I have a confusion with Bulk Insert task for several days.
Here is what Books Online say, which i totally understand---
"The source file that the Bulk Insert task loads can be on the same server as the SQL Server database into which data is inserted, or on a remote server. If the file is on a remote server, you must specify the file name using the Universal Naming Convention (UNC) name in the path."
Now, If my Bulk Insert task (within a package) is on one server, say ETL ( so when i run the package, it will run from ETL server); but, My destination table where data will be inserted, is in another server, say PROD. So, My OLEDB connection will be pointing to a remote server .Now, If my text file is on ETL server, do i have to give UNC path?..Or If i have text file on the same server as my destination ( here PROD) do i Have to Give UNC naming?. I found in several places that Bulk insert Task runs on that server where its connections points to.
My scnerio: I have multiple SSIS packages. Now These packages will be on ETL server, but all the databases will be hosted on PROD server. Now for my Bulk Insert , I asked them to keep all flat file on ETL server(where packages will be ). Looks like this will give me a problem later, since all my Destination will be on PROD server, during bulk insert , sql server will go and look for those files on PROD server rather than ETL server? Or i AM confused here?......
Say package.dtsx is On SER1which useses bulk insert tasks..
My OLEDB connection is SERV2 database B and Table T
Now my flat file connection is D:myfilefile.txt
Now when i run this task where does these txt file will be pulled from. Does it pulls from local server (SER1) or does it goes to SERV2 looking for txt file.
I tried several combinations of moving files to different servers, yet i have no conclusions.
I would like to get the rowcount from a bulk insert task to validate that all the data is being inserted correctly. So far the only way that I can see this being done is through a trigger on the target tables. I would like to have this information inside the DTS package. Can anyone help me?
I have an SSIS Package which is designed to import log files. Basically, it loops through a directory, parses text from the log files, and dumps it to the database. The issue I'm having is not with the package reading the files, but when it attempts to write the information to the db. What I'm seeing is that it will hit a file, read 3000 some lines, convert them (using the Data Conversion component), and then "hang" when it tries to write it to the db.
I've run the SQL Server Profiler, and had originally thought that the issue had to do with the collation. I was seeing every char column with the word "collate" next to it. On the other hand, while looking at the Windows performance monitor, I see that the disk queue is maxed at 100% for about a minute after importing just one log file.
I'm not sure if this is due to the size of the db, and having to update a clustered index, or not.
The machine where this is all taking place has 2 arrays- both RAID 10. Each array is 600 GB, and consists of 8 disks. The SSIS package is being executed locally using BIDS.
I have two SSIS packages that import from the same flat file into the same SQL 2005 table. I have one flat file connection (to a comma delimited file) and one OLE DB connection (to a SQL 2005 Database). Both packages use these same two Connection Managers. The SQL table allows NULL values for all fields. The flat file has "empty values" (i.e., ,"", ) for certain columns.
The first package uses the Data Flow Task with the "Keep nulls" property of the OLE DB Destination Editor unchecked. The columns in the source and destination are identically named thus the mapping is automatically assigned and is mapped based on ordinal position (which is equivalent to the mapping using Bulk Insert). When this task is executed no null values are inserted into the SQL table for the "empty values" from the flat file. Empty string values are inserted instead of NULL.
The second package uses the Bulk Insert Task with the "KeepNulls" property for the task (shown in the Properties pane when the task in selected in the Control Flow window) set to "False". When the task is executed NULL values are inserted into the SQL table for the "empty values" from the flat file.
So using the Data Flow Task " " (i.e., blank) is inserted. Using the Bulk Insert Task NULL is inserted (i.e., nothing is inserted, the field is skipped, the value for the record is omitted).
I want to have the exact same behavior on my data in the Bulk Insert Task as I do with the Data Flow Task.
Using the Bulk Insert Task, what must I do to have the Empty String values inserted into the SQL table where there is an "empty value" in the flat file? Why & how does this occur automatically in the Data Flow Task?
From a SQL Profile Trace comparison of the two methods I do not see where the syntax of the insert command nor the statements for the preceeding captured steps has dictated this change in the behavior of the inserted "" value for the recordset. Please help me understand what is going on here and how to accomplish this using the Bulk Insert Task.
I'm just learning SSIS and I've hit my first bump. I am doing a bulk import from a tab delimited text file to an empty sql table that has a Idendity column defined. How do I tell the bulk insert task to skip that column when inserting from the text file. If I remove the identity column it imports the data fine, but I want to create the indentity column in the table too.
I receive the following error message when I try to use the Bulk Insert Task to load BCP data into a table:
Error: 0xC002F304 at Bulk Insert Task, Bulk Insert Task: An error occurred with the following error message: "Cannot fetch a row from OLE DB provider "BULK" for linked server "(null)".The OLE DB provider "BULK" for linked server "(null)" reported an error. The provider did not give any information about the error.The bulk load failed. The column is too long in the data file for row 1, column 4. Verify that the field terminator and row terminator are specified correctly.Bulk load data conversion error (overflow) for row 1, column 1 (rowno).".
Task failed: Bulk Insert Task
In SSMS I am able to issue the following command and the data loads into a TableName table with no error messages: BULK INSERT TableName FROM 'C:DataDbTableName.bcp' WITH (DATAFILETYPE='widenative');
What configuration is required for the Bulk Insert Task in SSIS to make the data load? BTW - the TableName.bcp file is bulk copy file as bcp widenative data type. The properties of the Bulk Insert Task are the following: DataFileType: DTSBulkInsert_DataFileType_WideNative RowTerminator: {CR}{LF}
Any help getting the bcp file to load would be appreciated. Let me know if you require any other information, thanks for all your help. Paul
I am using the Bulk Insert task object in DTS and I am using a format file as well to import data from a text file. I was able to insert data into my SQL table fine when I did not have a identity column defined in my table; however, I added a identity field and now the bulk insert will not work. Anyone had a similiar problem?
The error msg box that pops up says:
The statement has been terminated. string or binary data would be truncated.
I want to check sorted data option for bulk insert task on DTS Package. I want to sort data on 1st column. How can I put order by clause on sorted data option? I put ORDER (SSNo) but I am getting error. Thanks ss
I am doing heavy Bulk insert task to one Database.When i checked the Activity Monitor I saw it was suspended and Wait type:PAGEIOLATCH_EX So it stopped itself.Do any experts have good idea about what is going on?
For ex: In SQL Server 2005 when we create table with 3 columns which has allow nulls option is disabled. Then we try to insert record with blank to any one of the column SQL server throws error, coz column name is NOT Null without inserting data it won't saves the record. When we try to import a csv data file has 3 columns & has null data. If we use BULK INSERT TASK option, it easily inserts the data, without throwing error.
My question is how can we restrict null data without inserting it into the table using BULK INSERT TASK using SQL Server 2005.
I am using the Bulk Insert Task to bulk copy data from a flat file to a SQL Server 2005 table. The flat file contains pipe ( | ) delimited columns and several thousand records which are {CR}{LF} delimited. The file also contains a header record and trailer record, which contain several words but also contains a ( | ) symbol among those words.
E.g.:
HEDR | yadi yadi yada500 | Data Data | More Data | 600460 | Datum | More More | 705550 | Data | Data | 603FOOTR | yadi yadi yada
I need to ignore the header and trailer records and just pickup the proper records. But even though I manually set the First Row property to 2 and the Last Row property to 4, It does not pickup the first true record i.e. the record which begins with 500, and if I set the First Row to 1, it throws me an error citing 'truncation error' or similar. I think it is taking the first record (i.e. header row along with the first row as one, and since there are now more pipes ( | ) the error is thrown)
I've tried setting different values for these properties but to no avail... Any help will be deeply appreciated...
Really Don't understand this and have run out of hair to pull out.
DTS package whihc has a Bulk Insert Task. The task is populated with its source filename dynamically. It has a format file which is stored locally to the box its running on.
The output file is from a unix box pipe delimited. Great dandy. All works a treat as long as I treat everything as either an INT or CHAR. But I have a couple of columns that are DATES in the format 13/02/2004.
I want these inserted into smalldatetime columns. Will settle for datetime columns though.
I get an error on every row Bulk Insert data conversion error (type mismatch) for Row X Column 11 (PostingDate) which happens to be the first date column.
Tried loading it as CHAR, SQLDATETIME and SQLDATETIM4 in the format file all to no avail. TRied it with columns in the dest table as DATETIME and SMALLDATETIME
I use a "Bulk Insert Task" inside of a "ForEach Container" and set the ConnectionString-Property of the "FlatFile-ConnectionManager" with an expression, pulling from a variable. The packages works fine, but I get an Error-Message in the Output-Window:
Fehler: 0xC001401E bei Package, Verbindungs-Manager 'FlatFile': Der in der Verbindung angegebene Dateiname 'c:old.txt' war ungĂĽltig.
Translation:
Error: 0xC001401E at Package, Connection-Manager 'FlatFile': Cannot open the file 'c:old.txt'. (Sorry, in this office is the no english version available).
'C:old.txt' is the initial value of the variable. The new value is 'C:ew.txt' and I can see the new value in the Debugger or in a Scripttask.
Before the execution of the "Bulk Insert Task" starts, SSIS makes a validation. I have tried to stop the validation on setting the property "DelayValidation" = True (Package,ForEach-Container,BulkInsert-Task,FlatFile-ConnectionManager), but it is not possible to stop the validation and the error-message. After printing the error-message, the variable is evaluated and the package works fine. After the first loop, there is no more error-message.
The error-message is a problem, because the operators look at the error-output.
As a workaround I can set the property in a Scriptatsk. Is there another solution????
with my ssis-package i have to read several flatfiles. this files are stored in different folders on a unix machine. in my loop-task i have first a script, that checks whether the file exists. it does, so i set the path to a variable. in the connection-manager for the flat-file i have set source for the file to that variable. the bulk-insert-task starts, read the file and everithing is cool. but, sometimes, the package fails with this message:
[Bulk Insert Task] Error: An error occurred with the following error message: "Cannot bulk load because the file "\Owpu0kas 0 0 5 eceivedw000005.090" could not be opened. Operating system error code 53(error not found)."
i stop the degugging-mode, restart debuging and what happens? it runs ... maybe for the next one, two or three files and the error comes again, but never on the same file. i'm going crazy, what can i do?
The way I understand a Data Flow Task is that it inserts the rows from the source to destination one by one. Is there a way to make it act like a bulk insert task? We have been experiencing performance issues when inserting a lot of rows from one table to another. If there's no way to actually do it, can a bulk insert task functionality be scripted? Coz what I need is a table to table insert, and the bulk insert task only accepts data files as sources.
I am developing a SSIS package for inserting data in an Oracle database table. but looks like the 'bulk insert task' in SSIS does not support oracle database. I cannot set the destination connection property to use the oracle database connection.
I have created one OLEDB connection pointing to my oracle database. (using 'Oracle Provider for OLEDB' and I tried 'Microsoft OLEDB provider for Oracle' also). this connection is working fine.
When I go to the connection property in the 'Bulk Insert Task's edit dialogue box, in the DropDown list, I don€™t see my Oracle connection listed there. (but a SQL server database connection existing in the same package could be seen).
Hi Guys The problem is... When i try to bulk insert a single file its working fine. When i want to loop a set of files in a folder and use Foreach Loop and BulkInsert Task...its failing..
In the flat file connection When i specify usage type as existing file...its loading the same file "n" number of times where n is the number of files in the folder.
When i select usage type as existing folder i get error " Cannot bulk load because the file "....folder" could not be opened. Can someone help me out with this? I have sql 2005 as as separate instance...beside my 2000 which is default
I have an SSIS package doing a bulk insert from a file. Then later on I'm trying to delete that file (in a file delete task), but I'm getting an error:[File System Task] Error: An error occurred with the following error message: "The process cannot access the file 'xyz' because it is being used by another process.".I'm wondering if there isn't some way to 'tweak' the bulk insert syntax so that it doesn't lock the file?
Using Bulk Insert Task extensively in our solution. Everything was working great till we deployed it in stage columns. The database server is different from application servers. We have ASP.NET web services driving SSIS packages on application server. After struggling thru several security issues to get this working (ended up creating an application pool with a domain account) we are now stuck with this problem. On a different note still don't understand what specific security permission is available to domain account that makes it work.
Read in some blog that SQL Server 2005 SP2 Beta had this (Bulk Insert) fixed but not in final production version. Is there a specific reason why this is so?
SSIS and the API is quite easy to work with but associated security and deployment issues are not always clear. A lot of answers seem to be coming from end users - thanks a lot to all for sharing your experiences - sadly not presented clearly in SSIS documentation.
I'm importing a large csv file two different ways - one with Bulk Import Task and the other way with the Data Flow Task (flat file source -> OLE DB destination).
With the Bulk Import Task I'm putting all the csv rows in one column. With the Data Flow Task I'm mapping each csv value to it's own column in the SQL table.
I used two different flat file sources and got the following:
I am using 'OLE DB Destination' task in a data flow. When I select 'Table or view - fast load', check 'Table lock' and 'Check constraints' and run the flow, I get only one row inserted. The data flow edge shows hundreds of thousands of rows flowing to destination and the task completes (turns green).
The problem goes away if I uncheck bulk load (e.g., select 'Table or view').
Is fast load using bulk insert or some internal code?
I am using SSIS (2005) to insert records into a sql2k database and getting error:
The selected connection manager uses an earlier version of a SQL Server provider. Bulk insert operations require a connection that uses a SQL Server 2005 Provider.
Using the Bulk Insert Control Flow object is not an option because it requires the file be on the 2000 server and I am not able to create temporary tables on the 2005 server (some nutty security lockdown).
im trying to do a bulk insert & am getting the following error .
An error occurred with the following error message: "Cannot fetch a row from OLE DB provider "BULK" for linked server "(null)".The OLE DB provider "BULK" for linked server "(null)" reported an error. The provider did not give any information about the error.Bulk load: An unexpected end of file was encountered in the data file.Bulk load data conversion error (type mismatch or invalid character for the specified codepage) for row 1, column 3 (calling_natr_addr_ind).".
i have set the connectn timeout to 0, but the error persists.
I ran my package and it was successfu. I tried running it again, but this time it throws me this error:
Dim_T_Account [56575]: Unable to prepare the SSIS bulk insert for data insertion.
Error: 0xC004701A at CallerType, CallerChannel, Dealer, DODealer, HotlineType, Model, Reg'l Signal Code, Account, Contact, DTS.Pipeline: component "Dim_T_Account" (56575) failed the pre-execute phase and returned error code 0xC0202071.
Information: 0x40043008 at CallerType, CallerChannel, Dealer, DODealer, HotlineType, Model, Reg'l Signal Code, Account, Contact, DTS.Pipeline: Post Execute phase is beginning.
Why suddenly without changing anything, i encountered this error? What does it mean it cannot prepare the SSIS bulk insert. My connection to server is working ok.
