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

I had the same problem. The problem sit in the Excel Source task. When you setup this task the first time, the task will connect to the specified Excel file (via the Excel connection) and decide what type each column is based on the current spreadsheet.

Thus, if you set up the Excel Source task, just make sure that the columns that should be text only has text in the column. This means that the Excel Source task will always assume that any subsequent spreadsheets will have the same format and will read 12345 as text because the column was text when the task was set up.

Hope it makes sense!