diff --git a/db-service/lib/cqn2sql.js b/db-service/lib/cqn2sql.js
index a678b2159..c5a2eebc5 100644
--- a/db-service/lib/cqn2sql.js
+++ b/db-service/lib/cqn2sql.js
@@ -886,13 +886,16 @@ class CQN2SQLRenderer {
       return // REVISIT: mtx sends an insert statement without entries and no reference entity
     }
     const transitions = this.srv.resolve.transitions(q)
-    const columns = elements
-      ? ObjectKeys(elements).filter(c => this.physical_column(elements, c)
+    const transitionsTargetElements = transitions.target.elements
+    
+    const filteredElements = !elements ? {} :
+      ObjectKeys(elements).filter(c => this.physical_column(elements, c)
         && (c = transitions.mapping.get(c)?.ref?.[0] || c)
-        && c in transitions.target.elements
-        && this.physical_column(transitions.target.elements, c)
-      )
-      : ObjectKeys(INSERT.entries[0])
+        && c in transitionsTargetElements
+        && this.physical_column(transitionsTargetElements, c)
+      ).reduce( (res, key) => (res[key] = elements[key], res), {} )
+    
+    const columns = elements ? ObjectKeys(filteredElements) : ObjectKeys(INSERT.entries[0])
 
     /** @type {string[]} */
     this.columns = columns
@@ -919,9 +922,16 @@ class CQN2SQLRenderer {
       this.entries = [[...this.values, stream]]
     }
 
-    const extractions = this._managed = this.managed(columns.map(c => ({ name: c })), elements)
-    return (this.sql = `INSERT INTO ${this.quote(entity)}${alias ? ' as ' + this.quote(alias) : ''} (${this.columns.map(c => this.quote(transitions.mapping.get(c)?.ref?.[0] || c))
-      }) SELECT ${extractions.slice(0, columns.length).map(c => c.insert)} FROM json_each(?)`)
+    const mappedTransitionsTargets = new Set(columns.map(c => transitions.mapping.get(c)?.ref?.[0]).filter(Boolean))
+    const targetElementsFiltered = Object.fromEntries(
+      ObjectKeys(transitionsTargetElements)
+        .filter(key => !mappedTransitionsTargets.has(key))
+        .map(key => [key, transitionsTargetElements[key]]),
+    )
+
+    const extractions = this._managed = this.managed(columns.map(c => ({ name: c })), { ...targetElementsFiltered, ...filteredElements })
+    return (this.sql = `INSERT INTO ${this.quote(entity)}${alias ? ' as ' + this.quote(alias) : ''} (${extractions.map(c => this.quote(transitions.mapping.get(c.name)?.ref?.[0] || c.name))
+      }) SELECT ${extractions.map(c => c.insert)} FROM json_each(?)`)
   }
 
   async *INSERT_entries_stream(entries, binaryEncoding = 'base64') {
@@ -1511,7 +1521,7 @@ class CQN2SQLRenderer {
           if (columns.find(c => c.name === e)) return false
           return true
         })
-        .map(name => ({ name, sql: 'NULL' }))
+        .map(name => ({ name }))
 
     const keys = ObjectKeys(elements).filter(e => elements[e].key && !elements[e].isAssociation)
     const keyZero = keys[0] && this.quote(keys[0])
diff --git a/hana/lib/HANAService.js b/hana/lib/HANAService.js
index 8ffd12af5..9f0fcb0dd 100644
--- a/hana/lib/HANAService.js
+++ b/hana/lib/HANAService.js
@@ -792,18 +792,26 @@ class HANAService extends SQLService {
 
       const entity = q._target ? this.table_name(q) : INSERT.into.ref[0]
       const transitions = this.srv.resolve.transitions(q)
+      const transitionsTargetElements = transitions.target.elements
 
-      const columns = elements
-        ? ObjectKeys(elements).filter(c => this.physical_column(elements, c)
+      const filteredElements = !elements ? {} :
+        ObjectKeys(elements).filter(c => this.physical_column(elements, c)
           && (c = transitions.mapping.get(c)?.ref?.[0] || c)
-          && c in transitions.target.elements
-          && this.physical_column(transitions.target.elements, c)
+          && c in transitionsTargetElements
+          && this.physical_column(transitionsTargetElements, c)
           && !elements[c]?.[SYSTEM_VERSIONED]
-        )
-        : ObjectKeys(INSERT.entries[0])
-      this.columns = columns
+        ).reduce( (res, key) => (res[key] = elements[key], res), {} )
+
+      const columns = this.columns = elements ? ObjectKeys(filteredElements) : ObjectKeys(INSERT.entries[0])
+
+      const mappedTransitionsTargets = new Set(columns.map(c => transitions.mapping.get(c)?.ref?.[0]).filter(Boolean))
+      const targetElementsFiltered = Object.fromEntries(
+        ObjectKeys(transitionsTargetElements)
+          .filter(key => !mappedTransitionsTargets.has(key))
+          .map(key => [key, transitionsTargetElements[key]]),
+      )
 
-      const extractions = this._managed = this.managed(columns.map(c => ({ name: c })), elements).slice(0, columns.length)
+      const extractions = this._managed = this.managed(columns.map(c => ({ name: c })), { ...targetElementsFiltered, ...filteredElements })
 
       // REVISIT: @cds.extension required
       const extraction = extractions.map(c => c.extract)
@@ -843,7 +851,7 @@ class HANAService extends SQLService {
       // With the buffer table approach the data is processed in chunks of a configurable size
       // Which allows even smaller HANA systems to process large datasets
       // But the chunk size determines the maximum size of a single row
-      return (this.sql = `INSERT INTO ${this.quote(entity)} (${this.columns.map(c => this.quote(transitions.mapping.get(c)?.ref?.[0] || c))
+      return (this.sql = `INSERT INTO ${this.quote(entity)} (${extractions.map(c => this.quote(transitions.mapping.get(c.name)?.ref?.[0] || c.name))
         }) WITH SRC AS (SELECT ? AS JSON FROM DUMMY UNION ALL SELECT TO_NCLOB(NULL) AS JSON FROM DUMMY)
       SELECT ${converter} FROM JSON_TABLE(SRC.JSON, '$' COLUMNS(${extraction}) ERROR ON ERROR) AS NEW`)
     }
diff --git a/test/scenarios/bookshop/insert.test.js b/test/scenarios/bookshop/insert.test.js
index 60c345b49..11a191406 100644
--- a/test/scenarios/bookshop/insert.test.js
+++ b/test/scenarios/bookshop/insert.test.js
@@ -49,4 +49,13 @@ describe('Bookshop - Insert', () => {
     const res = await SELECT.from(Books, {ID: 344})
     expect(res.genre_ID).to.be.eq(10)
   })
+
+  test('insert with default fields excluded from projection', async () => {
+    const { RenameKeys, Books } = cds.entities('AdminService')
+    await cds.run(INSERT({ foo: 345 }).into(RenameKeys))
+    const res = await SELECT.from(Books, { ID: 345 })
+    expect(res).to.containSubset({ genre_ID: 10, createdBy: 'anonymous', modifiedBy: 'anonymous' })
+    expect(res.createdAt).to.not.be.null
+    expect(res.modifiedAt).to.not.be.null
+  })
 })