SSIS Excel Import Forcing Incorrect Column Type

Question

I\'m trying to import a spreadsheet to our database using SSIS. For some reason SSIS wants to believe two of the columns are of type Double, when they contain character dat

Answer 1

You can also alter the registry to look at more values than just the first 8 rows. I have used this method and works quite well.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/281517