Hello, I have an excel spreadsheet that I get from an outside source that I need to import into a database. It has 4 fields, 2 formatted as date and 2 formatted as time. If the date or time is not determinable but whoever inputs the data the value will come back as UTD instead of a date or time.
When I import using my SSIS package sometimes it takes the value in as UTD or date for example for a field, but many times it just drops it off and leaves all the dates, but for UTD it will insert a value of NULL.
I've tried the IMEX=1 one into the connection string and tried changing the data types of the fields in excel.
I ended up just saving the excel file as a text file and then importing it as all text in a tab delimted format. That is a fix until I can get the vendor to just send me a text file.
Import Field with various data types
Posted - 12/20/2012 : 14:05:14
