=== is related to: S3613 === is related to: S3614 === on 20 Jul 2017, 15:26:19 Pierre-Yves Nicolas wrote: According to the Microsoft https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/t-sql/language-elements/fetch-transact-sql[reference for FETCH]: ____ The number of variables must match the number of columns in the cursor select list. ____ The code can be compiled with no issue, for example in a stored procedure. The following error is raised at runtime: ---- Msg 16924, Level 16, State 1, Line 61 Cursorfetch: The number of variables declared in the INTO list must match that of selected columns. ---- === on 7 Aug 2017, 15:03:24 Pierre-Yves Nicolas wrote: \[~massimo.paladin] Why minor? Such code triggers a failure at execution time.