I am having trouble with this, and when I google the topic there aren't
any threads with solutions.
The field is postal code, and when I open the file in excel, it says
reads "the number in this cell is formatted as text". The
destination field in our table is nvarchar, and I formatted the excel
field as text so I don't know why it's not working. When it's
previewed in the DTS, there are already nulls so it's before sql
server gets it as far as I can tell. SSNs don't have this issue due to
the presence of dashes (I think)
Someone suggested the write a schema.ini file, but this is domething
I've never done, and I need more information. I couldn't find this
file and I am inexperienced in creating one from scratch.
Help please? tia!
Moe

Never used schema.ini files, but if this is a one off export, you can
manually alter the field properties within Excel.

Unfortunately, sometimes Excel applies so much "common sense" to its
formatting that the original value cannot be retrieved.

hope this helps.


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