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 Import from Text File to SQL db and getting error

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devogrrrrl
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Posted - 2011-07-12 : 09:09:24
I have been provided with a | (pipe) delimited .txt and need to import into SQL. One of the columns in the file holds a date in the format of '1/15/2011' and the column is a column type 'string [DT_STR]'. I am having issues importing it as a type 'Date'. Getting an error as follows:

Error 0xc02020c5: Data Flow Task 1: Data conversion failed while converting column "tkc_partner_date" (54) to column "tkc_partner_date" (153). The conversion returned status value 2 and status text "The value could not be converted because of a potential loss of data.".
(SQL Server Import and Export Wizard)

Any advice?

Thanks!

lightsql
Starting Member

17 Posts

Posted - 2011-07-20 : 04:15:04
Change the datatype of your date column from DT_STR to DT_DATE. Go to Flat File Connection Manager Editor > Advanced > and directly change the data type of the column to DT_DATE, you should have no need to convert the column then... let me know if it works for you
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