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sqlstud
Posted Wednesday, October 10, 2012 12:37 AM
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Hi,

I have table "Trial1"

One of the columns is
DATERECEIVED DATETIME NULL

Loading data from Excel to staging table using ssis 2005.

Datareceived column contains data as below

17/12/2010
18/12/2011
DECLINED
NULL

I need to load the data as it is. But thing is that, datatype is datetime..

We can modify the column as varchar...

But i need to know whether is it possible to load the data whatever present in the excel?

Regards
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Posted Wednesday, October 10, 2012 8:15 AM


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sqlstud (10/10/2012)
Hi,

I have table "Trial1"

One of the columns is
DATERECEIVED DATETIME NULL

Loading data from Excel to staging table using ssis 2005.

Datareceived column contains data as below

17/12/2010
18/12/2011
DECLINED
NULL

I need to load the data as it is. But thing is that, datatype is datetime..

We can modify the column as varchar...

But i need to know whether is it possible to load the data whatever present in the excel?

Regards
SqlStud


Well it sort of depends on what you want. You currently have a datetime column but obviously "DECLINED" isn't going to work there. If you want to keep your datetime datatype (which I strongly recommend) then you probably need to make that NULL. If you want to maintain the data exactly as it is excel you will have to change to a varchar column.

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Well it sort of depends on what you want. You currently have a datetime column but obviously "DECLINED" isn't going to work there. If you want to keep your datetime datatype (which I strongly recommend) then you probably need to make that NULL. If you want to maintain the data exactly as it is excel you will have to change to a varchar column.



Thanks Sean..

I have changed the datatype to Varchar....

Please find the attachement.

While make a preview in OLEDB Source the data in the date column is displayed as NULL. But in excel sheet, it is "DECLINED".

Could you please give me the solution?

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Well it sort of depends on what you want. You currently have a datetime column but obviously "DECLINED" isn't going to work there. If you want to keep your datetime datatype (which I strongly recommend) then you probably need to make that NULL. If you want to maintain the data exactly as it is excel you will have to change to a varchar column.



Thanks Sean..

I have changed the datatype to Varchar....

Please find the attachement.

While make a preview in OLEDB Source the data in the date column is displayed as NULL. But in excel sheet, it is "DECLINED".

Could you please give me the solution?

Regards
SqlStud


I am with Sean - it's 100 times better to keep your dates in a datetime column and do something else with the DECLINED info - perhaps create another column to hold 'status', or whatever, and use that.

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Your Excel column is holding mixed datatypes, so you'll need to bring in the column as string and add IMEX=1 to the Excel connection string (Google it for details).

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Phil Parkin (10/11/2012)
Your Excel column is holding mixed datatypes, so you'll need to bring in the column as string and add IMEX=1 to the Excel connection string (Google it for details).


Thanks Phil...

I added IMEX=1 to the connection string..

But it displayed the error in OLEDB Source as



Error: SSIS Error Code DTS_E_CANNOTACQUIRECONNECTIONFROMCONNECTIONMANAGER. The AcquireConnection method call to the connection manager "Src_Product" failed with error code 0xC0202009. There may be error messages posted before this with more information on why the AcquireConnection method call failed.

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It is solved..

i made change in the connection string

Data Source=<path\xlsx filename>;Provider=Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0;Extended Properties="Excel 12.0;HDR=YES;IMEX=1";

Thanks to all

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