Excel Data Truncated to 255 Characters
I'm trying to import the data from an Excel spreadsheet into a ADO.NET
DataTable using the Jet engine and I'm running into a problem where it is truncating the text data to 255 characters. I know that it tries to read x number of lines from the file (I think 8 by default) and make a determination based on that about how big to make the DataTable column. And I know that if I put one of the bigger values up at the front of the spreadsheet that it will work properly but I don't want to have to rely on doing that. Apparently there is a registry setting (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE \Microsoft\Jet\4.0\Engines\Excel\TypeGuesRows) you can set to make Jet read in more lines before determining the max data length. Supposedly setting it to 0 makes it read in all the rows. I've tried tweaking it with no results. I really don't want to have to rely on modifying the registry anyway. I've also tried using the MAXROWSTOSCAN=0 in the Jet connection string to no avail. The only thing that appears to work is to move the data around. Isn't there a better way to do this? Isn't there a way to get Jet to read in all the rows before making the size determination? I believe the files are in Excel 2003 format. Here is the connection string I am using. Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=C:/file.xls;Extended Properties="Excel 8.0;IMEX=1;HDR=YES" I also tried the Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0 provider and got the same results. |
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