Here is the question received from user – the email was long and had multiple request from reader to resolve this error.
Scenario:
The user was trying to import data from Excel to tables in SQL Server Database. Every time he attempted to import the data he faced following error. He tried using SSIS package as well using the Import Export Wizard (which creates an SSIS package under the hood as well) but he he kept on facing following error. He could not figure out the reason behind the error. I have modified the error to make it readable.
Error:
– Executing (Error)
Messages
Error 0xc02020c5: Data Flow Task 1: Data conversion failed while converting column “Col1” (18) to column “Col1” (51). The conversion returned status value 2 and status text “The value could not be converted because of a potential loss of data.”.
(SQL Server Import and Export Wizard)
Error 0xc0209029: Data Flow Task 1: SSIS Error Code DTS_E_INDUCEDTRANSFORMFAILUREONERROR. [Error Detail]. An error occurred on the specified object of the specified component. There may be error messages posted before this with more information about the failure.
(SQL Server Import and Export Wizard)
Error 0xc0047022: Data Flow Task 1: SSIS Error Code DTS_E_PROCESSINPUTFAILED. The ProcessInput method on component “Data Conversion 0 – 0” (39) failed with error code 0xC0209029 while processing input “Data Conversion Input” (40). The identified component returned an error from the ProcessInput method. The error is specific to the component, but the error is fatal and will cause the Data Flow task to stop running. There may be error messages posted before this with more information about the failure.
(SQL Server Import and Export Wizard)
Solution:
Well, there can be many reasons for this error to show up but the major reason is that data type mismatch. I have observed that following two are the major reason for the error.
1) Null’s are not properly handled either in the destination database or during SSIS package creation. It is quite possible that the source contains a null database but the destination is not accepting the NULL data leading to build generate above error.
2) This is the most common issue I have seen in the industry where data types between source and destination does not match. For example, source column has varchar data and destination column have an int data type. This can easily generate above error. There are certain kind of datatypes which will automatically convert to another data type and will not generate the error but there are for incompatible datatypes which will generate above error.
The best practices is to make sure that you match your data types and their properties of the source and destination. If the datatypes of the source and destination are same, there is very less chance of occurrence of the above error.
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