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 DTS Import truncating Data > 255 characters

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shaneschmidt
Starting Member

17 Posts

Posted - 2004-05-12 : 00:35:40
Help
We have a DTS data pump from a text file to a table
that is truncating data from a source column from 256 chars onwards.
We also use Active X on this column for data cleansing.

The data is 300 chars approx.
The error message when we test this is "
Data for source column is to large for specified buffer size"

Has anyone encountered this problem and any work arounds
would ber appreciated.

tkizer
Almighty SQL Goddess

38200 Posts

Posted - 2004-05-12 : 12:56:29
So did you create the table first or did you let DTS create the table for you? I would suggest creating the table outside of DTS so that it is defined how you want it as DTS will make assumptions.

Tara
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