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CLCastroEn's avatar
CLCastroEn
Helper IV
5 years ago

Error en cargar base OLE DB or ODBC eerror

Hello everyone!

I have a base that has approximately 100 excel files combined from a folder. The problem that when updating sends me this error : "OLE DB or ODBC error [DataFormat.Error] Cannot be converted to numeric...

Please help me because there are more than 20 columns and what I did to each column was replace errors with a 0 and I thought it had been fixed but still sends me that error.

Is there any way to know which column brings such an error? (as I said I have many columns and there are too many files, so identifying which one has the error is complicated)

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  • v-lionel-msft's avatar
    v-lionel-msft
    Community Support

    Hi CLCastroEn ,

     

    You can enable the ‘Column quality’ option to see if the column contains errors.

     

    Best regards,
    Lionel Chen

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  • mahoneypat's avatar
    mahoneypat
    Microsoft Employee

    You probably have columns that show just numbers in the preview, but actually contain text values.  When you do a full load it tries to convert those text values to number.  You can do a Keep Errors step to troubleshoot, or make those columns text instead of number, load it all, and then see the text values in Data View.

    Regards,

    Pat

  • v-lionel-msft's avatar
    v-lionel-msft
    Community Support

    Hi CLCastroEn ,

     

    Try to select all columns and use "Keep errors" feature to check the errors.

     

    Best regards,
    Lionel Chen

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  • v-lionel-msft's avatar
    v-lionel-msft
    Community Support

    Hi CLCastroEn ,

     

    Has your problem been solved?

     

    Best regards,
    Lionel Chen

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