However, column2 was about 6000 bytes of unicode. We are bulk inserting
into a table specifying nvarchar(4000). When it encounters high unicode
rows, it throws a truncation error (16).
We really need information contained in the first 200 bytes of the string in
column2. However, the errors are causing the calling SPROC to abort.
Please let me know if you have any suggestions on workarounds for this
situation. Ideally, we would only Bulk Insert a sub-section of column2 if
possible.
I have been racking my brain over this hopefully someone has run into a similar issue. I am attempting to Bulk insert several Unicode (UCS-16BE) data files that are missing their Unicode Signature. If I add a Big-Endian signature (FE FF) I can get the files to load into a table without using a format file, but if I attempt to use a format file I get the following error ( I need to use a format file due to more columns in the actual table than in the file):
Msg 4832, Level 16, State 1, Line 1 Bulk load: An unexpected end of file was encountered in the data file. Msg 7399, Level 16, State 1, Line 1 The OLE DB provider "BULK" for linked server "(null)" reported an error. The provider did not give any information about the error. Msg 7330, Level 16, State 2, Line 1 Cannot fetch a row from OLE DB provider "BULK" for linked server "(null)".
If I attempt to load without the Unicode signature, with a format file the correct number of characters load into the fields, but the data is all €˜€™s. I have tried various codepages (including 1201 & 1200) and codepage settings and none have any effect on the data that is loaded or not loaded.
Code Using Format File: BULK INSERT [ARE_Test_Stage].[dbo].LFBK FROM 'U:ProjectsTempUnicodeTest2 est-w.TXT' WITH ( DATAFILETYPE = 'widechar', CODEPAGE = '1201', MAXERRORS = 2147000000, FORMATFILE = 'U:ProjectsTempUnicodeTest2FormatFiles est-w_METADATA.fmt', KEEPNULLS )
The destination table is truncated and indexes are dropped before loading and after data being inserted we re-create the indexes.
Before this, a view extracts data from more than 22 tables from a staging database and tries to insert this data in the destination table.
it used to take 12-15 mins, but since yesterday loading one particular table never completes. While loading, the database is set to Simple recovery. There are no blocking. It's part of a daily batch thats loads 6 GB of data everyday. But while loading on particular table it's just keep running for hours. I tried rebuilding the indexes and re-starting the SQL Server but of no use.
Any help is much appreciated as this production batch job.
I am using SQL Server Data Tools for Visual Studio 2012. I have a very simple SSIS package with a Data Flow task that exports from an OLE DB Source to a tab-delimited unicode Flat File Destination and a Bulk Insert task that loads from the file. Both the Flat File Destination and Bulk Import are using the same code page. The Bulk Insert task is using the wide char format to read from the file. The process works fine with nvarchar and int columns, but when I add a unique identifier column it fails with "type mismatch or invalid character for the specified code page".
I have two versions of "rsk.txt" one with 1.9mill rows and one with the first 2000 rows only. The files have one column only with 115 characters that I'll split in to several columns later using SUBSTRING. The one with 2000 rows fires in to the database with no problems whatsoever using this exact code, the other one throws the following error:
Server: Msg 4866, Level 17, State 66, Line 1 Bulk Insert fails. Column is too long in the data file for row 1, column 1. Make sure the field terminator and row terminator are specified correctly.
How can I resolve this problem?
EDIT: I tried several different row- and fieldterminators but this exact one works for the small data-file so I assume it should also work for the large one...the large one is however copyed directly using binary ftp from a unix-filesystem and the small one is manually copied into a new txt-file using UltraEdit.
I'm having a problem doing a bulk insert on a tab delimited text file into mssql 2005 using either bulk insert or bcp. When using the following bulk insert command I get the "The column is too long in the data file for row 1, column 2" error. I have tried
The data file only has data for the first 10 columns of a table with over 100 columns.
First 10 table columns have the format of CREATE TABLE [dbo].[CustomerDefinition]( [Rowid] [int] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT FOR REPLICATION NOT NULL, [CustomerId] [varchar](15) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NOT NULL, [Name] [varchar](50) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NULL, [Addr1] [varchar](50) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NULL, [Addr2] [varchar](50) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NULL, [Addr3] [varchar](50) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NULL, [City] [varchar](30) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NULL, [State] [varchar](50) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NULL, [Zipcode] [varchar](10) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NULL, [Country] [varchar](50) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NULL CONSTRAINT [PK_CustomerDefinition] PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED
The data-file looks like this (it is tab delimited):
1 1 BEN ONE BENVENUTO 1 BENVENUTO ST. CLAIR & AVENUE ROAD TORONTO ON 2 1 BIGGIN DDP PARTNERSHIP 1 BIGGIN LTD. 1 BIGGIN COURT NORTH YORK ON 3 1 EVA MELIA CORPORATION 1 EVA ROAD SUITE #412 ETOBICOKE ON 4 1 FINANC CONCERT PROPERTIES 200 BAY STREET- SOUTH TOWER SUITE 2100- PO BOX 56 TORONTO ON 5 1 LONGBRID BERKLEY PROPERTY MANAGEMENT INC 1 LONGBRIDGE ROAD 2ND FL THORNHILL ON 6 10 DORA VILLA LASFLORES C/O FOCUS PROPERTIE 10 DORA AVENUE TORONTO- ON 7 10 HOLMES HALTON COMMUNITY HOUSING 10 HOLMESWAY PLACE ACTON ON 8 100 CANYON DEL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT 100 CANYON AVENUE BATHURST & SHEPPARD NORTH YORK ON 9 100 CEDAR LAWRENCE CONSTRUCTION 100 CEDAR AVENUE YONGE & MAJOR MACKENZIE WEST RICHMOND HILL ON 10 100 GOWAN KANCO - 100 GOWAN LTD. 100 GOWAN AVENUE PAPE & DANFORTH EAST YORK ON
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.
SELECT * from tableeMass where Name=N'???' In the above select statement in microsoft SQL server 2005 ,I only want to select all the rows whose name is '???' a Gee'z string(Gee'z is set of Ethiopian characters) it is a unicode string(???=gebru in english,the reason why it is question mark is the characters are gee'z).When we execute the select statement, it brings all the rows instead of the rows whose name is '???'. why? the data type of column Name is nvarchar(50).would you please help me in tackling the problem. please reply me soon,I really need it badly soon for my project of Localized database development. thanks inadvance. gebru
We've installed the Oracle provider for OLE DB on SQL Server 2005, which has the default collation (SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS), and we've created a linked server for the Oracle 9.2.0.5 database, which has AL32UTF8 as the database character set. We can successfully insert strings into VARCHAR2 columns on Oracle from SQL Server via EXEC SP_EXECUTESQL('INSERT OPENQUERY(...) VALUES(...)') -- as long as the strings (whether selected from NVARCHAR columns on SQL Server or specified as literals with the N prefix during testing) only contain Windows-1252 characters.
If the SQL statement contains a character above U+00FF, the string on the Oracle side is incorrectly/doubly encoded; there are nearly (but not exactly) 4 bytes per character instead of the 1 or 2 you'd expect from ASCII/Latin-1 characters encoded as UTF-8.
We've tried reconfiguring the linked server: collation compatible = false, use remote collation = true, and collation name = Latin1_General_BIN2. But that had no effect.
I am building a data warehouse. Some of the data comes from an AS 400 EPR system. I used the OLEDB connector when first pulling the data into SQL Server doing simple import data from table option. That worked great for getting the initial data load into SQL Server and creating the base SQL Server tables although it was excruciatingly slow (that was probably due to the transport from the AS 400).
Now, I need to get new records that are added to the AS400 side of things on a daily basis. For that, I was trying to use the OLEDB AS400 connector. However, I found that the OLEDB connector wouldn't work when I was trying to specify an SQL Statement for what to get; i.e., a simple query like Select * from TWLDAT.STKT where BYSDAT >= '2005-01-27' would simply not work. Found articles here explaining that it is probably a problem on the AS400 side of things and where people recommended using an ADO ODBC data reader source for this type of thing. So, I'm trying to implement that. However, I have a huge problem with it.
The original tables that got created were mapped to use NVARCHAR fields for character data. When the ADO ODBC data reader source accesses the AS400 data, it insists on interpreting the string type fields as being unicode strings and giving it a data type of DT_WSTR when what I need it to have is a plain old DT_STR data type. When the strings are interpreted as unicode strings, they cannot be converted in a way that allows the NVARCHAR fields to be filled with the data. The exact error message I get for all the fields that should wind up being nvarchar fields is as follows:
Column "BYStOK" cannot convert between unicode and non-unicode string data types.
Okay, so I try to change the data types in the ADO ODBC data reader to be plain DT_STR data types and I cannot do so.
Does anyone have any idea why the ADO ODBC data reader source insists on interpreting the string data coming from the AS 400 as unicode string data or why it refuses to allow that to be changed to DT_STR data type?
Thanks in advance for any info. By the way, if there is a better way than the ADO ODBC data source to get at this data when I need to specify an SQL command, I would love to hear about it. Not wild about using ODBC in the OLEDB age.
Since my foxpro OLE driver has been rendered useless by service pack 1 for sql server 2005 I am forced to use the .net data provider for odbc.
I am importing a number of tables.. each time I add the DataReader Source to the dataflow and connected it to the OLE DB Destination I get a load of the good old "cannot convert between unicode and non-unicode string data types" errors...
So I'm having to do derived column transforms, for each and every column that it coughs up on.
Using expressions like (DT_STR,30,1252)receivedby to convert the "recievedby" column to a DT_STR,
Some of these tables have 100 string columns.. so I'm getting a bit sick of the drudgery of adding all these derivations...
Is there any way to tell this provider to stop deciding that the strings in the foxpro tables are unicode?
I have a problem that I'm not sure how to handle. In the application I am working on I will be importing fixed length strings from a CD into the database. Each specific character in the string represents some value.
I can't decide if I should just create a single field of 895 characters or create 895 single character fields. When I need data from the database I won't need all 895 characters of information, I'll only need one or a small subset of values.
Does it really matter which approach I take?
Thanks in advance for any advice/tips you can provide.
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 am using SQL Server Compact Edition and I get an exception when running a query with a LIKE-operator which parameter is a string with length greater than 256 characters.
Has anybody had this problem? Any ideas on how to fix this?
I'm seeing a problem with printing very long strings using the PRINT command on a VARCHAR(MAX) variable. After a certain amount of characters the string is truncated....it looks like the limit is at around 8,000 characters.
Does anyone know of a solution or a workaround for this?
I have to update a field within a table of 60 records or so. Each record has a different field value. it's type varchar. i was given an excel file with the field values and was thinking of a bulk update like bulk insert, but i don't recall that it's possible that way.
Is the only way to create a table, bulk insert, then merge the two tables together with UPDATE?
Just wanted to see if there was an easier way to do it, otherwise i'll take the latter route. Thanks!
I have a table containing 8 million records. I need to replace 2 million of these records with a scaled down query that goes something like: SELECT 1, ShareholderID, Assets1 FROM MyTable (Yields appx. 200,000 recods) SELECT 2, ShareholderID, Assets2 FROM MyTable (Yields appx. 200,000 recods) . . . SELECT 10, ShareholderID, Assets1 + Assest2 + Assets3 + ... + Assets9 FROM MyTable (Yields appx. 200,000 recods)
Updates and cursors just seem to be too slow.
So far I have done the following, but was wondering if anyone could think of a better way. SELECT 6 million records that don't need to be deleted into a #TempTable Use statements above to select into same #TempTable DROP and recreate Original Table SELECT 6 + 2 million records INTO original table.
This seems rather convoluted. Is there a better approach? Would it be worth while to dump data to a file and use bcp / Bulk Insert
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'm trying to use Bulk insert for the first time and getting the following error. I think it might have something to do with my Format File and from the error msg there's a conversion error for the first column. In my database the Field is nvarchar(6) so my best guess is to use SQLNChar for the first column. I've checked the end of each line is CR LF therefore the is correct for line 7 right?
Msg 4863, Level 16, State 1, Line 1 Bulk load data conversion error (truncation) for row 1, column 1 (ASXCode). Msg 7399, Level 16, State 1, Line 1 The OLE DB provider "BULK" for linked server "(null)" reported an error. The provider did not give any information about the error. Msg 7330, Level 16, State 2, Line 1 Cannot fetch a row from OLE DB provider "BULK" for linked server "(null)".
BULK INSERTtbl_ASX_Data_temp FROM 'M:DataASXImportTest.txt' WITH (FORMATFILE='M:DataASXSQLFormatImport.Fmt')
nsert and Update Unicode Below I write some line of my SP But I does not write Unicode data to table, it writes like ???????? How can avoid this problem
SP header:
CREATE PROCEDURE ltrsp_AddEditUnit @UnitID char(4), @UnitName nvarchar(20), @UtrID int
Insert:
INSERT INTO ltrtb_Unit (UnitID,UnitName,UtrID) VALUES (@UnitID,@UnitName,@UtrID)
Update: --- UPDATE ltrtb_Unit SET UnitName=@UnitName,UtrID=@UtrID
Before implementing memory based bulk copy insert with IRowsetFastLoad interface of SQL Server 2005 OLE DB provider, I want to know some considerations.
- performance : compared with T-SQL's "BULK INSERT ..." and bcp utility
- SQL Server's resource usage : when running memory based bulk copy, server resource's influence
- server side action(behavior) : when server is busy, delayed-update means IRowsetFastLoad::Commit(true) method can insert right after?
- row-count : The rowcount limitation can be inserted by IRowsetFastLoad::InsertRow() method before IRowsetFastLoad::Commit
I have a web form with a text field that needs to take in as much as the user decides to type and insert it into an nvarchar(max) field in the database behind. I've tried using the new .write() method in my update statement, but it cuts off the text after a while. Is there a way to insert/update in SQL 2005 this without resorting to Bulk Insert? It bloats the transaction log and turning the logging off requires a call to sp_dboptions (or a straight-up ALTER DATABASE), which I'd like to avoid if I can.
Hi all,I am using a Strongly Typed DataSet (ASP.NET 2.0) to insert new data into a SQL Server 2000 database, types of some fields in db are nvarchar. All thing work fine except I can not insert unicode data(Vietnamese language) into db.I can't find where to put prefix N. Please help me!!!
I'm using a Unicode sql script imported using OSQL. One of the valueswe are attempting to insert is a Registry Multi-String value by passinga string to a stored procedure. These Multi-String values appear to bedelimited by a Hex 06 (^F) character. When I import this character,embedded in a string preceeded by an N, i.eN'somethingsomething2something3'I end up with TWO of this character in the db. I get :somethingsomething2something3Any help figuring out why or how to fix this? We MUST use Unicode dueto extended character sets, so NOT using Unicode is NOT a solution.
We got this little issue of passing around (updated and inserting) small dataSets (20-500 or so records) from fat clients to a remote server running .Net / SQL 2005.
Instead of trying to fudge the data and make updates in .Net, we just decided it would be a lot less nonsense if we just wrap up the dataSets in an XML string, have .Net just pass it thru as a parameter in a SP and let SQL parse it out using openXML. The data is small and server is low use, so I'm not worried about overhead, but I would like to know the best methods and DO's & Don'ts to parse the XML and make the updates/inserts....and maybe a few good examples. The few examples I've come across are kind of sketchy. Seems it's not a real popular method of handling updates.
In my package , I am used CDC Source transformation and received the Net changes then insert into Destination. But whatever Data coming from CDC source data type Varchar value needs to Converting Non Unicode string to Unicode string SSIS. So used Data conversion transformation to achieved this.  I need to achieve this without data conversion.
