Server: Msg 8623, Level 16, State 1, Line 1
Internal Query Processor Error: The query processor could not produce a query plan. Contact your primary support provider for more information.

Now I’ve seen this error before, but it was supposed to have been fixed in Cumulative Update 3 for SQL Server 2005 SP 2 but apparently it hasn’t been.  I’m currently running build 3239 which is Cumulative Update 7.  (I’m running the x64 edition.)

The only difference between my query and what’s documented in the KB article is that I was doing a basic insert statement.

 INSERT INTO Table3
 (Table1Id, Table2Id)
 VALUES
 (@Table1Id, @Table2Id)

There are obviously no complex queries being run here.  However I did have relational integrity enabled through foreign keys.  I ended up having to remove the foreign key constraints from this table for the insert statement to work correctly.

Hopefully someone finds this info useful.

You can follow along with the Microsoft development teams progress on Microsoft Connect.  It’s feedback number 332815.

Denny

The syntax is:
CREATE TABLE TableName (Column1 INT, Column2 VARCHAR(10))
INSERT INTO TableName
(Column1, Column2)
VALUES
(1, 'test1'), (2, 'test2'), (3, 'test4')

I see this as being a very handy especially when doing an initial data load into a table as you can now load lots of data without having to run a lot of seperate insert statements.

Denny

 There are two ways to insert data into a table.  The first is to pass in each of the values, and the second is to insert the data from a select statement.

For both commands we’ll be using a new table with this definition.
IF EXISTS (SELECT * FROM sysobjects WHERE name = 'InsertTable')
DROP TABLE InsertTable
GO
CREATE TABLE InsertTable
(id INT,
name sysname)

First lets look at passing in the values. With this syntax we specify the names of the columns, and then specify each of the values.

INSERT INTO InsertTable
(id, name)
VALUES
(0, 'test')

Second we’ll look at the SELECT statement. There are two ways we can do this as well. The first is to load a single set of values with the select statement. When doing this you can optionally specify the column names or not.

INSERT INTO InsertTable
SELECT 0, 'test'

The second option with the SELECT statement is to use a SELECT statement from a table. All of the functionally of the SELECT statement is available when using the SELECT statement as part of the INSERT statement.

INSERT INTO InsertTable
SELECT id, name
FROM sysobjects

We can also do this with some of the more advanced functions of the SELECT statement.

INSERT INTO InsertTable
(name, id)
SELECT sysobjects.name, count(*)
FROM sysobjects
JOIN syscolumns ON sysobjects.id = syscolumns.id

I hope that you find this post useful. I encourage everyone to open up Books OnLine and read through the information on the INSERT statement. It includes more examples, and some of the other options which are available to you.

Denny