• sql2k8 (4/22/2010)


    when i use these options i get the above mentioned issue '0123 but not 0123.

    Putting '0123 in Excel is the same as 0123. The ' serves as a text identifier, so that Excel knows that it is text and not a number, otherwise it would drop the leading zero.

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