Data Flow Components
Nov 1, 2006
Does anyone know a good place to download (or even purchase) custom data flow components?
Some ideas I've had (and I'm sure I'm not the first):
Transformations:
Filter
Sometimes I just want to filter out certain rows.
Unicode Converter
Convert all unicode columns in place.
Sequence Column
Adds a column with a sequence of numbers. Or perhaps even random numbers.
GUID Column
Adds a column with a GUID.
Destinations:
Garbage
Would act as a visual indicator in the designer that these rows are being discarded. You could add a data viewer right before it too.
Log File
Good for redirected error rows, writes them to various log files.
Email
Along the same lines as Log File, but sends off all the rows in a single email. Great for day to day things. Nothing too critical.
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Sep 7, 2006
Everything I've read says that custom data flow components are built by inheriting from the Microsoft.SqlServer.Dts.Pipeline.PipelineComponent class.
But the stock components such as the Derived Column data flow transformation must each be implemented by their own class. So how do I base my custom components on those classes? The documentation for the PipelineComponent class doesn't list any such subclasses.
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Aug 29, 2007
Hello,
Is it possible to use existing data flow components (Merge Join, aggregation,...) in a custom data flow component?
Thanks,
Yoann
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Nov 15, 2007
Hello everyone,
I am developing an SSIS solution where the Data Flow task extracts data from a source csv file, then performs several transformations on the source data and then starts inserting the cleansed data into several destination tables.
The Data Flow task is getting too large!
Question:
Is there a way (best practice) for grouping components in the Data Flow - similar to the Container concept in the Control Flow?
I know this question sounds too luxurious, but I really loose the overall picture, when the Data Flow canvas gets too crowded.
Thank you in advance.
Samar
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Sep 29, 2007
Hi,
I have a SSIS Package which I would like to modify using SSIS API. I need to put new component between some two existing data flow's components. During this process I need to disconnect two data flow's components using SSIS API. How can I do that?
Thanks,
Rafal
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Mar 29, 2007
I've been having an issue with the integration of a third-party DLL into a custom data flow component.
The company sent me a C# project that generates a simple console application. The project includes a class that calls their DLL with DllImport. The console application runs fine.
I created a stand-alone class using the C# class they sent to expose the methods of their DLL. In my custom component, I'm referencing this class to pass data to and from their DLL.
The first method from that stand-alone class that my component encounters simply gets their installation path from the registry and does not use DllImport. That path retrieval works fine. The next method calls a function that is declared with DllImport. Each time the call fails with "System.DllNotFoundException = {"Unable to load DLL AMZip.dll': Exception from HRESULT: 0xE06D7363"}".
I've copied this DLL to countless locations (e.g., the PipelineComponents directory, the project/solution bin directory) and included these paths in all manner of path variables.
What am I missing here? Their DLL is not strong named (does this matter since I'm using DllImport?), my stand-alone class is, and of course, the custom component itself is. I appreciate the help.
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Mar 6, 2007
HI All,
In several threads there has been discussion regarding adding connection managers to a package's data flow, etc. My challenge is that I have a large solution that contains many packages, and I need to change the connection manager linked to the data flow in all of the packages. When the solution was initially designed, data sources were used, and it has become a tedious maintenance issue to keep those in sync. We want to use a standard OLEDB connection manager, but adding a connection manager to each package and editing the corresponding data flow tasks in each package to use that new connection manager is a daunting task. I've coded a .Net module to access the packages, remove the old connection manager (data source) and add the new OLEDB data source. However, as I traverse the objects in the package hierarchy, when I come to the data flow object, the innerobject is not a dts object, but rather a _com object.. I can't seem to find any documentation/examples as to how to iterate the tasks within a data flow and change the connection manager. If you have any information, that would be quite helpful. If you reply with a code sample, if you would be so kind as to relate it to one of the sample packages provided with SSIS so I can run it, that would be great.
Thank you.
Steve.
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Jul 25, 2007
I have Data Flow task that contains 50 components.
My computer configuration: 1 GB RAM Microsoft Windows Server 2003
Periodicaly when i try to save package after making some changes Out of memory ... exceptions message box appears , and soon after this Not fatal error occurs ... message box shows . If i close solution and open it again all my 50 components disappears --instead I see clear list, and all my work losen.
Such "Not fatal errors" making hell out of job -- every time I need to change package i must add package to archive!!!
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Mar 29, 2007
I created a SSIS package and several data flow componenets for this package.
What does strategy exist to deploy SSIS package and data flow components into a enterparise server?
Thanks in advance.
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Nov 2, 2006
We're experiencing a problem where intermittently our SSIS packages will hang. There are no log errors or events in the event viewer. It will happen whether the package is executed from the SQL Job Agent or run from BIDs. When running from BIDs it appears to hang inside one of the data flows (several parallel pipes with sorts, merge joins etc...). It appears to hang in multiple pipes within the data flow component. The problem is reproducable, we just kill it and re-run, and it appears to hang in the same places.
Now here's the odd thing: as we simply open and close some of the components in the pipe line after the place it hangs, a subsequent run will go further in the pipeline before hanging. If we open and close all the components after the point it initially hung, the data flow will run fine, from there on out. When I say "open and close" I mean no changes are made, we simply double-click the component, like a merge join, then click 'close.'
To me this does not seem like a memory problem but likely something is wrong with the metadata, where opening a component and closing it somehow alters the metadata to "right it".
This seems to occur intermittently after we make modifications to the package. It's like if you make any mod, even unrelated to the data flow, you then have to go through and open and close every component in your package to ensure it will work. Again, no errors or warnings are fired.
Has anyone seen this type of problem?
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Feb 14, 2006
Hi, All,
I need to pass a parameter from control flow to data flow. The data flow will use this parameter to get data from a Oracle source.
I have an Execute SQL task in control flow to assign value to the Parameter, next step is a data flow which will need take a parameter in the SQL statement to query the Oracle source,
The SQL Looks like this:
select * from ccst_acctsys_account
where to_char(LAST_MODIFIED_DATE, 'YYYYMMDD') >?
THe problem is the OLE DB source Edit doesn€™t have anything for mapping parameter.
Thanks in Advance
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Mar 9, 2007
I have an Execute SQL Task that returns a Full Rowset from a SQL Server table and assigns it to a variable objRecs. I connect that to a foreach container with an ADO enumerator using objRecs variable and Rows in first table mode. I defined variables and mapped them to the columns.
I tested this by placing a Script task inside the foreach container and displaying the variables in a messagebox.
Now, for each row, I want to write a record to an MS Access table and then update a column back in the original SQL Server table where I retreived data in the Execute SQL task (i have the primary key). If I drop a Data Flow Task inside my foreach container, how do I pass the variables as input to an OLE DB Destination on the Data Flow?
Also, how would I update the original source table where source.id = objRects.id?
Thank you for your assistance. I have spent the day trying to figure this out (and thought it would be simple), but I am just not getting SSIS. Sorry if this has been covered.
Thanks,
Steve
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Jan 17, 2008
Dear All!
My package has a Data Flow Task. In Data Flow Task, I use a Script Component and a OLE BD Destination to transform data from txt file to database.
Within Data Flow Task, I want to call File System Task to move file to a folder or any Task of "Control Flow" Tab. So, Does SSIS support this task? Please show me if any
Thanks
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May 17, 2007
Hi everyone,
Primary platform is 64 bit cluster.
How to move information allocated in SSIS variables from Data Flow to Control Flow layers??
We've got a SSIS package which load a value into a variable inside a Data Flow. Going back to Control Flow how could we retrive that value again????
Thanks in advance and regards,
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Jan 12, 2006
I'm currently setting variables at the package level with an ExecuteSQL task. This works fine. However, I'm now starting to think about restartability midway through a package. It would be nice to have the variable(s) needed in a data flow set within the data flow so that I only have to restart that task.
Is there a way to do that using an SQL statement as the source of the value in a data flow?
OR, when using checkpoints will it save variable settings so that they are available when the package is restarted? This would make my issue a moot point.
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Jul 22, 2007
Hi all! I recently started working with SSIS and one of the things that is puzzling me the most is what's the best way to go:
A small control flow, with large data flow tasks
A control flow with more, but smaller, data flow tasksAny help will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Ricardo
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Dec 28, 2007
Hi,
I'm trying to implement an incremental data pull (Oracle to SQL) based on Andy's blog:
http://sqlblog.com/blogs/andy_leonard/archive/2007/07/09/ssis-design-pattern-incremental-loads.aspx
My development machine is decent: 1.86 GHz, Intel core 2 CPU, 3 GB of RAM.
However it seems the data flow task gets hung whenever I test the package against the ~6 million row source, as can be seen from these screenshots. I have no memory limitations on the lookup transformation. After the rows have been cached nothing happens. Memory for the dtsdebug process hovers around 1.8 GB and it uses 1-6 percent of CPU resources continuously. I am not using fast load to insert new records into my sql target table. (I am right clicking Sequence Container 3 and executing this container NOT the entire package in the screenshots)
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The same package works fine against a similar test table with 150k rows.
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The weird thing is it only takes 24 minutes for a full refresh of the entire source table from Oracle to the SQL target table.
Any hints,advice would be appreciated.
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Jun 30, 2006
Hi,
In another thread Jamie Thomson very informatively said "The components in SSIS
are deliberately atomic (i.e. they do something very specific) so that
its easy to put them together to build something greater than the sum
of the parts". Which does make a lot of sense. However, I've been finding that I end up having to create exactly the same "pattern" of combined transform components again and again in order to solve the same problem but in different dataflows (or even within the same dataflow). Cut-and-paste-tastic! In order to obtain real re-use, it seems to me like SSIS is crying out for an easy way to create new components by using composition - i.e. the ability to take commonly-used combinations of existing components and create new "super" components (without having to write Custom Transform Components in C#/VB.Net and handle everything in code).
Does anyone know if this sort of functionality is likely to make it into SSIS in the forseeable future?
Regards,
Lawrie
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Nov 24, 2006
Hi, all here,
Thank you very much for your kind attention.
I am wondering if it is possible to use SSIS to sample data set to training set and test set directly to my data mining models without saving them somewhere as occupying too much space? Really need guidance for that.
Thank you very much in advance for any help.
With best regards,
Yours sincerely,
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Mar 20, 2007
Good morning, all,
I am working on importing an Excel workbook, saved as multiple CSV flat files, that has both group level data and related detail row on the same sheet. I have been able to import the group data into a table. As part of the Data Flow task, I want to be able to save the key value for the group, which I will use when I insert the detail rows.
My Data Flow has the following components: The flat file with the data, which goes to a derived column transformation to strip out extraneous dashes, which leads to the OLEDB Destination component.
I want to save the value as a package level variable, so that I can reference it in another dataflow.
Is this possible, and if so, at what point do I save the value?
Thanks,
Kathryn
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Apr 10, 2007
Hi,
I am having a simple difficulty regarding my transformation component that I have created.
I followed all of the relevant documentation to create the component, UI and such, and when I run a program that transfers data through my component (without it doing anything to the data) to a flat file source, all I get in the flat file is ,,,,,,,,,,
Meaning that the data is not actually being passed through my component to the destination, but it does recongize the correct number of columns. I get this warning for each column: [DTS.Pipeline] Warning: The output column "PurchaseOrderDetailID" (20) on output "OLE DB Source Output" (11) and component "Source - PurchaseOrderDetail" (1) is not subsequently used in the Data Flow task. Removing this unused output column can increase Data Flow task performance.
To fix this issue, all I need to do is "check" the boxes in the advanced editor for my component. However, I want to be able have these boxes "checked" automatically.
My question is, when you "check" a box next to a column name in the advanced editor, what does that exactly do that allows you to transfer the data? What do I need to program in order for it to replicate that? I actually want it to happen automatically, so by default, all data in all columns are transfered through my component out the other side, so I just need to know how to do this by code, and not how to replicate the UI.
My component, I thought, did that automatically, as I specified everything that I thought was required based on all of the documentation I read. Obviously, I am missing something. Here are the methods that I believe would all be involved.
Please let me know what I am missing.
int[] inputColumnBufferIndexes; // ...
int[] outputColumnBufferIndexes; // ... used in PreExecute
PipelineBuffer outputBuffer; // used in ProcesInput
public override void OnInputPathAttached(int inputID)
{
IDTSInput90 input = ComponentMetaData.InputCollection.GetObjectByID(inputID);
IDTSOutput90 output = ComponentMetaData.OutputCollection[0];
IDTSVirtualInput90 vInput = input.GetVirtualInput();
foreach (IDTSVirtualInputColumn90 vCol in vInput.VirtualInputColumnCollection)
{
IDTSOutputColumn90 outCol = output.OutputColumnCollection.New();
outCol.Name = vCol.Name;
outCol.SetDataTypeProperties(vCol.DataType, vCol.Length, vCol.Precision, vCol.Scale, vCol.CodePage);
}
}
public override void PreExecute()
{
//base.PreExecute();
IDTSInput90 input = ComponentMetaData.InputCollection[0];
IDTSOutput90 output = ComponentMetaData.OutputCollection[0];
inputColumnBufferIndexes = new int[input.InputColumnCollection.Count];
outputColumnBufferIndexes = new int[output.OutputColumnCollection.Count];
for (int x = 0; x < input.InputColumnCollection.Count; x++)
{
IDTSInputColumn90 column = input.InputColumnCollection[x];
inputColumnBufferIndexes[x] = BufferManager.FindColumnByLineageID(input.Buffer, column.LineageID);
}
for (int x = 0; x < output.OutputColumnCollection.Count; x++)
{
IDTSOutputColumn90 column = output.OutputColumnCollection[x];
outputColumnBufferIndexes[x] = BufferManager.FindColumnByLineageID(output.Buffer, column.LineageID);
}
}
public override void PrimeOutput(int outputs, int[] outputIDs, PipelineBuffer[] buffers)
{
//base.PrimeOutput(outputs, outputIDs, buffers);
if (buffers.Length != 0)
{
outputBuffer = buffers[0];
}
}
public override void ProcessInput(int inputID, PipelineBuffer buffer)
{
//base.ProcessInput(inputID, buffer);
if (!buffer.EndOfRowset)
{
IDTSInput90 input = ComponentMetaData.InputCollection.GetObjectByID(inputID);
while (buffer.NextRow())
{
// TODO: Examine the columns in the current row.
// Add a row to the output buffer.
outputBuffer.AddRow();
for (int x = 0; x < inputColumnBufferIndexes.Length; x++)
{
// Copy the data from the input buffer column to the output buffer column.
outputBuffer[outputColumnBufferIndexes[x]] = buffer[inputColumnBufferIndexes[x]];
}
}
}
else
{
// EndOfRowset on the input buffer is true.
// Set EndOfRowset on the output buffer.
outputBuffer.SetEndOfRowset();
}
}
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Mar 19, 2008
Can I create ODP.NET connection in my SSIS connection manager. I had downloaded and installed ODP.NET on my server provided by oracle. The idea is I need to test this provider and see what is the difference connecting oracle database and the data load speed.
thank you
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Feb 17, 2006
I am using the SSIS wizard to pull data from DB2 z/os to sql server. The data flow task that is created converts the data to DT_STR Ansi 1252 before storing to sql server database. The package is blowing up on in the data conversion component...no match in found in target code page...for my city name field.
My old dts wizard didn't have this problem. The forums seem to indicate that SSIS is no longer doing some of the implicit conversions that DTS did and I may have to do more than one conversion.
What format type/code page do I use for the other conversion? The code page for my DB2 data source is 37.
I've tried several scenarios and none of them have worked. Any hints?
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Jul 7, 2015
We've been trying to use CozyRoc components in SQL server Data Tools. It seems like way to insert Cozy Components has been changed for SSDt as we're not getting CHOOSE ITEMS option in ToolBox(Right Click on Toolbox).link or Video where SSDT was used to Cozy Components.
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May 10, 2007
The following is a list of questions that I have not been able to obtain concrete answers. I am probably missing something:
1) ReadWriteVariables -- can the updated value for a ReadWriteVariable be accessed within the same data flow? It appears not as I think the PostExecute() fires at the completion of the data flow not the end of the Script Component. Secondarily, the Script Component is a non-blocking transformation so the component does not "see" the end of the pipeline prior to sending data down stream.
2) Record Count -- Because of #1 above, How could you calculate a record count for a data stream? It does not appear that one can calculate the number of records for a data stream within a data flow and then access the count from within the same data flow.
3) FinishOutputs() -- Is the concept of FinishOutputs() applicable to Script Component Destinations? Asked another way, is FinishOutputs() executed at the end of the data stream regardless of whether there are "real" outputs for the component? I can create a "Dummy" output to create FinishOutputs() but is this ok?
4) Script Component -- It appears that the Script Component Source, Transformation or Destination are really defined based on the columns defined in "Inputs and Outputs". Can you convert an Source script component to a transformation script component by simply adding an Output?
Sorry for these basic questions but I am not getting it completely. As you can tell...
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Jun 13, 2006
Hi everyone,
I have to extract, dayly a list of contacts on a exchange server in a table on our EDW on sql server 2005. Is it possible to get the information directly from a dataflow or i will have to developpe a script task ?
Need help desperatly !!!
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Jun 19, 2007
Hello,
I have noticed that for one of my data-flows, the process is really long during the phase "the final commit data insertion has started".
To be accurate, the process is fast until it reaches this phase. It happens often when I load millions of lines.
The extraction is done from a database SQL Server 2005 to a database SQL Server 2005, on the same server (with the SQL Server native provider).
I used a SQL Server destination but I have tried with an OLE DB destination and it is the same situation.
Why the process could be so long during this phase?
There is a way to optimised my package to avoid that?
Any idea is welcome.
Thanks.
Guillaume
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Mar 28, 2008
Hi All,
I want to export data from SQL Server2005 to an Excel spreadsheet thru "Data Flow Task". I am using OLE DB for SQL Server for the source connection and a Connection To Excel as my destination source. The Excel spreadsheet (2003) exists and has the first row with column names. I don't have any warnings before trying to execute.
The SQL datable fileds are
i) ID - Int
ii) RefID
iii) txtRemarks - nvarchar(MAX)
iv) ddlWaterLevel - nvarchar(50)
While executing the tasks, I got the error
Error: 0xC0202025 at Data Flow Task, Excel Destination [427]: Cannot create an OLE DB accessor. Verify that the column metadata is valid.
Error: 0xC004701A at Data Flow Task, DTS.Pipeline: component "Excel Destination" (427) failed the pre-execute phase and returned error code 0xC0202025.
After analysing I found in the DataFlow --> Excel destination --> Advanced Editor for Excel Destination, the default data type for txtRemarks shows as "Unicode string [DT_WSTR]". But this is supposed to be "Unicode text stream [DT_NTEXT]". Even if I change the data type in the design time, It doesn't accept.
Please do help me out.
thanks
Sanra
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Apr 3, 2014
I need to see inside a SSIS 2012 project a new SSIS installed component, but in the SSDT 2010 I cannot see the SSIS Data Flow Items tab for adding data source/data destination respect to the choose toolbox items pane.
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Feb 28, 2008
Hi, all experts here,
Do we always have to use SCD component for the loading of data into data warehouse to handle changes of rows?
I am looking forward to hearing from you and thank you very much in advance for your help.
With best regards,
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Jan 29, 2008
I need to call a stored procedure to insert data into a table in SQL Server from SSIS data flow task.
I am currently trying to use OLe Db Destination, but I am not sure how to map inputs to OLE DB Destination to my stored procedure insert.
Thanks
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May 12, 2006
I am getting the following error running a data flow that splits the input data into multiple streams and writes the results of each stream to the same destination table:
"This operation conflicts with another pending operation on this transaction. The operation failed."
The flow starts with a single source table with one row per student and multiple scores for that student. It does a few lookups and then splits the stream (using Multicast) in several layers, ultimately generating 25 destinations (one for each score to be recorded), all going to the same table (like a fact table). This all is running under a transaction at the package level, which is distributed to a separate machine.
Apparently, I cannot have all of these streams inserting data into the same table at one time. I don't understand why not. In an OLTP system, many transactions are inserting records into the same table at once. Why can't I do that within the same transaction?
I suppose I can use a UnionAll to join them back together before writing to a single destination, but that seems like an unnecessary waste and clutters the flow. Can anyone offer a different solution or a reason why this fails in the first place?
Thanks in advance.
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Jan 5, 2006
I need to know what a table's max row Identity is part way thru a data flow. I can't get it at the beginning of the data flow. I need to either (1) add it to the data buffer part way thru or (2) set it into a package variable and then reference the var in a script component.
I've not found a way to add a database column to the data buffer without doing a lookup for each row (too slow and not appropriate here) or some goofy oledb source and then merge join into the data buffer on a contrived join.
I've read questions about referencing package vars in scripts but I can't get that to work. DTS.Variables("varname").Value isn't recognised when I code it up.
Anyone have an idea or solution for either one of these? If you're gonna explain the script code, please include the entire snipet including the INCLUDEs, etc.
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