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AskSQLTeam
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Posted - 04/28/2004 :  14:11:58  Show Profile  Visit AskSQLTeam's Homepage  Reply with Quote
tbrown writes "Am importing from Excel to SQL table. Field has mostly numbers but some rows have the word "FLEX". The import is importing the numbers fine but is changing the word "FLEX" to nulls. The field (region) is defined as [Region] nvarchar (10) NULL on the import. The field is defined as general in Excel. Here is an example of the data in Excel:

12
12
12
12
FLEX
12
12

The "flex" above is imported as a null value. I don't get it. Please help.

tbrown"

derrickleggett
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Posted - 04/28/2004 :  17:31:11  Show Profile  Visit derrickleggett's Homepage  Send derrickleggett an AOL message  Send derrickleggett a Yahoo! Message  Reply with Quote
When you import the data, you have the option to define your columns by clickingon transformation. You will notice that because the first so many rows are numeric it's trying to import this field that way. You need to change it to a varchar field and your data will come across fine.

MeanOldDBA
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