>>I'm importing an excel sheet through SSIS.
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>>One of the columns has values like this
>>
>>Case_ID
>>
>>122361
>>122382
>>122369
>>122368
>>122390
>>ME_318
>>
>>when I set up the SSIS source it selects double-precision float [DT_R8] as the data type for the Case ID column and the value with ME_ is ignored.
>>
>>How doe SSIS select the data type for excel columns and how can I override it.
>>
>>Thanks
>
>Check http://blogs.lessthandot.com/index.php/datamgmt/dbprogramming/mssqlserver/what-s-the-deal-with/

Thanks Naomi

I'd found a similar link juts befer :-). I don't usually import from Excel. I had no idea it was going to be so bad.