From what I've seen, importing data from excel can be very hazardous so I avoid it whenever possible. The import process will interpret your data type by sampling the data irregardless of how you define the data type in SSIS or on your destination table. So if the first part of your file contains numbers and the last contains characters... the import process will simply throw out the data with characters and load NULL's without any warnings or errors. I know there is a reg key you can set to determine the number of records that are sampled, but the fact that the Excel driver does this is bad enough for me. :crazy:

David