I wanna write insert command in sql 2005.
I have 10 Columns, some of them can be null.
I use this command:
Insert Into TableName Values(x,y)
since the others can be null, I don't bring them in command.
cause, number of null-able columns are different, I can't bring exact null values.
but I've got this error:Column name or number of supplied values does not match table definition.
what can I do?
1 - Accept some of the past answers to your questions.
2 - Supply which fields you are inserting. In a 5 column table, you can say
INSERT INTO Table (col2, col4)
VALUES (col2value, col4value)
Related
I am trying to insert rows into an Oracle 19c table that we recently added a GENERATED ALWAYS AS IDENTITY column (column name is "ID"). The column should auto-increment and not need to be specified explicitly in an INSERT statement. Typical INSERT statements work - i.e. INSERT INTO table_name (field1,field2) VALUES ('f1', 'f2'). (merely an example). The ID field increments when typical INSERT is executed. But the query below, that was working before the addition of the IDENTITY COLUMN, is now not working and returning the error: ORA-00947: not enough values.
The field counts are identical with the exception of not including the new ID IDENTITY field, which I am expecting to auto-increment. Is this statement not allowed with an IDENTITY column?
Is the INSERT INTO statement, using a SELECT from another table, not allowing this and producing the error?
INSERT INTO T.AUDIT
(SELECT r.IDENTIFIER, r.SERIAL, r.NODE, r.NODEALIAS, r.MANAGER, r.AGENT, r.ALERTGROUP,
r.ALERTKEY, r.SEVERITY, r.SUMMARY, r.LASTMODIFIED, r.FIRSTOCCURRENCE, r.LASTOCCURRENCE,
r.POLL, r.TYPE, r.TALLY, r.CLASS, r.LOCATION, r.OWNERUID, r.OWNERGID, r.ACKNOWLEDGED,
r.EVENTID, r.DELETEDAT, r.ORIGINALSEVERITY, r.CATEGORY, r.SITEID, r.SITENAME, r.DURATION,
r.ACTIVECLEARCHANGE, r.NETWORK, r.EXTENDEDATTR, r.SERVERNAME, r.SERVERSERIAL, r.PROBESUBSECONDID
FROM R.STATUS r
JOIN
(SELECT SERVERSERIAL, MAX(LASTOCCURRENCE) as maxlast
FROM T.AUDIT
GROUP BY SERVERSERIAL) gla
ON r.SERVERSERIAL = gla.SERVERSERIAL
WHERE (r.LASTOCCURRENCE > SYSDATE - (1/1440)*5 AND gla.maxlast < r.LASTOCCURRENCE)
) )
Thanks for any help.
Yes, it does; your example insert
INSERT INTO table_name (field1,field2) VALUES ('f1', 'f2')
would also work as
INSERT INTO table_name (field1,field2) SELECT 'f1', 'f2' FROM DUAL
db<>fiddle demo
Your problematic real insert statement is not specifying the target column list, so when it used to work it was relying on the columns in the table (and their data types) matching the results of the query. (This is similar to relying on select *, and potentially problematic for some of the same reasons.)
Your query selects 34 values, so your table had 34 columns. You have now added a 35th column to the table, your new ID column. You know that you don't want to insert directly into that column, but in general Oracle doesn't, at least at the point it's comparing the query with the table columns. The table has 35 columns, so as you haven't said otherwise as part of the statement, it is expecting 35 values in the select list.
There's no way for Oracle to know which of the 35 columns you're skipping. Arguably it could guess based on the identity column, but that would be more work and inconsistent, and it's not unreasonable for it to insist you do the work to make sure it's right. It's expecting 35 values, it sees 34, so it throws an error saying there are not enough values - which is true.
Your question sort of implies you think Oracle might be doing something special to prevent the insert ... select ... syntax if there is an identity column, but in facts it's the opposite - it isn't doing anything special, and it's reporting the column/value count mismatch as it usually would.
So, you have to list the columns you are populating - you can't automatically skip one. So you statement needs to be:
INSERT INTO T.AUDIT (IDENTIFIER, SERIAL, NODE, ..., PROBESUBSECONDID)
SELECT r.IDENTIFIER, r.SERIAL, r.NODE, ..., r.PROBESUBSECONDID
FROM ...
using the actual column names of course if they differ from the query column names.
If you can't change that insert statement then you could make the ID column invisible; but then you would have to specify it explicitly in queries, as select * won't see it - but then you shouldn't rely on * anyway.
db<>fiddle
I am having an issue with an sql query used in job automation
The procedure inserts data from a source table(48 columns) to destination table(49 columns where the 49th/last column is NOT in the source table). But all columns in the destination and source table accept null, so that shouldn't be an issue copying from 48 columns to 49 columns.
It throws this error :
Column name or number of supplied values does not match table definition. [SQLSTATE 21S01] (Error 213). The step failed.
It should just insert null into the 49th column and I have checked the column names and they correspond.
Let's treat this like I can't delete the 49th column.
Please what can I do here?
Accepting NULL doesn't mean you can specify 49 cols and 48 values in the sql INSERT statement. The number of columns and number of values must match exactly. Either drop extra column from INSERT list or add 49th value (NULL I guess) to the values list. In both cases if column is NULLable, it will be set to NULL.
First, if you have code that's not working, you should post it so we can tell for sure what's happening. But I'd be pretty willing to bet you're trying to short cut the process and use something like this:
INSERT tableB
SELECT *
FROM tableA
But the tables don't have the same number of columns, so the SQL Engine doesn't know which source column goes into which destination column. You need to provide an explicit list so it knows which one you intend to ignore:
INSERT tableB
(
col1,
col2,
...
col48
)
SELECT
col1,
col2,
...
col48
FROM tableA;
I'm currently updating an existing DB table.
The Table has 14924 rows, I'm trying to insert new data which is requiring 15000 rows.
When running my Query, I'm getting this error message:
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.
Is there a way to add the additional 76 rows as needed?
I'm using MSSMS (Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio)
Query I'm running:
Insert INTO [survey].[dbo].[uid_table] (UID)
VALUES ('F32975648JX2','F32975681JX2',..+14998 more)
Should I clear the Column first by setting to NULL
What I'm trying to do is add all the VALUES to the UID column
My Columns are currently set as is:
UID | Email | Name | Title | Company | Address1 | Address2 | DateCreated |
All columns I have set to NULL except for UID, which already contains Values like above. Just need to replace the old values with the new ones. BUt getting error stated above
For inserting more than one value into a column you need to make the Insert statement in this format
Insert INTO [survey].[dbo].[uid_table] (UID)
VALUES ('F32975648JX2'),
('F32975681JX2'),
..+14998 more)
Also note that, The maximum number of rows that can be constructed by inserting rows directly in the VALUES list is 1000. So you have to break the INSERT statement into 1000 rows per INSERT
To insert more than 1000 rows, use one of the following methods
Create multiple INSERT statements
Use a derived table
Bulk import the data by using the bcp utility or the BULK INSERT
statement
Derived table approach
Insert INTO [survey].[dbo].[uid_table] (UID)
select 'F32975648JX2'
Union All
Select 'F32975681JX2',
Union All
..+14998 more)
your problem is in your INSERT statment
An example is
INSERT INTO table (col1, col2, col3,...)
VALUES(valCol1, valcol2, valcol3...)
Ensure that the number of columns (col1, col2, col3...) is the same number that VALUES (valCol1, valcol2, valcol3...) 3 columns and 3 values in this case
From the Postgres documentation on INSERT, default keyword should auto increment columns declared as serial.But when I combine it with select statement, it throws me an error
syntax error at or near "DEFAULT"
Here is the insert statement
insert into abc (id,date,serialnumber) (DEFAULT,select (data.date,data.serialnumber) from data)
DEFAULT can only be as a "literal" for an INSERT statement in the VALUES clause. I cannot be used inside the column list of a SELECT statement even if that is used for an INSERT.
To apply the default value, simply leave out the column:
insert into abc (date,serialnumber)
select date, serialnumber
from data
For an example see here: http://sqlfiddle.com/#!12/d291a/1
Also: do not put a column list into parantheses. (a,b) is something different than a,b in Postgres. The first is a single record with two attributes, the second are two different columns.
See this SQLFiddle demo here: http://sqlfiddle.com/#!12/3a890/1 and note the difference between the two results.
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.