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Excel scientific notation

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dpdg

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I have to update my database with data from excel spreadsheets. When Excel has numbers that it considers too long it changes the format to something like 6.10013e+009

Excel automatically formats long numbers into scientific format -- without you even telling it to. Is there any way to make it stop doing that? I have absolutely no use for that.

It stores the number correctly, but my SQL Server database grabs the 6.10013e+009 instead of the actual number. This format makes no sense to my clients. How do I read the actual number into SQL Server instead of the scientific notation?
 
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