SQL Server: Cannot insert an explicit value into a timestamp column

Question

When using this statement

create table demo (
    ts timestamp
)

insert into demo select current_timestamp

I get the following error:

Answer 1

If you have a need to copy the exact same timestamp data, change the data type in the destination table from timestamp to binary(8) -- i used varbinary(8) and it worked fine.

This obviously breaks any timestamp functionality in the destination table, so make sure you're ok with that first.