SQL Error while importing Data From Excel

Question

I am importing Data from excel sheet. I am struggling with the following problems -

• Executing (Error) Messages Error 0xc020901c: Data Flow Task 1: There was an error with output column "Intelligence" (21) on output "Excel Source Output" (9). The column status returned was: "Text was truncated or one or more characters had no match in the target code page.". (SQL Server Import and Export Wizard)

• Error 0xc020902a: Data Flow Task 1: The "output column "Intelligence" (21)" failed because truncation occurred, and the truncation row disposition on "output column "Intelligence" (21)" specifies failure on truncation. A truncation error occurred on the specified object of the specified component. (SQL Server Import and Export Wizard)

• Error 0xc0047038: Data Flow Task 1: SSIS Error Code DTS_E_PRIMEOUTPUTFAILED. The PrimeOutput method on component "Source - MainSheetData$" (1) returned error code 0xC020902A. The component returned a failure code when the pipeline engine called PrimeOutput(). The meaning of the failure code is defined by the component, but the error is fatal and the pipeline stopped executing. There may be error messages posted before this with more information about the failure. (SQL Server Import and Export Wizard)

Answer 1

turns out it only checks first 8 rows or so of the Excel sheet..so if it decides length is 225 and later on encounters more than 225 chars an error occurs , what I did to solve the problem was make a first fake row containing the worst scenario (max of everything) and problem solved !

Answer 2

Importing using CSV is difficult as the import process doesn't know the max length for any field. Therefore when it hits a row longer than the initial column length it errors.

Simply save your csv file as a excel workbook and re import. You'll need to delete an existing tables that were created before failute last time.

As it's excel, it can obtain the correct field length when creating the table.

Answer 3

I was having the same problem and had to manually go through Excel to find the problem. One time saver, if you click Report -> View Report at the bottom, it will open up a new window. If you scroll all the way to the bottom of the report, it will tell you how many rows were processed. It doesn't necessarily mean that the problem is in the next row, but at least you can skip going through all the rows before that.

What I did next in Excel was take only the amount of characters that would fit into SQL (i.e. LEFT([Column], 255) and truncate the rest.

It is not ideal, but it worked in my case.

Answer 4

I was banging my head against the wall with this same exact error.

Try importing into MS Access and then importing into SQL Server.

Answer 5

I was getting the same error while importing from Excel to SQL Server 2008. I was able to do it by exporting from xlsx to csv and then importing the csv file into Sql Server. Yes, I had to adjust the columns length by hand but it worked just fine!

Answer 6

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You need to change "On Error" option to Ignore and "On Truncation" option to Ignore in Review Data Type Mapping. This will solve the problem.