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 Importing a tab delimited file

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john.burns
Posting Yak Master

100 Posts

Posted - 2007-07-05 : 12:58:15
hi all,

While importing a tab delimited file..
it seems ssis interprets the incoming col as 50 chars in length even
though it is far smaller.
any ideas how this could be??

any help would be appreciated.

igorblackbelt
Constraint Violating Yak Guru

407 Posts

Posted - 2007-07-05 : 14:45:59
Do you have the properties of the "Flat File Source" correctly?

Format must be set to "Delimited"
Header Row delimiter must be set to {t}


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tmitch
Yak Posting Veteran

60 Posts

Posted - 2007-07-16 : 23:14:12
You might also check your data file to verify that there are no extraneous whitespace characters. I've run into data files from proprietary systems that drop spaces and other whitespace characters into data fields.
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