Urgent ~ Can we load OLEDB Source to Excel Destination Without Data Conversion Task

• subratnayak09

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  May 31, 2017 at 8:37 am

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  Hi,

     Can we avoid Data conversion task while loading data from Sql server to Excel destination .
  Error- "cannot convert unicode to non-unicode "

  Thnaks
  Subrat

• DamianC

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  June 7, 2017 at 8:47 am

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  Should depend upon the 'N' prefix on your source data type
  Can these be changed at source?

  - Damian

• tim.ffitch

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  June 9, 2017 at 9:53 am

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  No, if your source fields are either CHAR or VARCHAR then you need to convert. If your source fields are NCHAR or NVARCHAR then you do not.

  You could change the data types in the database but then you must understand how this affects existing queries, primary and foreign keys etc.