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

Option 1. Use Visual Basic to iterate through each column and format each column as Text.

Use the Text-to-Columns menu, don't change the delimination, and change "General" to "Text"