Error in datatype (nvarchar instead of ntext)

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Published on 2012-11-19T10:55:35Z Indexed on 2012/11/19 11:00 UTC
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I am importing data from excel(.xls) to SQL Server 2008 using SSIS. I have included IMEX=1 in the connection string of excel connection manager. But a column consists of a value as below:

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Actually there are about 600 rows in that excel file. But the above mentioned value is present after 450 rows only. So, the datatype of that column is taken as nvarchar(255) as default instead of ntext and so i am getting error.

Anybody please help out... Thanks in advance...

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