BUG: INSERT EXECUTE Statement May Fail with Error 213

• Microsoft SQL Server, version 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.

   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

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.