CUSTOMER QUOTE:I now have an effective work around for Wells and Treatment plants - point data created from XY tables. What worked was: fixed the view in the sde column registry by creating the view with SQL then registering it using sdetable -o register (all integer fields in column registry are correct); then copy the records from the XY layer based on wells_active_view to a file geodatabase feature class (v 9.2), and then use the feature class from the gdb to append records to the SDE feature class. *ALSO*Export of source data to File Geodatabase as an interim step and then into the ArcSDE geodatabase alleviates this error.