(urgent)strange behaviour in excel file when previewed in SqlServer (importData)

Hi,

I am trying to import a excel file in to my database... The improt works fine.. But some of the data is missing though it is present in the excel spread sheet.

I have some data for cusip which are 9 characters and they be a combination of numbers wiht a letter.. for eg.. 123456789 or 12345R789. And in the my spread sheet there are around 73 rows.. until the 62 row it has numbers like 123456789 and from the 62 to 73 it has 12345R789 this is an just example but the data is in that format.

I went to sqlServer 2005 and imported the data using Tasks -ImportData and selected my excel spreadsheet, the user name and password for the database and i selected the sheet i want to import.. and when i preview the data ... Until the 62 row i can see the numbers and after that i cannot see any data in that column... and when i import the data from 62 row the value is NULL...

So can some please tell me what going on why isnt that data been recognised by the importer in sql server.

Any help will be appreciated.

Regards

Karen

A short answer(work around): import throgh an Access table will address this issue.

Or change the numbers in this column to text by adding an ' in front of these numbers before your import.

I hope someone can provide more elegant solution(s) to this issue.