Question

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

Answer 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