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BUG: SELECT from More Than 224 Columns Fails with Column Permission

Article ID: 174855

Article Last Modified on 10/3/2003

Microsoft SQL Server 6.5 Standard Edition

This article was previously published under Q174855

SYMPTOMS

BUG #: 17241 (6.5)

Selecting from a table with 224 or more columns fails with the following error message if a user has column-level permission:

Msg 230, Level 14, State 1
SELECT permission denied on column Column224 of object TestTable1, database test, owner dbo

WORKAROUND

If the user is given SELECT permission on all columns, then he or she can select from individual columns.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in SQL Server version 6.5. We are researching this problem and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.

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