someone tell me what is going on here?
So I have a simple table location and it only has two columns; one is a number and the other varchar2.
I'm simply trying to insert some data into the locations table so I can get cracking with the other larger datasets but keep getting this damn error every time.
Error starting at line : 7 in command -
INSERT INTO location
VALUES (1, 'Head Office')
Error report -
ORA-01722: invalid number
NOTE: Before down-voting, YES - I have seen others posting about this but is usually for something less obvious than my situation where they are trying to enter a string into a number field or a number into a string field!
In my case however, the data in the INSERT statement is a number AND the data type is also NUMBER!
DATA STRUCTURE:
CREATE TABLE location(
locID NUMBER(4) NOT NULL,
locName VARCHAR2(100) NOT NULL
);
INSERT STATEMENT:
INSERT INTO location
VALUES (1, 'Head Office');
The error code can be seen above there where I first mentioned it.
Thanks in advance.
P.S. It may be worth mentioning that the ID field in 'location' table is being used as a FOREIGN KEY in a separate table 'employees'. I have however, checked that the data types matched!
EDIT #1: I'm using ORACLE SQL Developer
Always include the columns when doing an insert:
INSERT INTO location (locId, locname)
VALUES (1, 'Head Office');
From your description of the problem, this should not actually fix it. This is just a good habit.
The above is correct SQL for your table. If the error continues to happen it is probably coming from a trigger on the table.
Think like its stupid, you are getting number error from "head office" not from 1. Actually you are trying to insert string into number.
If you dont want to write column names to insert you should totally define all values in insert in place as located in table. I assume your table structure is
locId|locNumber
So your insert should be like below
insert into table values (1,'head office')
I hope you understand shortcut logic
I'm following an older tutorial learning Postgres, so it's possible maybe something has changed since it was published. In the tutorial (using psql) I create a table then do some insert statements. Here is the tutorial and corresponding psql commands that cause error:
http://www.postgresqlforbeginners.com/2010/11/create-table-and-constraints.html
create table people(
id int PRIMARY KEY,
name varchar NOT NULL
);
insert into people(0,'Steve Jobs');
insert into people(1,'Mike Markkula');
insert into people(2,'Mike Scott');
insert into people(3,'John Sculley');
insert into people(4,'Michael Spindler');
insert into people(5,'Gil Amelio');
insert into people(6,'Mike Scott');
I get this error for each insert statement:
ERROR: syntax error at or near "0"
LINE 1: insert into people(0,'Steve Jobs');
^
I've tried copy pasting, capitalizing the sql commands (ie INSERT), running the command from shell outside of psql, adding spaces, using " instead of ' quotes... All result in the same errors. Has something changed or am I possibly doing something wrong?
The problem is the missing values (as noted in a comment).
I want to make some suggestions. First, whenever you use insert, you should always list the columns. This is especially important if you are learning the language -- you should be learning good habits.
Second, you don't need multiple inserts. A shorter way to insert multiple rows is:
insert into people (id, name)
values (0,'Steve Jobs'),
(1,'Mike Markkula'),
(2,'Mike Scott'),
(3,'John Sculley'),
(4,'Michael Spindler'),
(5,'Gil Amelio'),
(6,'Mike Scott');
And you should learn about serial. A more common way to write this code would be:
create table people (
id serial PRIMARY KEY,
name varchar NOT NULL
);
insert into people (name)
values ('Steve Jobs'),
('Mike Markkula'),
('Mike Scott'),
('John Sculley'),
('Michael Spindler'),
('Gil Amelio'),
('Mike Scott');
The id is assigned automatically by the database (starting at 1 rather than 0).
I should add: I am personally uncomfortable with having varchar without a length. This is perfectly fine in Postgres, but some databases would interpret it as varchar(1).
New to sql statements etc and I have an issue with what i am doing using squirrelSQL on linux machine
I Created a table and used the following sql statements:-
INSERT INTO FIRSTTABLE VALUES
(11,'TEN','STEVE'),(21,'TWENTY','JO'),(31,'THIRTY','KIDS')
ALTER TABLE FIRSTTABLE
ADD SURNAME VARCHAR(15);
this works fine however when i attempt to insert data/values into the the surname row i keep experiencing errors, the SQL statement i am using is:-
INSERT INTO FIRSTTABLE (SURNAME)
VALUES ('THOMAS'),('THOMAS'),('THOMAS'),('THOMAS');
This particular statement returns the following error:-
Error: Column 'ID' cannot accept a NULL value.
SQLState: 23502
ErrorCode: 30000
I only wish to add data/values into the surname column,after creating a new column with the alter table statement, i have tried many different combinations including using a SELECT statement prior to the INSERT statement above which also gives errors any guidance will be greatly appreciated,
You are inserting into Surname, without assigning a value to the other fields. You are getting this error message because ID is blank, and should not.
Understand that INSERT creates new rows. If you wish to modify existing rows, use UPDATE
In this case you could use UPDATE FIRSTTABLE SET SURNAME='THOMAS';
Omitting the WHERE clause affects all the fields in the table.
Hope it helps, and good luck in your learning process!
The approach is wrong, you need to:
UPDATE FIRSTTABLE SET SURNAME='THOMAS' WHERE ID IN (11, 21, 31)
Inserting will add a new row to the table. So you need to update a row using
UPDATE FIRSTTABLE SET SURNAME="THOMAS" WHERE ID=11
At work we have a SQL Server database. I don't know the db that well. I have created a new column in the table for some new functionality....straight away I have started seeing errors
My statement was this:
ALTER TABLE users
ADD locked varchar(50) NULL
GO
The error is:
Insert Error: Column name or number of supplied values does not match table definition
I have read that the error message appears when during an INSERT operation either the number of supplied column names or the number of supplied values does not match the table definition.
But I have checked so many times and i have changed the PHP code to include this columns data yet I still receive the error.
I have run the SQL query directly on the db and still get the error.
Funny enough the query which gets the error is an Update.
UPDATE "users"
SET "users"."date_last_login" = GETDATE()
WHERE id = 1
Have you considered it could be a trigger causing it?
This is the error message you would get.
If its an Update action causing it check trigger actions that Updates on that table run.
Do it with:
#sp_helptrigger Users, 'UPDATE';
This will show triggers occuring with ‘update’ actions.
If there is a trigger, grab the triggers name and run the below (but replace TriggerNameHere with real trigger):
#sp_helptext TriggerNameHere;
This will give you any SQL that the trigger runs and could be the INSERT the error message is referring to.
Hope this helps
Aside from TRIGGERS,
the reason for that is because you are using implicit type of INSERT statement. Let's say your previous number of columns on the table is 3. You have this syntax of INSERT statement,
INSERT INTO tableName VALUES ('val1','val2','val3')
which executes normally fine. But then you have altered the table to add another column. All of your INSERT queries are inserting only three values on the table which doesn't matches to the total number of columns.
In order to fix the problem, you have to update all INSERT statements to insert 4 values on the table,
INSERT INTO tableName VALUES ('val1','val2','val3', 'val4')
and it will normally work fine.
I'll advise you to use the EXPLICIT type of INSERT wherein you have to specify the columns you want to insert values with. Eg,
INSERT INTO tableName (col1, col2, col3) VALUES ('val1','val2','val3')
in this ways, even if you have altered your tables by adding additional columns, your INSERT statement won't be affected unless the column doesn't have a default value and which is non-nullable.