Text was truncated or one or more characters had no match in the target code page When importing from Excel file

Question

I have an excel file with four text columns: one of them is called ShortDescription which has the longest value. I created a table in SQL Server 2008 database, with four col

Answer 1

I got this error when I was trying to import a large file that had some chinese characters in it, and also some invalid (large) strings.

The text file was saved in UTF8 format.

My settings:

On the General Option (didn't change anything):

- Locale: English (United States) 
- Unicode: Unchecked
- Code Page: 65001 (UTF-8)

There is an Advanced Option on the left

- DataType (for column): Unicode String [DT_WSTR] (changed)
- OutputColumnWidth: 4000 (that's the maximum) (changed)

On the Review Data Type Mapping

- On Error: Ignore
- On Truncation: Ignore

My target column had width = 50.

I got no errors with these settings.