Hi,
Im loading data from excel source into a table with all the columns as varchar, I found out that rows from excel with digit value are transformed to Null values into the destination table.
One workaround was to add single quote at the beginning of the digits from the excel file. Is there a way in the SSIS to do the transformation instead ofmanually updating the excel file?
any help...tnx..
Not that I know of and I've spent some time looking. Reading data from Excel is tricky. For example, the data type of the column can change from row-to-row, and Excel can store data that doesn't match the defined data type. These are pretty big challenges for an OLE DB provider trying to read it like a table.In several cases I've resorted to exporting my Excel source to a tab-delimited file for SSIS to read. At least you can automate this instead of having to manually fix each Excel file.|||You need to specify Import Mode by adding IMEX=1 to the connection string, in the Extended Properties argument along with the Excel version and HDR name/value pairs.
Please note that we have done our best to document this and other known issues in the topics for the Excel Source and the Excel Destination in BOL. This content has been further augmented for the upcoming Web refresh of BOL.
-Doug|||This type of problem was also applicable to DTS so this article should
probably still apply
Excel Inserts Null Values
(http://www.sqldts.com/default.aspx?254)
Allan
"DouglasL@.discussions.microsoft.com"
news:3b274106-b020-42bb-95cf-a1aeb554ea98@.discussions.microsoft.com: > You need to specify Import Mode by adding IMEX=1 to the connection > string, in the Extended Properties argument along with the Excel version > and HDR name/value pairs. > > Please note that we have done our best to document this and other known > issues in the topics for the Excel Source and the Excel Destination in > BOL. This content has been further augmented for the upcoming Web > refresh of BOL. > > -Doug
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