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Text was truncated error in SSIS package

Asked by stelth240 in SSIS, SQL Server 2005, MS SQL Server

Tags: SSIS text truncation collation code page

I can't seem to figure out the answer to this problem.  I have a column in a flat file that keeps giving me the truncation error:

Data conversion failed. The data conversion for column "SORTL" returned status value 4 and status text "Text was truncated or one or more characters had no match in the target code page.".

The column size should be 10 characters in length.  It has an en-dash in the string that's causing the error, but I verified that the en-dash is part of the 1252 code page, which is what I'm using in my Flat File Connection Manager.  I verified that the Flat File Connection Manager shows string, 10 chars on both the External and Output Columns.  The destination table is varchar(10).  The flat file is delimited by pipes and this is one of the examples that's failing (with pipes):

|OLD  MICH|

Again, the dash is not a regular dash, it's an en-dash.  The ascii code for the regular dash is 45, and the en-dash is 150.

I've tried upping the size of the column to 20, 30, 40.  I've tried changing it to unicode for the same sizes, and still no change.  It's failing on the flat file source so it's there that I think something's wrong.

Is there anything different with the en-dash or the fact that the data has an en-dash while being a full 10 characters long?  I'm stumped.  This is also happening on another flat file for a different package.  The column size is 40 characters, but there's no en-dash in that one, and the one record that's failing is taking up the whole 40 characters.

Thanks in advance for any help.  If I can provide any more information, let me know.
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