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

Try this - Go to Data Flow Task > Right click on Excel Data Source > Click on Show Advance Editor > Select Input and Output Properties > Expand Excel Source Output > Expand External Columns and Output Columns and check the erroneous columns and click on those column headers and update Data Type accordingly (Mostly that should be Unicode text stream [DT_NTEXT], otherwise change to that and give it a try). Hope this help.