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Default Importing from Excel - 09-06-2004 , 05:19 PM






Hi,

When I import from excel the first few columns decide the
data type. I my first few cokumns are text followed by
numeric. The value are stored as null in the Sql db after
importing. This is know problem in Sql, is there any way I
can bypass this programatically.

Regards
Sats


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Default Re: Importing from Excel - 09-07-2004 , 12:08 AM






This will help

Excel Inserts Null Values
(http://www.sqldts.com/default.aspx?254)

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Hi,

When I import from excel the first few columns decide the
data type. I my first few cokumns are text followed by
numeric. The value are stored as null in the Sql db after
importing. This is know problem in Sql, is there any way I
can bypass this programatically.

Regards
Sats




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