Creating Connection Manager From Configuration File.
Oct 26, 2007
Hello,
I am new to SSIS. Could someone please tell me how to make the Connection Manager use the connection string from the configuration file?
I am trying to have connection information set in one place for all the packages to use.
I have already created a .dtsConfig file based on my existing Connection Managers.
Do I need seperate dtsConfig files for each database?
Hi, I dont know if I should post this question here, or on oracle forums, but here goes ...
I made a simple package that performs 2 Excecute SQL Tasks, one task does a select query on a SQL Server DB Table, the other task does a select query on an Oracle DB Table.
The package runs fine in BIDS when debugging, but when I deployed the package to a file system and added it to an sql server agent Job, it all went wrong ...
I tried the ms oledb dataprovider (ole db) for oracle but also the oracleclient data provider (ado.net) but the package always fails.
message Failed to acquire connection "aaa.bbb.oracleClient". Connection may not be configured correctly or you may not have the right permissions on this connection.
the OnError logrow for the package itself says almost the same.
Now my question is: What do I need to configure to get it all working? I think I need to configure the oracle db no? What should I configure? ...
I want know how to config SSIS Package With different connection Manager.
Sample .
When Design time i gave The Connection Manager(Devlopement Server) Name : STG1.XXXSchema
Server Name STG.ssss
Password : xxxxx
I make the The XML configuration file .
after deploy the Package i want from Development Server to Production Server . so i will change the Package Config File Open wiht Notepad .
Server Name STG.qqq
Password :xxxxxx
after Edit Connection String I run the Package . It Always Taking Whatever igave the Connection String When Design time only .is not taking what connection string edit hte in the Package Config File. Please Any one give the Solution .
How we can Change the connection string in XML Config File .Whne I tested . It always taking what ever we given in the Desing Time .
Greetings All; I am having trouble getting an indirect configuration to work. Can someone offer a hand?
Here's the deal.... I have a package the currently has an OLE DB Connection manager. I have an XML configuration file set up to acquire the connection string. That works fine. I have a package variable that contains the absolute path to the .dtsconfig file.
How can I get the connection manager to read the package variable (which has the path to the *.dtsconfig file) instead of the hard coded value?
I originally developed SSIS packages with the destination DB to be SQL Server 2005 for unit testing on my desktop. We are planning on deploying to Oracle. After changing the Provider and other attributes in the configuration file the package loads, however there are lots of issues. The primary one is that the mappings are gone. I'm not sure if that is the result of how the table names are stored "Oracle"."File" versus [SQLSERVER].[File] . Even after attempting to change the way the table names appear I still get the message "the external metadata column is out of sync with the data source columns". Then it lists all of the columns that need to be added.
Is there any way to accomplish this that you are aware of.
At one point in my package I call a simple web service that kicks off a process on a remote server using a Web Service Task . I need to be able to point the task at a test instance while I'm testing and a different one when it goes to production. The simple answer (you'd hope anyway) is to just store the ConnectionString for the HTTP Connection Manger in Package Configurations for TEST and PROD. I did this and when the package runs, the connection manager's connectionstring does get changed, but the web service task doesn't use this value. It uses the value defined in the WSDL file which in my case contains the URL for the TEST instance.
Am I missing something obvious? Do I really have to get the WSDLs from PROD and TEST and deploy both of them to the appropriate environment? What does the ConnectionString in the HTTP Connection Manager actually do then?
I have a SQL Server 2005 box that was moved from a domain environment to a non-domain environment and was never dropped from its original domain before moving over. Subsequently a new domain was created at the data center this SQL Server box now resides in. The machine was dropped from its old domain and joined to the new one.
All the while the service accounts were set to the local admin account. When I tried to start the Configuration Manager I got the message "Connection to target machine could not be made in a timely fashion.". I read some blog entries and tried changing all the service accounts to Local System and the error message still came up.
All of the SQL Server services run fine. It is just this management console that I cannot open. I wasn't with this employer when this box was moved to the data center so I do not know if it worked prior and there isn't anyone here that could give me its history.
i want to create single xml configuration file which should include the details to configure all the files in all packages.
Usually as u know whenever we configure the package one xml config file is created where we can change the path name for file or database details. Like that we will create a xml config file for each package.
but i want the solution as on xml config file for multiple packages
I am trying to install SQL Server 2014 on W10. SQL Server installed, but failed to create a server that be connected to. SQL Server Configuration Manager has no options for creating a server either. How do I create the server.
Problem: ColA (Source) Rounding error to PARTY_NO (Destination) I have a field of text of in a flat file that the flat file connection manager Source picks up correctly €ś70000893€? However when it gets the OLE DB Connection Destination the data has changed to 70000896. That€™s before its even Written to the database. The only clue that something is wrong in the middle is the great Data viewer shows the number as 7.000009E+07 Other clues looking at the data it appears there is a rounding error on only the number that dont end in 00 ColA (Source) PARTY_NO (Destination) 71167300 71167296 70329000 70329000 70410000 70410000 Any ideas people? Thanks in advance Dave
Hello Experts, I am createing one task (user control) in SSIS. I have property grid in my GUI and 2 buttons (OK & Cancle). PropertyGrid has Properties like SourceConnection, OutputConnection etc....right now I am able to populate Connections in list box next to Source and Output Property.
Now my question to you guys is depending on Source Connection it should read that text file associated with connection manager. After validation it should pick header (first line of text file bases on record type) and write it into new file when task is executed. I have following code for your reference. Please let me know I am going in right direction or not.. What should go here ? ->Under Class A
I have a package A which is copied from another existing package B as most of the data structure and ETL mappings are same.
What I need to change in Package A is to change the file in Flat File Connection Manager. I can change it in the conneciton manager editor. However, it is automatically changed back to the previous one everytime when I try to Save All or run the package.
I also tried to copy/paste this Flat File Connection Manager in the same package but samething happen. The package file is not set 'Read Only" so anything else can Saved well except for the File name in connection manager.
Is this a bug? It would be very appreciated if anyone can give me any idea about this.
I'm new to SSIS. I'm trying to build a simple package, run it on dev and migrate it to our stg and tst environments. It works on my dev environment great! It simply loads data from a flat file into a table. The trouble i'm having is exporting the connection string info to an xml file and runnign it on other environments. I am not storing the package on the db. I am saving to a file and running through SQL Server BI Development Studio.
I go to "Configuration File" and export InitialCatalog, ServerName, User, Password to the file. I can manually change the xml to the new environment but don't know how to set the password. It's not in the xml and i am constantly getting "Login failed for 'sa'" errors. Anyone know how to do this. I CAN get this whole process to work if i use Windows authentication security but this isn't an option. I need to use the db security.
I have just finished installing SQL 2005 Ent Edition on Win 2000 Adv Server, SQL2005 SP2, and SP2 Hotfix KB934458. After the installation, I could see and configure all services via SQL Configuration Manager and SQL Server Surface Area Configuration tools. This worked for a couple of days and now both configuration tools no longer detect SQL2005 components. SQL Server Surface Area Configuration issued an error that said "No SQL Server 2005 components were found on specified computer. Either no components are installed, or you are not an administrator on this computer. (SQLAC)". SQL Configuration Manager did not list any installed services. I don€™t know what caused this. Anyone has any idea? Please help! Below is the Installation Report which shows installed components.
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The following components are installed on this server
Is there any real purpose to the File Connection Manager? Not the Flat File Connection Manager, just the plain old File Connection Manager.
I have one in my SSIS package because I thought it might make writing to a file easier. But from what I can tell, it doesn't really do much. I have to pull the file name from the connection manager and basically open and manage the file myself in my scripts.
I went this route because I have two scripts that write to the file in turn... one writing out parent records and the other inserting the child records after each parent.
The script looks like this:
Code Block Dim outFile As String outFile = Dts.Connections("TestFile.LDIF").AcquireConnection(Dts.Transaction).ToString()
Dim sw As New StreamWriter(outFile, True) sw.WriteLine() sw.WriteLine("dn: " & Dts.Variables("GroupID").Value.ToString()) sw.WriteLine("changeType: add")
sw.Close()
I have to close the connection every time because the other script uses the file. It seems that this is quite inefficient. Am I using the File Connection Manager incorrectly? What's a more appropriate way to do this?
I could open the file in a different script and store the StreamWriter object in a global variable, I suppose...
How can I dynamically change the file name in File connection Manager in SSIS package?
I can do this in SQL 2000 but how to achieve the same thing in SQL 2005. I have to generate 10 different excel file and just need to change the file name in connection manager for excel file
I am using SSIS 2005 on Windows 2003 server. Using Excel Source to dump the data for staging database. I am getting following error while I execute it through BI studio's execute button.
I have deployed my packages into Sql Server and I am using Configuration File. As my Data Source is Excel, I have changed the connection string during deployment with Server Path. But I am getting the following errors. Actually the File Exist in Path. May I know What is cause of the issue? Do I need to give any permission to execute the package.
SSIS Error Code DTS_E_CANNOTACQUIRECONNECTIONFROMCONNECTIONMANAGER. The AcquireConnection method call to the connection manager "Excel Connection Manager" failed with error code 0xC0202009. There may be error messages posted before this with more information on why the AcquireConnection method call failed.
component "Excel Source Service Contract Upload" (1) failed validation and returned error code 0xC020801C.
One or more component failed validation.
There were errors during task validation.
DTS_E_OLEDBERROR, Error Code: 0x80004005 Source: "MS JET DB Engine" Description : Path is not valid
I would like to set up the flat file connection manager that would take any file name that starts with "test" and then it could be anything after that. Something like test_*.txt.
Hi All, I am using flat file connection manager to create a text file. I could not find any way to set the file location (folder) dynamically such as using variable, expression etc, Is there any alternative I can use to achieve this? I really don't want to hard-coded the file location as it may differ in production environment. Thanks in advance.
As I have a file whose delimiters can be different. I have need to change the delimiters and filename programatically.
I have come across a way to change the filename using the inbuilt expressions setter. Howver the columns are not listed, possibly because they are on the advanced tab and theoretically each column delimiter could be different.
Will I have to do this through a script or is there an easier method?
I need to dynamically change the file name of my destination flat file connection everytime the package runs, obviously i do not want to edit the config file everytime.
I think the best way to do this is by a script taks that sets the connection manager filename property with a variable that i dynamically populate.
Is this the right way?
I just want to be sure that there is not an easier or better way to do this?
It seems to me, that the best way is to have one Environment Varible containing the name of the SQL Server, so that you can look up the configuration in the SSIS Configuration Table when you run the package.
Is this the preferable way of doing it ? I would like to hear some positive/negative comment of why chosing a configuration type instead of another.
It seems to me that putting all of the configuration in the Environment variable is harder work but most secure (server breakdown vs table corruption/database error...)
Hi, I want to read only the first row in flatfile. I do not see this option on "Flatfile connection manager editor" setting wizard. Any work around for this?
I've tried all of the different column delimiters, but apparently this file does not use any of the built-in delimiters, such as tab. I think there are just blank spaces between the columns.
I've requested that the file be comma-delimited instead, but in the event that this is not possible, how should I handle this situation?
I need to know how I can programmatically set a Flat File Connection Manager's Column Delimiter value.
The Data Warehouse project I am working on, receives daily information feeds that could contain one of two delimiters. Which is just dumb...anyways, as it is now we have two seperate Data Flow Tasks which handle these two delimiters. Currently we have a script taks that "sneak previews" each incoming flat file to determine which delimiter it has, and direct our flow to the correct Data Flow Task to handle it.
I do not want to have to maintain 2 DFTs. How can I get around this problem?
Even if there is a way to do this by passing variables/setting expressions in the Flat File Connection manager, I would do that. Does not necessarily HAVE to be a pure programmatic approach.
ANY help would be greatly appreciated!
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I have a Dataflow with three componnets: 1. script component 2. script component 3. flat file destination
After I connected second script to the flat file destination and tryed to opend Flat File Destination Editor, a dialog with this message showed:
TITLE: Editing Component ------------------------------ The component is not in a valid state. The validation errors are: Error at Data Flow Task [Flat File Destination [76]]: The component locale ID has not been set. Flat file adapters need to have the locale ID on the flat file connection manager set.
Do you want the component to fix these errors automatically? ------------------------------ BUTTONS: &Yes &No Cancel ------------------------------
No matter which button I pressed, I was not able to work with flat file connection manager.
When I selected a file path in connection manager editor, I got an error "A valid file name must be selected". I tryed different files in differnet folders, but got the same error.
So I tryed to open some older working packages. On flat file destination componnent , when I clicked on tab "Mapping", recieved error " [Flat File Destination [51]]: Unable to access the acquired connections.",
Flat File connection manager showed "A valid file name must be selected". But althought these old packages seem to be broken in design, they a running OK.
I thought, that the problem could be in wrong expression for connectionString, but it still remains after removing it.
Please, could you give me advice, where could be a problem or what should I check?