DTS import does not import all rows / records

[Elaksomfan]

Hi,

I am having trouble importing data from an excel spreadsheet into MS
SQL Server 2000 using DTS Wizard. The DTS import process is
successfull, no errors, but only 50 rows of approx. 1500 rows of data
are imported. I tried to remove 20 rows in the excel spreadsheet in
the interval row 0-50. When i later ran the import, only 30 rows were
imported. I deleted almost every row in the interval 0-50, with the
result of the import having 0 rows imported (but job ran
successfully). I decided to delete rows 0-100 in the spreadsheet in
order to see if the resolved the problem, but it didn't. As I
suspected something in the excel file to be the cause, I exported the
excel spreadsheeet to a tab delimited textfile, with only one row. A
DTS import resulted in importing approx 100 rows, double the amount of
the textfile, but the other 1400 rows were not imported. The data in
the column is containing numeric values only.

Please help me! What could possibly be the cause of DTS skipping rows
like that. DTS doesn't feel reliable at all :/

Regards,
Björn

[Thomas R. Hummel]

You may want to check your spreadsheet to see if it has a named range
and if that is what you are using in DTS. If the named range only
includes rows 1-50 then DTS will only import those rows.

I'm not sure what you were doing with the text file, since you said
that you exported one row and it imported 100.

HTH,
-Tom.

[Joško Šugar]

Maybe it would be a better idea to avoid the DTS Wizard. Make a local
package on your server and you will have much more control over it.
And if an error occures, DTS will tell you what kind of error that is.
Elaksomfan wrote:

Hi,

I am having trouble importing data from an excel spreadsheet into MS
SQL Server 2000 using DTS Wizard. The DTS import process is
successfull, no errors, but only 50 rows of approx. 1500 rows of data
are imported. I tried to remove 20 rows in the excel spreadsheet in
the interval row 0-50. When i later ran the import, only 30 rows were
imported. I deleted almost every row in the interval 0-50, with the
result of the import having 0 rows imported (but job ran
successfully). I decided to delete rows 0-100 in the spreadsheet in
order to see if the resolved the problem, but it didn't. As I
suspected something in the excel file to be the cause, I exported the
excel spreadsheeet to a tab delimited textfile, with only one row. A
DTS import resulted in importing approx 100 rows, double the amount of
the textfile, but the other 1400 rows were not imported. The data in
the column is containing numeric values only.

Please help me! What could possibly be the cause of DTS skipping rows
like that. DTS doesn't feel reliable at all :/

Regards,
Björn

[Taw]

First save the excel sheet in csv format.
Then use DTS to import form the csv file.

Tawfiq.

Elaksomfan wrote:

Hi,

I am having trouble importing data from an excel spreadsheet into MS
SQL Server 2000 using DTS Wizard. The DTS import process is
successfull, no errors, but only 50 rows of approx. 1500 rows of data
are imported. I tried to remove 20 rows in the excel spreadsheet in
the interval row 0-50. When i later ran the import, only 30 rows were
imported. I deleted almost every row in the interval 0-50, with the
result of the import having 0 rows imported (but job ran
successfully). I decided to delete rows 0-100 in the spreadsheet in
order to see if the resolved the problem, but it didn't. As I
suspected something in the excel file to be the cause, I exported the
excel spreadsheeet to a tab delimited textfile, with only one row. A
DTS import resulted in importing approx 100 rows, double the amount of the textfile, but the other 1400 rows were not imported. The data in
the column is containing numeric values only.

Please help me! What could possibly be the cause of DTS skipping rows
like that. DTS doesn't feel reliable at all :/

Regards,
Björn