Text NN

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I've playing with all the tutorials I could find and read as much as possible. I can get all the tutorials to work great. My problem is I can't get my own data to function.

Every time I run my data through SQL 2005 in Business Intelligence Studio removes my fields that are text. I've tried every algorithm it has to offer although I'm more interested in decision tree and neural network. What do I have to do to get it to understand and use text values?

An example
Orange|1|3|1|5|T7

I'm trying to get it to read the values 1|3|1|5|T7 from my db and be able to predict that those values or similar values is orange.
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