problem running the same DTS package from local workstation and from server

  • Hi everybody!

    may be you can help me: I've done a dts package that load an excel file into a table on my workstation (for a local server). the problem is that i've moved this package on server, changed all the linked connection but, when i check it in the transform data task to see the preview of the source file i don't see anything of a column of datetime data. the excel file is complex and there about ten lines of  header so the datetime column begin after a few lines.

    thank you in advance and sorry for my english..

  • Are there not headers in your test files on your workstation?

    Headers cause problems in DTS. If there's a way to remove them, I'd do that.

    Or load the entire file into a staging table with one wide column. Then delete those rows and transform them with T-SQL into another table.

  • there are header also on my test file on workstation.... i've  solved changing the modifying the extend properties of excel connection and setting IMEX=1

    the problem is that on my pc the field is loaded as a datetime, on server i've to do an extra operation, but now (and i don't know for how long.....) it works

    ciao!

    Luciano

    mater semper certa est, pater numquam!

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