Import Data Wizard Does Not Like Data Type I Choose For A Column

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Haoest picture Haoest · Apr 23, 2009 · Viewed 11.4k times · Source

Does anybody else have this same problem, when you import data from Excel file to MSSQL Server 2005, if some column contains mostly numeric data, but even if you set the column type to varchar, the wizard fails to import those fields that fail to parse as numbers?

Answer

Joe L. picture Joe L. · Apr 23, 2009

Try this (Note: These instructions are based on Excel 2007)...

The following steps should force Excel to treat the column as text:

Open your spreadsheet with Excel.

Select the whole column that contains your "mostly numeric data" by clicking on the column header.

Click on the Data tab on the ribbon menu.

Select Text to Columns. This will bring up the Convert Text to Columns Wizard.

-On Step 1: Click Next

-On Step 2: Click Next

-On Step 3: Select Text and click Finish

Save your Excel sheet.

Retry the import using the SQL Server 2005 Import Data Wizard.

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