I have a created a DTS packges which is reading data from sql server table, manipulate this data as required and then create a text file with that data. I created the text file using FileSystemObject. I was writing one field at a time to the text file.
I need to same thing but instead of creating text file, I need to create a excel file with each column from database going to separate column in excel sheet. I tried to do this with FileSystemObject, but it was wrting all the columns from database to one cell in excel sheet. How can I fix this problem?
i have an SSIS package that exports to an excel file. This works fine. the problem is that it appends the data instead of overwriting the file. Is there any way to overwrite the file like you can with a flat file? I have to email the file everyweek and don't want to have to clear it out manually. Any help would be appreciated
I had just installed SQL 2005 dev on my laptop and got an error message when I tried to create a package using the BI IDE. I received the same error using VS2005 IDE. But the project was created regardless without any packages. When I tried to create a new package in the project, I received the same error again, but with an option to view the error details.
Following is the text of the error details:
TITLE: Microsoft Visual Studio ------------------------------
Trying to figure out the best method of reading in a number of flat files, all with different number of columns and data types and outputting them to a database.
Here's the problem: They are EBCDIC encoded and some of the columns are packed decimal. I've set up one package that takes the flat file, unpacks the decimal (Using UnpackDecimal component) and then sending the rest through a second component to go from EBCDIC -> ASCII.
What I need is a way to do this for every flat file based on the schema for that flat file. One current solution is to write a script/app to create the .dtsx XML file and then execute that for each flat file. It appears like this may be possible, but I haven't gotten far enough to know for sure. So my questions are this:
1) Is there an easier way to do this (ie somehow feed the schema to the package and use it to dynamically set up the column makers and determine which columns get fed to the unpack decimal component.
2) If there isn't a better way, will dynamically creating the .dtsx XML file based on the necessary input/output columns for each flat file work? If so, what is a good source of information on this (information about how the .dtsx XML file is set up, what needs to be changed/what doesn't, etc).
There is a small problem encountered while creating a package in sql server 2005. Actually i am using a flat file which has 820 rows and 2 columns which are seperated by line feed(for ROW) and tab(for COLUMN).after importing i found that ther are only 800 rows imported into the table. Ather verifying the input file i found out that there are some null values in the second column so there is no line feed for those values. Can anyone please help me how to give multiple delimiters for the same input flat file.
Hello everybody... I have a very simple SSIS package that loop throught the worksheets of an Excel file and insert the data into a SQL server 2005 table.
The SSIS is very simple and works fine the problem is that after the Package executes if I double click on the Excel file imported I have the message that the file is in use.
I think that the Excel connection manager of the package doesn't release the Excel resourse but this is only a guess..
Do am I right? If yes how can I release the resource?
I'd need an help because I'm stucked!! I have to import an Excel file into my DB. The Excel file is made by 2 worksheets but I need only one and inside this worksheet I have to loop through the columns and for each column I define a Data Flow that trasform the data as necessary and then insert into the table.
I started with a "Foreach ADO.NET Schema Rowset Enumerator" with connection=excel file and the schema was set to "Columns" but the loop go also through the worksheet that I don't need..
after 4 hours of tries I'm lost... Someone could give me an advice? ThankX Marina B.
Our company wants to allow our customers the ability to import employee data. Each customer's employee data changes depending on things like organisation structure etc. so the format of the data to be imported needs to change. We can do a lot of this with dynamic SQL, but are looking at moving it to SSIS as we think it will save us a lot of pain later on and for other features in SSIS.
We're stuck at a fairly early part of the process as we don't know how to dynamically import our spreadsheet. So far our best idea is to connect to the excel connection as the only step in the data task and then to use a script task on the control task, write code to connect to the excel source (set the excel source to not treat the first row as headers so we can do a 'select top 1 *...' ) then create a dynamic sql command to create the table.
Once this is done we would then have another data task that actually puts the data into the newly created table. This all sounds very difficult though. What are the options for doing what we want to do... have a feeling that we're missing something basic.
I have the Excel Connection Manager and Source to read the contents from an Excel file. For some reason couple of numeric fields from the Excel worksheet are brought over as nulls even though they have a value of 300 and 150. I am not sure why this is happening. I looked into the format of the fields and they are set to General in Excel, I tried setting them to numeric and that did not help.
All the other content from the excel file is coming thru except for the 2 numeric fields.
I tried to bring the contents from the excel source to a text file in csv format and for some reason the 2 numeric fields came out as blank.
Any inputs on getting this addressed will be much appreciated.
Is there anyway to send excel file from ssis using send mail task without saving the excel file locally. I need to automate the process which involves loading the excel file from the database and send it to some people.
I am in the process of moving from a 32-bit SQL Server 2005 Enterprise (9.0.3054) to a 64-bit SQL Server 2005 Enterprise (9.0.3054 with 4 CPUs and 8GB of memory on Win 2003 SP2) and the process has been very frustrating to say the least. I am having a problem with packages that I created on my 64-bit SQL Server. I am importing a few tables from the 32-SQL Server into the 64-bit SQL Server using the Task --> Import to create the package.
Sometimes when I am creating a package I get the following error in a message box:
SQL Server Import and Export Wizard
The SSIS Runtime object could not be created. Verify that DTS.dll is available and registered. The wizard cannot continue and it will terminate.
Additional information: Attempted to read or write protected memory. This is often an indication that other memory is corrupt. (System.Windows.Forms)
Other times when I run a package that has run successfully before I get the following error:
Faulting application dtexecui.exe, version 9.0.3042.0, stamp 45cd726d, faulting module unknown, version 0.0.0.0, stamp 00000000, debug? 0, fault address 0x025d23f0.
The package appears to hang when running. By this I mean that the Package Execution Progress shows progress up to a point then it just stops. (The package takes about 17 seconds to run normally) CPU usage is at 1% and the package cannot be stopped.
I have deleted and re-created the package several times and I have also re-installed the service pack on the SQL Server (9.0.3054) but that did not help.
I am new to SSIS. I followed the direction of the tutorial Creating Simple ETL Tutorial package in BooksOnline. I have tried more than five times and have done exactly as suggested in the tutorial but it does not work.
1)[Lookup [30]] Error: Row yielded no match during lookup.
2) [Lookup [30]] Error: The "component "Lookup" (30)" failed because error code 0xC020901E occurred, and the error row disposition on "output "Lookup Output" (32)" specifies failure on error. An error occurred on the specified object of the specified component.
3) [DTS.Pipeline] Error: The ProcessInput method on component "Lookup" (30) failed with error code 0xC0209029. The identified component returned an error from the ProcessInput method. The error is specific to the component, but the error is fatal and will cause the Data Flow task to stop running.
4) [DTS.Pipeline] Error: Thread "WorkThread0" has exited with error code 0xC0209029.
Can someone help me with this tutorial error? or Am I doing something wrong.
I am trying to create a DTS Package which will run a SQL query and export the results to an Excel file. I would like to the name of the excel to be "dynamic". What I would like is for the name to be ChronicDownSiteReport - mmddyy.xls. The mmddyy is the date which the package is executed. How can I do this? Also, I want this package to be excuted at 1am every Sunday Morning. I have attempted to schedule this to run, but when I come to work on Monday, the excel file is not present and the email, which is sent telling me that the file was created is not in my mailbox.
Trying to upload excel in server where excel is not installed. BIDs was there in the server, when i am trying to craete Excel source I am not able.what the workround for this.. How to upload excel without excel installed on the server.
I am using a Excel Source to get the data from an excel file to sql server 2005 table. A couple columns are coming in a double precision float, but some values have characters in them, but those values are coming out as null, even though I changed the datatype from float to unicode string. Any inputs on resolving this will be much appreciated.
We have 10 sheets in Excel File and 10 sheet contains errror data. How to load 9 sheets data in to 1 destination and error data in to other destination?
Good Day to all, Hope you could help me w/ my project. Im creating a DTS Package. The source data will be coming from an excel file going to my SQL table. The DTS package is scheduled to execute daily, but the source data will be coming from different excel filename. Example, today the DTS will get data from Data092506.xls. Then tomorrow, the data will be coming from Data092606.xls. How can I do this? The DTS I've already done has a fixed source data file. Please help. Thank you so much. God Bless.
I'm creating a report that is designed to be exported to Excel so that the end user can manipulate the data. There are two main columns that I'm concerned with - TimeTaken and OTTimeTaken (for overtime).
Our application does not track OTTimeTaken so it's default will just be 0, but I need the excel file to have a formula that automatically adds the TimeTaken to the OTTimeTaken in a third cell for the total number of hours as that value will be added by the A/R department for invoicing.
For a database, we have 4 data files in a particular file group and the file sizes are almost 70 GB each.
Do I come across any performance issues if I create/pre-allocate an additional data file in the same file group so that the existing files don't grow too much?
I have a table in my DB with the following columns: PlayerID, RoundNum, Score. PlayerID RoundNum Score 1 1 10 1 2 10 1 3 10 Any scoring for my game is going to end up in this table. However, I would like to display the score standings with a player's name at the far left, and with each Round as a column: R1 R2 R3Player1 10 10 10 Can any of the SQL gurus tell me if this is possible, and how it can be done? Thanks!
Hi,Please help, I'm getting desperate. Any ideas warmly welcomed!I'm trying to read from a basic excel file (1000 or so rows fromcolumn A) but am having problems. The code I am using is:Declare @Return IntSET NOCOUNT ONExec @Return= [master]..[sp_addlinkedServer] 'READ_XLS', 'EXCEL','Microsoft.Jet.OleDB.4.0' , 'e:jsbackupRACodes.xls',NULL, 'EXCEL 8.0'print 'set up Return : ' + convert(varchar(10),@Return)--NB E: is the drive as seen oon the serverEXEC sp_addlinkedsrvlogin@rmtsrvname = 'READ_XLS',@useself = 'true'print 'login Return : ' + convert(varchar(10),@Return)When I try to read from the (one) excel sheet in the file, viaSelect * from [READ_XLS]...RACodes$or to list what tables/sheets are available, viaexec sp_tables_ex 'READ_XLS'I get the following error:OLE DB provider 'Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0' reported an error.Authentication failed.[OLE/DB provider returned message: Cannot start your application. Theworkgroup information file is missing or opened exclusively by anotheruser.]OLE DB error trace [OLE/DB Provider 'Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0'IDBInitialize::Initialize returned 0x80040e4d: Authenticationfailed.].What am I missing?*Many* thanks in advance.Andy
Hi everybody, i'm a newbie to SSIS and I'm having a problem dynamically creating a new excel spreadsheet in SSIS. What I need to do is be able to dynamically create a brand new Excel spreadsheet after a data flow task completes.
When I try to create an Offline cube from Excel 2007 I get the following error message. This used to work but I cannot figure out what to loo for.
Code Snippet Microsoft OLE DB Provider for Analysis Services 2005 : OLE DB error: OLE DB or ODBC error: XML for Analysis parser: The 'CreatedTimestamp' read-only element at line 1, column 38747 (namespace http://schemas.microsoft.com/analysisservices/2003/engine) under Envelope/Body/Execute/Command/Batch/Create/ObjectDefinition/Database/Cubes/Cube/Scripts/MdxScript was ignored.; XML for Analysis parser: The 'LastSchemaUpdate' read-only element at line 1, column 38803 (namespace http://schemas.microsoft.com/analysisservices/2003/engine) under Envelope/Body/Execute/Command/Batch/Create/ObjectDefinition/Database/Cubes/Cube/Scripts/MdxScript was ignored.; XML for Analysis parser: The 'CurrentStorageMode' read-only element at line 1006, column 4554 (namespace http://schemas.microsoft.com/analysisservices/2003/engine) under Envelope/Body/Execute/Command/Batch/Create/ObjectDefinition/Database/Dimensions/Dimension was ignored.; XML for Analysis parser: The 'CurrentStorageMode' read-only element at line 1006, column 17325 (namespace http://schemas.microsoft.com/analysisservices/2003/engine) under Envelope/Body/Execute/Command/Batch/Create/ObjectDefinition/Database/Dimensions/Dimension was ignored.; XML for Analysis parser: The 'CurrentStorageMode' read-only element at line 1006, column 57387 (namespace http://schemas.microsoft.com/analysisservices/2003/engine) under Envelope/Body/Execute/Command/Batch/Create/ObjectDefinition/Database/Dimensions/Dimension was ignored.; XML for Analysis parser: The 'CurrentStorageMode' read-only element at line 1006, column 60047 (namespace http://schemas.microsoft.com/analysisservices/2003/engine) under Envelope/Body/Execute/Command/Batch/Create/ObjectDefinition/Database/Dimensions/Dimension was ignored.; XML for Analysis parser: The 'CurrentStorageMode' read-only element at line 1006, column 62847 (namespace http://schemas.microsoft.com/analysisservices/2003/engine) under Envelope/Body/Execute/Command/Batch/Create/ObjectDefinition/Database/Dimensions/Dimension was ignored.; XML for Analysis parser: The 'CurrentStorageMode' read-only element at line 1006, column 65497 (namespace http://schemas.microsoft.com/analysisservices/2003/engine) under Envelope/Body/Execute/Command/Batch/Create/ObjectDefinition/Database/Dimensions/Dimension was ignored.; XML for Analysis parser: The 'CurrentStorageMode' read-only element at line 1006, column 72718 (namespace http://schemas.microsoft.com/analysisservices/2003/engine) under Envelope/Body/Execute/Command/Batch/Create/ObjectDefinition/Database/Dimensions/Dimension was ignored.; XML for Analysis parser: The 'CurrentStorageMode' read-only element at line 1006, column 75425 (namespace http://schemas.microsoft.com/analysisservices/2003/engine) under Envelope/Body/Execute/Command/Batch/Create/ObjectDefinition/Database/Dimensions/Dimension was ignored.; Errors in the metadata manager. The attribute hierarchy for the Month attribute cannot be created because a hierarchy with the same ID or name already exists..
Can somebody advice my on what to look for? Thx!
The attribute hierarchy for the Month attribute cannot be created because a hierarchy with the same ID or name already exists. ----- There is no other Month?
I am planning to develop a single package that will download files from ftp server, move the files to internal file server and upload it in the database. But I want to run this package for multiple ftp file providers. For each provider the ftp server might be different and the transformation to upload the files into a database table might be different.
So can I create a single package and then multiple configuration files (xml), which will contain the details fo the ftp file providers and then pass the xml file as a parameter while executing the package. The reason being that the timings of fetching the files is different for each ftp file provider and hence cannot be combined into one.
Here's the deal. I have a child package, (say, pack01.dtsx), which uses a dtsconfig file for its connection string, which can be called from other packages, but which also can be called by itself.
However I also have another package (say, pack02.dtsx) which uses the same dtsconfig file for its connection string. It calls on pack01.dtsx.
When I use DTEXECUI and run pack01.dtsx, specifying the proper .dtsconfig file, it goes well. But when I try and run pack02.dtsx, an error occurs saying pack01.dtsx connection cannot be established.
How do I pass the connectionstring being used by pack02 to pack01, without having to remove the configuration file setting of pack01? Can a Parent Package configuration and a configuration file try and map to the same property?
I have a small question relating to the creation of DTS Packages. I have to create a DTS Package with the following conditions -
- The accounting department gets a text file every month, they also want the same text file in Excel format. Which they will send it to a third party. - I want to be able to create a scheduled report based upon this information. - Also setting a schedule on the day when this will take place.
I know how to create a DTS Package, however I am a little new. So any help will be greatly appreciated. Let me know if you need more info.
I've created a DTS package and now I need to distribute it todifferent servers.I've been looking for a way to automatically/programatically create aDTS package, but have not found anything definite.From the DTS package itself, I see where I can save the dts package asa structured file, with the name XXXXX.dts. Once I have that DTSfile, how dow I turn it back into a dts package in Enterprise manager?I don't want to have to manually create the package for 300+servers...Thanks,Jennifer
I'd like to know if there's any way I can make a package that runs a script in SQL 2005 Standard Edition? I'm also wondering if there's a way to write a script to access database to a different server.. specifically SQL 2005 Standard.
