Data conversion failed

Question

Hi

I am exporting data from Sql server to Csv. My table has special characters which are important to retrieve but SSIS task throw error while exporting data. Characters like ' ồ ' and many more in different columns.

Datatype in SQL Server for this column is nvarchar(50) and in flat file I am using unicode string [DT_WSTR]. If I check Unicode in General tab data gets exported by I get a comma delimited file. When i do not check Unicode checkbox my csv gives perfect data but fails at these special characters.

I am using 1252 ANSI-Latin 1
Error: [Flat File Destination 1 [34]] Error: Data conversion failed. The data conversion for column "Column10" returned status value 4 and status text "Text was truncated or one or more characters had no match in the target code page.".

Thanks !

Answer 1

anonymous user : If I do that I will get error 'column and text can't be same' as you suggested text to be '' .

Answer 2

Export to UTF-8 instead. This avoids a lot of troubles.. and consider using XML.

For your error: It is unavoidable. As you try to export data, which has no representation in your required destination format. Thus any way to make it run will lead to data loss.

Answer 3

Hi @InderjeetKaur-3272 ,

If I check Unicode in General tab data gets exported by I get a comma delimited file.

When we use unicode string [DT_WSTR], we should check Unicode in the flat file connection manager.

Please refer to Unicode And Non-Unicode.

Best Regards,
Mona

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Answer 4

My main motive is to export this data to sharepoint without using third party tool. I was able to achieve this with xls file but xls changes all numeric data to text.

So i considred using csv file which fails for special characters. Is there a way I can show that data in seperate column(not comma delimited) when I check Unicode?

I export data to csv on local machine and wrote some C# code to upload this csv to Sharepoint.

Thanks !

Answer 5

In order to get Unicode characters out of NVARCHAR columns into a CSV, you need to do 1 of 2 things.

1. Check the Unicode box and use DT_WSTR types in your columns in the Flat File Connection columns
2. use the 65001 Code page without checking the Unicode box and use DT_WSTR in the flat file connection columns

This will enable to the characters to be output in csv files. The file output will be a Unicode file and if opened in a text editor that can read Unicode (notepad++) you will see the special characters.