Article ID: 207446
Article Last Modified on 10/16/2002
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 Standard Edition
This article was previously published under Q207446
BUG #: 44641 (SQLBUG_70)
SYMPTOMS
The Data Transformation Services (DTS) Wizard finishes with an error when importing data from a Microsoft Excel 97 spreadsheet with 256 or more columns. The error is "Too many fields defined."
WORKAROUND
To work around this problem, break the package into two different tasks, each of which import fewer than 256 columns from the Excel spreadsheet datasource.
STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in SQL Server 7.0.
Additional query words: data source convert transfer
Keywords: kbbug kbinterop kbpending KB207446
