4123
MariaDBERRORNotableHIGH confidence

Too many columns in table definition

Production Risk

Low — DDL fails; no data is affected.

Why it happens
  1. 1A CREATE TABLE or ALTER TABLE attempts to define more than 4096 columns.

Fix

Normalize the table structure to reduce column count

Why this works

Split wide tables into related tables using a 1:1 relationship to stay within column limits.

What not to do

Sources
Official documentation ↗

MySQL 8.0 — 4123 ER_TOO_MANY_FIELDS2

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