SQL Server Error 109: There are more columns in the INSERT statement than values specified in the VALUES clause

This is a commonly encountered error in SQL Server when inserting data into a table. The full error goes like this:

Msg 109, Level 15, State 1, Line 1
There are more 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.

This happens when you specify more columns in the INSERT statement than the number of values that you’re trying to insert with the VALUES clause.

This will occur if you accidentally omit one or more values from the VALUES clause.

You’d get a similar (but technically different) error if you tried to do the opposite – specify fewer columns in the INSERT statement than you try to insert.

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How to Remove a Database Mail Account from a Profile in SQL Server (T-SQL)

In SQL Server, you can use the sysmail_delete_profileaccount_sp stored procedure to remove a Database Mail account from a profile.

You can remove the account from a specific profile, or you can remove it from all profiles. You can also remove all accounts from a given profile.

The way it works is, you provide two arguments; the account name or its ID, and the profile name or its ID. If you omit the argument for the profile, the account is removed from all profiles. If you omit the argument for the account, then all accounts are removed from the profile.

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