Truncation errors importing to SQL Server 2005 from Excel

Question

Long story short, I\'m taking a bunch of excel documents one by one, and importing them using the Import/Export wizard into a database in SQL Server 2005.

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Answer 1

Why do you want to ignore errors? Why not find them and fix them?

At any rate, if you need to do more than the wizard provides, then you should use SSIS (SQL Server Integration Services) directly. That's what the wizard is using, only it can't assume that errors are ok.

It's very simple to write an SSIS package to loop over your Excel files and import them one at a time. The import data flow can be configured either to ignore errors, or to do something else with them, like report them.