External table is not in the expected format

Hi,

I am trying to import an excel spreadsheet to the sql server database, I have 7 spreadsheets. in that 6 of them work fine, but when i try to import the 7th i am getting and error called

External Table is not in the expected format

System.Data.OleDb.OleDbException: External table is not in the expected format

Any help will be appreciated.

Regards,

Karen

Try to save the Excel file in cvs format before the importing. There can be something in the excel document that mess up the import.

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Thanks for ur answer.. but the other 6 files work fine.|||

There might be something in the 7th file that messes up things. Try CSV and see if it helps. If it doesn't then something else is wrong...

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Johram,

I tried converting it to a csv file and getting the same error

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OK, you gotta make sure all values in a column is in the same format. Upon import, the first row is scanned in order to determine the datatype of each column. If he find a number in the first column, then he assumes that this is a numerical column. If there is character data in the column somewhere then there will be an error. Maybe it's not character data that's your problem, but such a thing as an empty value or a decimal value when an integer value is expected.

If you open up the 7th file and scan through the rows, then you might spot the deviation?

See this article:http://blog.lab49.com/?p=196

Good luck!

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Johram,

Thanks a lot for your help.. the reason i was getting that was i had given

flSubAdvisor.PostedFile.SaveAs(location6)

instead of

flGrowth10K.PostedFile.SaveAs(location6)

and

flSubAdvisor.PostedFile.SaveAs(location6) was equal nothing or it was empty..

any way thanks a lot for ur help.

Regards

Karen