Cannot create a row of size 8937 which is greater than the allowable maximum of 8060

Question

We are getting this error on a table in our database:

Cannot create a row of size 8937 which is greater than the allowable maximum of 8060.

Answer 1

I have this problem today. but this table's column is small and only hundreds rows. and this table work good before. I cost many time to research.

finally, I backup this table data. I delete the table. and create same new table; then restore data. everything is ok.

It shows the old table maybe crashed inside. maybe SQL server bug. anyway, issue is gone. hope save others time.

backgroud: MS SQL 2012