Data export from SQL Server to csv error “data conversion returned status value 4”

Question

I am trying to export data from sql to a csv file using ssis. In the data flow task my source is OLE DB and then a data conversion for the column that its failing on set to data length 500 and in then the flat file destination . In the flat file connection settings I made sure the data length is set at 500 .

Still getting the error:

[Flat File Destination [12]] Error: Data conversion failed. The data conversion for column "description" returned status value 4 and status text "Text was truncated or one or more characters had no match in the target code page.".

NOTE: SSIS set the data length at 450 by recognition and that was the initial fail before I made the change of data length to 500./

Answer 1

It sounds like you have some special characters in your data. Try a different code page in your flat file connection manager. You can try changing it to 65001 UTF-8

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Answer 2

In my case, there was problem with some special character in data. It worked fine after checking "Unicode" checkbox in Flat file connection manager.