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                                         jassie 
                                        Constraint Violating Yak Guru 
                                         
                                        
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                                             Posted - 2012-03-22 : 17:52:19
                                            
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                                            | In a ssis 2008 r2 package that I want to write, there is one column that I am getting truncation errors on. This is a description column that is supplied by the customer. The length of the column can be any length that excel will allow. (Excel is the way I will obtain the data).What do you suggest I do in SSIS to avoid this truncation error? I do not think calling the column size varchar(max) or nvarchar(max) will solve the problem. | 
                                             
                                         
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                                     visakh16 
                                    Very Important crosS Applying yaK Herder 
                                     
                                    
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                                            Posted - 2012-03-22 : 21:21:49
                                          
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                                          | why? if you're not certain of length you can only go for BLOB types like varchar(max)------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------SQL Server MVPhttp://visakhm.blogspot.com/  | 
                                         
                                        
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