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                                    | dpaisYak Posting Veteran
 
 
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                                            |  Posted - 2008-06-03 : 10:26:56 
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                                            | C1______________________________________________C2______C3______C4R1______Barrick Gold Corporation (ABX) 40.400R2______38______________________________________JN 08___C_______26R3______40______________________________________JN 08___C_______68R4______42______________________________________JN 08___C_______24R5______44______________________________________JN 08___C_______57R6______34______________________________________JL 08___C_______10In the above spreadsheet C1/R1 has "barrack ........" and the rest of the rows are numeric ..... R1 does not have any other columns filled in ...When i do a DTS import into an SQL table the cell with "Barrack ...." does not get imported ... any reasons why ? please help.My SQL table has all varchar(75) columns.thanks |  |  
                                    | rmiaoMaster Smack Fu Yak Hacker
 
 
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                                          |  Posted - 2008-06-03 : 15:28:21 
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                                          | What's data type of c1 in excel? It has same data type in all rows? |  
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                                    | dpaisYak Posting Veteran
 
 
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                                          |  Posted - 2008-06-16 : 15:33:00 
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                                          | SORRY, RMAIO DID'NT SEE YOUR REPLY - I FIGURED IT OUT - THERE WAS SOME GARBLED DATA IN MY SPREADSHEET - THANKS FOR THE HELP. |  
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