InstantForum.NET v2.9.0SQLServerCentralhttp://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/notifications@sqlservercentral.comTue, 21 May 2013 08:13:00 GMT20http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1422025-149-1.aspx//one or more characters had no match in the target code page//seems to be wierd characters, you could try a varbinary field instead of varcharThu, 21 Feb 2013 12:34:07 GMTbdloving 4446http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1422025-149-1.aspxWell, if the import file is invalid because it contains unquoted separators in the data, you will always struggle.You should get the producer of the data to remove invalid characters and/or look at using a more unusual character as a delimiter.The "pipe" symbol | is quite often used because it doesn't often appear in common language...Wed, 20 Feb 2013 11:59:00 GMTmister.magoohttp://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1422025-149-1.aspxToday it is a one-off. But I will be setting up a weekly process for future imports.I thought I would use the wizard the first time, then save it as a package for future use.There are probably some funky characters in the text strings that SQL doesn't like.EDIT: There were some commas in one of the columns that i removed, and in one text box there was 3 pages of diatribe about the economy that had 8,900 characters. I modifed those, and the import worked, but a cumbersome solution.Wed, 20 Feb 2013 06:59:53 GMThomebrew01http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1422025-149-1.aspxIs this a one-off import or are you setting up a repeatable process?Wed, 20 Feb 2013 06:13:41 GMTmister.magoohttp://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1422025-149-1.aspxI'm trying to import a .csv file. One column has text from a website comment filed, so there are all kinds of characters entered. Using the Import Wizard, I set the incoming column length to 8000, and the column in my staging table to varchar(max) or nvarchar(max), but I still get these messages. I removed any commas from the file, but there are ampersands and whatnot in that colum. A warning box sometimes comes up when defining the wizard options, and I choose "ignore" for data truncation, but no effect.Is there a foolproof way to "import everything" into a SQL table ? [code="plain"]Error 0xc02020a1: Data Flow Task 1: Data conversion failed. The data conversion for column "Status" returned status value 4 and status text "Text was truncated or one or more characters had no match in the target code page.". (SQL Server Import and Export Wizard) Error 0xc020902a: Data Flow Task 1: The "output column "Status" (14)" failed because truncation occurred, and the truncation row disposition on "output column "Status" (14)" specifies failure on truncation. A truncation error occurred on the specified object of the specified component.[/code]Wed, 20 Feb 2013 05:04:39 GMThomebrew01