Issue inserting after upgrade to 2008

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Issue inserting after upgrade to 2008

Simon D Richards

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December 6, 2010 at 7:42 am

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Hi all, I have a problem on a newly upgraded (2005 to 2008) test machine. We have some legacy code (vb) that inserts into tables without defining the column names:
insert test_table
select 1, 2, 3
These inserts are now failing on incompatible data type as it looks like SQL 2008 applies some random order on the columns, if I change one of the procs to explicitly define the column names:
insert test_table col_1, col_2, col_3
select 1, 2, 3
then it works fine.
Unfortunately we have a lot of code like this, is this a roll back type of scenario or is there a database setting that will fix this?
Any advice appreciated!
Thanks
Simon

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Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 736078 More actions · Answer 1

There's no random order applied. The order that the columns are defined in is the order that is used. This works fine on SQL Server 2008:

CREATE TABLE MyTable (col1 INT, col2 int, col3 int)

go

INSERT mytable SELECT 1, 2, 3

You have some other issue. Is there an identity or other column that is in there? Perhaps a property was changed when you upgraded?

Simon D Richards Ten Centuries Points: 1048 More actions · Answer 2

Thanks for the reply, sorry I meant our instance not 2008 generally, wondering whether it was a bug or something.

weird thing is now it is doing exactly the opposite on the table, if I leave the column list off it inserts, when I leave it on it fails with : Operand type clash: date is incompatible with tinyint

just slightly baffled and this makes a good sounding board 🙂

Simon D Richards Ten Centuries Points: 1048 More actions · Answer 3

might be some form of corruption as now when I try and run the proc that does the insert I am getting:

Could not find database ID 4023. Database may not be activated yet or may be in transition. Reissue the query once the database is available. If you do not think this error is due to a database that is transitioning its state and this error continues to occur, contact your primary support provider. Please have available for review the Microsoft SQL Server error log and any additional information relevant to the circumstances when the error occurred.

and the database id changes everytime I run it. Our db IDs go up to 34 and that is it.