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Asked: 2026-06-18T08:20:19+00:00

Excel: Input file contains the data as shown below. Column —— 123456 234567 ADCDEF

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Excel:

Input file contains the data as shown below.

Column
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123456
234567
ADCDEF

CSV/Text:

Output file contains the data as shown below

Column
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123456
234567
NULL

Why does SSIS package write NULL value instead of ABCDEF in the last row when transferring data from Excel to CSV?

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  1. Editorial Team

    The issue is that Excel file contains mixed data that is both numerical values and strings, which is causing Excel to read the first few rows and infer the data type of the column as numerical, which is not true in this case. When you create a Excel Data Source to read this Excel file, you will notice that the column is defined as number and treats it that way. Hence the string never makes it to the output file.

    You need to modify the ConnectionString property of the Excel connection manager to include IMEX=1 to indicate that the data source might contain values of different data types.

    IMEX stands for intermixed Read more about it here: Connection strings for Excel

    Here is an example to illustrate the difference.

    I created two identical Excel files as per the data provided in the question.

    Excel_1

    Excel_2

    Created an SSIS package with following connection managers.

    Excel_1 had the following connection string

    Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=C:\temp\ExcelFile_1.xls;Extended Properties="Excel 8.0;HDR=YES";

    Excel_2 had the following connection string. The difference being the additional IMEX=1;. You need to manually add this to the ConnectionString property of the Excel Connection Manager. To view the properties, click on the Excel Connection Manager and press F4.

    Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=C:\temp\ExcelFile_2.xls;Extended Properties="EXCEL 8.0;IMEX=1;HDR=YES";

    Connections

    Designed the data flow as shown below to transfer Excel_1.xls to FlatFile_1.csv and Excel_2.xls to FlatFile_2.csv

    Package

    You can see in the output that the first flat file does not have any value for third row but the second file does. The reason is the first Excel connection manager inferred that the column type is numerical, which is not true. However, the second file treated the

    FlatFile_1

    FlatFile_2

    You can right-click on the Excel data source and click Show Advanced Editor...

    Excel data source

    On the Advanced Editor, click Input and Output Properties, expand Excel Source Output and then expand External Columns. Click Column.

    You will notice that the data type of the column on first Excel data source is set to double-precision float [DT_R8] on the first Excel connection manager Excel_1

    Excel_1 Advanced

    You will notice that the data type of the column on second Excel data source is set to Unicode string [DT_WSTR] on the first Excel connection manager Excel_2

    Excel_2 Advanced

    Hope that helps.

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