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

There is an alternative location of the registry component that needs to be changed to resolve this problem.

If you cannot find it at

Start–>RUN–>RegEdit–>HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Jet\4.0\Engines\Excel

then look in

Start–>RUN–>RegEdit–>HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE -> SOFTWARE -> Wow6432Node -> Microsoft -> Jet -> 4.0 ->Engines -> Excel