The value violated the integrity constraints for the column

Question

I am trying to import the data from Excel file into SQL Server database. I am unable to do so because I am getting following errors in the log file. Please help. The log err

Answer 1

I've found that this can happen due to a number of various reasons.

In my case when I scroll to the end of the SQL import "Report", under the "Post-execute (Success)" heading it will tell me how many rows were copied and it's usually the next row in sheet which has the issue. Also you can tell which column by the import messages (in your case it was "Copy of F2") so you can generally find out which was the offending cell in Excel.

I've seen this happen for very silly reasons such as the date format in Excel being different than previous rows. For example cell A2 being "05/02/2017" while A3 being "5/2/2017" or even "05-02-2017". It seems the import wants things to be perfectly consistent.

It even happens if the Excel formats are different so if B2 is "512" but an Excel "Number" format and B3 is "512" but an Excel "Text" format then the Cell will cause an error.

I've also had situations where I literally had to delete all the "empty" rows below my data rows in the Excel sheet. Sometimes they appear empty but Excel considers them having "blank" data or something like that so the import tries to import them as well. This usually happens if you've had previous data in your Excel sheet which you've cleared but haven't properly deleted the rows.

And then there's the obvious reasons of trying to import text value into an integer column or insert a NULL into a NOT NULL column as mentioned by the others.