What Is The Maximum Columns In INSERT Statement ??

Hello friends,

I am sorry to be posting this message in this forum. But thought if anyone does have any idea abt my problem, which i illustrate below.

I want to know what is the maximum number of columns that an INSERT statement can handle?

I have come across a situation where i need to insert 15 values in a table.

INSERT INTO myTable (col1, col2, col3,....., col15) VALUES (v1, v2, v3,...., v15).

Actual statement:

INSERT INTO BillSell (bnumber, stock, qty, price, tprice, seen, bill_id, brokerage, service_tax, brok_st, stt, brok_st_stt, total_cost, total_rate_pu, check)
VALUES ('ICICI 06-12-2004 reshma', 'RELIND', 10, 541.7375183271872, 5417.375183271873, 'no', 2402, 40.2375, 4.92507, 45.162569999999995, 6.771718979089841, 51.934288979089835, 5365.0, 536.5, 'check')


When I call this in Java program, it asks me to check the syntax of the statement as follows :

com.mysql.jdbc.exceptions.MySQLSyntaxErrorException: You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'check) VALUES ('ICICI 06-12-2004 reshma', 'RELIND', 10, 541.7375183271872, 5417.' at line 1

Please make notice that all the data types of the table columns and the values passed in the statement match.

Now the problem is that, when from the above INSERT statement, i remove the last column (i.e. the "check" column and its corresponding value passed i.e. 'check'), the code works fine. I observe here that now there are 14 columns in the statement.

So i need the solutions for this. I cannot move further in the program......

Please help.

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