Exel to SQL DFTask loads some Null records

Question

I have an SSIS package to import Excel data into SQL. When I look at Excel I dont see ANY Null rows. However when I run the SSIS package and check SQL, It loads some NULL RECORDS IN SQL. WHy is that It loads Null records in SQL, When i cannot see the Null
recs In Excel?

Answer 1

That's because the person who created the Excel file and added the data to it pressed the "Enter" key on some of the empty cells under that specific column. In excel, such a row might look like any other empty, non-data row but for SSIS, its an
actual data row except that it doesn't have any value. SSIS treats a missing data value as a DBNULL and that's what you saw.
There are multiple ways of fixing this. 
1. Educate the creator of the excel to be more careful at the time of data entry.
2. Make that target column in the DB table as NOT NULL. 
3. Handle such "empty" data values as exception inside your SSIS (using a data flow task and ignoring such rows).
4. Switch to using CSV file format instead of excel format.
5. All of the above :)
Hope this helps.
Cheers!
Muqadder.