Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Importing Excel data with SQL Server Integration Services SSIS with unicode and non-unicode data issues

"If you have used SSIS to import Excel data into SQL Server you may have run into the issue of having to convert data from Unicode to non-Unicode."
 
This article discusses some different options for handling Unicode to non-Unicode warning messages that are fairly common if you deal with importing data from one source to another, for example from Excel to SQL.
 
 
In my case today I ended up just having to add a Data Conversion transformation between my Excel Source and SQL Server Destination to convert my data-types accordingly.

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