Data Mining Add-Ins Doesn't Work With Non-English Regional Settings
Dec 23, 2006
I tried Data Mining Add-Ins for Office 2007 - CTP December 2006.
Test settings: Windows XP SP2 english with Italian regional settings, Office 2007 english (RTM), SQL Server 2005 Developer (with SP2 CTP Dec06) and Data Mining Add-ins for Office 2007 (CTP Dec06).
If I keep regional settings in Italian, I get error like this:
Old format or invalid type library. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80028018 (TYPE_E_INVDATAREAD))
If I change regional settings to English, the Add-in works.
I found this description as the possible cause of the problem: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms178780(vs.80).aspx - if this is the issue, it would be necessary to change the ExcelLocale1033Attribute on the component.
Is there another workaround other than to install the Office 2007 MUI?
Marco Russo
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I am trying to import 3 worksheets from an excel file. The import must be performed on several servers.
I created a config file for this which contains the path to the excel file and the connectionstring, and the LocaleID's of the different tasks.
I have the following tasks :
1. preparation SQL task ( this calls a few sql statements which cleanup certain import tables ) 2. data flow task ( this the actual import from the excel file to several tables, this what goes wrong ) 3. execute SQL task ( this calls a stored proc which does some filtering the imported data into other tables ).
point 2 is giving problems.
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The problem is a decimal field in the database, and the difference in decimal separator. When i set my regional settings to English the values in the excel are notated like 74.54 which works. And when i have the dutch regional settings the same value in excel is displayed like 74,54. I haven't got a clue how to solve this.
Is there a way to tell the SSIS to not use the regional settings, but use the settings specified in the config file ? And if this is possible how can i check if the correct settings are used ?
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An audit has shown up 1 production server using English_US 'mmddyyyy' system date formats, all others being English_Australian 'ddmmyyyy'.
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Any good advcies on this will be a lot appreciated.
I am looking forward to hearing from you shortly for this confusion and thanks a lot in advance.
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Either way, I'm unable to complete the data mining wizardÂ
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