I would like to know what happens during the different phases when executing a data flow task. I noticed that there are the validation, prepare for execute, pre-execute, execute, post-execute, and cleanup phases.
We all know that the execute phase is the actual execution of the desired data flow (source to destination) but I was wondering what the other phases do. Knowing what happens during those phases will help me optimize the whole execution. 1 question raised by someone here is "what is the difference between the Prepare for Execute phase and the Pre-Execute phase? and what does the validation phase do?
I have one Data flow, which trasfer data into two table (Parent & Child) .
My question is : Is there a way, i can load data first into parent and then child table. because child table getting load first after that parent table loading. (Execution should be Source Parent --> Destination Parent) First , (Source Child --> Destination Child) Second. In my case its executing reverse. So i have foreign key constraints at child table , its giving foreign contraints error while running ssis package
Can any one tell me, How to define my own sequence execution at the Data flow task (Source - Destination) ?
I have a SSIS (CTP June 2005) package with several data flow tasks. One data flow has 2 OLEDB data sources which are then unioned together, followed by a conditional split, then a derived column transformation, which feeds into an OLEDB destination. When I run the package, this particular data flow seems to run fine and then just stops. There are no errors and the records counts don't move. I've used data viewers to look at the data and it seems fine. I've switched the OLEDB destination with a flat file and execution runs fine, then switched back to OLEDB and it hangs again (over and over). There's nothing unusual about the OLEDB destination, and all the other OLEDB destinations work fine. It also seems to hang on the same destination row number count, but again that row has been verified as valid. In fact, I dropped the DB table and recreated it with no constraints and all fields nullable, but the problem persists. Help?
i got a foreach loop that has about 20 data flow tasks(same database connections but different extractions) but i notice that when i execute the project it only runs 4 data flow tasks at a time.
i know that there is an option for each data flow to set the "Engine Threads", but is there a way to set the thereads in a foreach loop or for the whole project so it will execute all data flow tasks in one go for each loop.
I have a package that loads staging tables from an Oracle source DB. In the data flow tab I have 30+ read table/write table task combinations. When I run the package 3-4 of the read/write combos execute at a time. What I'm trying to control is the priority order of the combo execution. My goal is to minimize to total load time by having the larger table transfers run first and the smaller table transfers fill in until they are all complete. Currently, the largest table (16 million) transfers last (because it was the last combo that I created?).
Has anyone come up/determined a generic way to capture and log indicative information within a data flow in SSIS - e.g., a number of rows selected from the source, transformed, rejected, loaded, various timestamps around these events, etc.? I am trying to avoid having to build a custom solution for each of the packages that I will have (of which there will be dozens). Ideally, I'd like to have some sort of a generic component (such as a custom transformation) that will hide the implementation details and provide a generic interface to the package.
It is not too difficult to achieve something similar on the control flow level, but once you get into data flows things get complicated.
I got a serious problem with an SSIS-Import. My packages import from a foreign source into a kind of temp-table (actually it's not a temporary table, it´s just filled with data and truncated after completion of the package), do some transformations and then I got a data flow task that simply copies all the rows from the "temp" to the final table. I get the following errors (here there are two simultanious copy operations from two different "temps" into the same final table.
Error: 0xC0202009 at _temp to finaltable 5 2 1, OLE DB Destination [16]: An OLE DB error has occurred. Error code: 0x80004005.
An OLE DB record is available. Source: "Microsoft SQL Native Client" Hresult: 0x80004005 Description: "Transaction (Process ID 68) was deadlocked on lock resources with another process and has been chosen as the deadlock victim. Rerun the transaction.".
Error: 0xC0209029 at _temp to finaltable 5 2 1, OLE DB Destination [16]: The "input "OLE DB Destination Input" (29)" failed because error code 0xC020907B occurred, and the error row disposition on "input "OLE DB Destination Input" (29)" specifies failure on error. An error occurred on the specified object of the specified component.
Error: 0xC0047022 at _temp to finaltable 5 2 1, DTS.Pipeline: The ProcessInput method on component "OLE DB Destination" (16) 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.
Error: 0xC0047021 at _temp to finaltable 5 2 1, DTS.Pipeline: Thread "WorkThread0" has exited with error code 0xC0209029.
Error: 0xC02020C4 at _temp to finaltable 5 2 1, OLE DB Source [1]: The attempt to add a row to the Data Flow task buffer failed with error code 0xC0047020.
Error: 0xC0047038 at _temp to finaltable 5 2 1, DTS.Pipeline: The PrimeOutput method on component "OLE DB Source" (1) returned error code 0xC02020C4. The component returned a failure code when the pipeline engine called PrimeOutput(). The meaning of the failure code is defined by the component, but the error is fatal and the pipeline stopped executing.
Error: 0xC0047021 at _temp to finaltable 5 2 1, DTS.Pipeline: Thread "SourceThread0" has exited with error code 0xC0047038.
Information: 0x40043008 at _temp to finaltable 5 2 1, DTS.Pipeline: Post Execute phase is beginning.
Information: 0x402090DF at _temp to finaltable 5 2 1, OLE DB Destination [16]: The final commit for the data insertion has started.
Information: 0x402090E0 at _temp to finaltable 5 2 1, OLE DB Destination [16]: The final commit for the data insertion has ended.
Information: 0x40043009 at _temp to finaltable 5 2 1, DTS.Pipeline: Cleanup phase is beginning.
Information: 0x4004300B at _temp to finaltable 5 2 1, DTS.Pipeline: "component "OLE DB Destination" (16)" wrote 5041 rows.
Task failed: _temp to finaltable 5 2 1
Warning: 0x80019002 at KDStat_alles_412: The Execution method succeeded, but the number of errors raised (7) reached the maximum allowed (1); resulting in failure. This occurs when the number of errors reaches the number specified in MaximumErrorCount. Change the MaximumErrorCount or fix the errors.
Task failed: 412
Warning: 0x80019002 at kdstat_alles_master: The Execution method succeeded, but the number of errors raised (7) reached the maximum allowed (1); resulting in failure. This occurs when the number of errors reaches the number specified in MaximumErrorCount. Change the MaximumErrorCount or fix the errors.
Error: 0xC0202009 at _temp to finaltable 1 2 1, OLE DB Destination [4468]: An OLE DB error has occurred. Error code: 0x80004005.
An OLE DB record is available. Source: "Microsoft SQL Native Client" Hresult: 0x80004005 Description: "Transaction (Process ID 82) was deadlocked on lock resources with another process and has been chosen as the deadlock victim. Rerun the transaction.".
Error: 0xC0209029 at _temp to finaltable 1 2 1, OLE DB Destination [4468]: The "input "OLE DB Destination Input" (4481)" failed because error code 0xC020907B occurred, and the error row disposition on "input "OLE DB Destination Input" (4481)" specifies failure on error. An error occurred on the specified object of the specified component.
Error: 0xC0047022 at _temp to finaltable 1 2 1, DTS.Pipeline: The ProcessInput method on component "OLE DB Destination" (4468) 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.
Error: 0xC0047021 at _temp to finaltable 1 2 1, DTS.Pipeline: Thread "WorkThread0" has exited with error code 0xC0209029.
Error: 0xC02020C4 at _temp to finaltable 1 2 1, OLE DB Source [1]: The attempt to add a row to the Data Flow task buffer failed with error code 0xC0047020.
Error: 0xC0047038 at _temp to finaltable 1 2 1, DTS.Pipeline: The PrimeOutput method on component "OLE DB Source" (1) returned error code 0xC02020C4. The component returned a failure code when the pipeline engine called PrimeOutput(). The meaning of the failure code is defined by the component, but the error is fatal and the pipeline stopped executing.
Error: 0xC0047021 at _temp to finaltable 1 2 1, DTS.Pipeline: Thread "SourceThread0" has exited with error code 0xC0047038.
Well, it looks like those two processes simply deadlock each other. But there are 11 Simultanious Data Imports which all go fine. The Issue only occurs at those two. The structure of the packages is exactly the same everywhere.
Is it possible that a previous update-sql query hasen´t committed properly and locks the datasets?
Hi All, Just needed an insight into the IF-ELSE construct w.r.t its implementation in SSIS or a similar methodology that could be adopted in SSIS while executing a Package.
Scenario : I want to Start with importing data from Different sources to SQL Server Destination. For Which, i define 3 different Data Flow Tasks each involved in importing data from an external source to SQL Server Destination.
1] Text File Inbound Task : Source - Flat File Source ; Destination - SQL Server Dest. 2] Excel Inbound Task : Source - Excel Data Source ; Destination - SQL Server Dest. 3] Xml Inbound Task : Source - XML Data Source ; Destination - SQL Server Dest
Finally i want to execute the package with an IF-ELSE Scenario which will Check for the external Source being :
I'm trying to conditionally execute a dataflow based on the presence of a data file. If the data file isn't present, I'd like to execute gracefully without error.
Logic is as follows:
If FileExists Then execute dataflow Else exit w/o error End If
I've got the code ready to go, but I'm not sure how to do this conditional branch logic. Right now, the code calls the Dts.Results.Success / Failure. The problem, however, is Failure is exactly that... which doesn't result in the graceful exit I'm looking for.
Is there documentation somewhere about multiple execution paths in SSIS control flow? I didn't find documentation anywhere. I have a situation where I have two tasks that take considerable time, but could be executed in parallel (to speed up things) and I was wondering whether SSIS supports parallelism.
To illustrate the issues in simultaneous execution, I created a test SSIS package. In the package, I have five tasks, let's call them T1, T2, T3, T4 and T5. The taks are connected with "green arrows" like this:
T1->T2
T1->T3
T2->T4
T3->T4
T5 is not connected. The tasks can be e.g. Send Mail tasks, that's not relevant to this issue. I put a breakpoint in each task and execute the package.
When I execute package, T1 and T5 become active, i.e. the arrow that displays where the package execution currently is, is in two tasks simultaneously. Now F10 (step over) doesn't seem to work "Unable to step. Not implemented". If I press F5 nothing happens. After I press F5 for a second time tasks T1 and T5 and executed. Why don't they execute with the first pressing of F5? I would additionally like to know whether these two tasks are executed in parallel or sequentially, i.e. in the same thread or in two threads? Is there documentation of this?
The execution stops at T2&T3. Again, pressing F5 doesn't do anything, but the second time I press F5 T2 and T3 are executed.
I'm building a package wherein I perform a SQL task(A) if the error log is not empty. This same SQL task(A) is also being used by another data flow task(B). The precedence points from B to A bottom to top. When I execute, all the tasks in the downward direction (precedence pointing downward/sideways) execute but this one doesnt as it points updwards. I can copy and paste task A and make B point to A downward, but I dont want to duplicate A in the same package.
Is there any other approach?
If you dont understand the above, see the flow:
X (SQL task) ----on success-------------> A (SQL task) | ^ | | ...(sequence of steps) | | | | | B(Data Flow Task) ---------failure --------|
Execution flow doesnt move from B to A, even though its a failure condition. Hope this explains the problem.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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)
The same package works fine against a similar test table with 150k rows. http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/gg168/boston_sql92/7.jpg http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/gg168/boston_sql92/8.jpg
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.
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.
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?
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 ?
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.
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.
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.
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,
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
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?
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.
I am new to SSIS programming, so bear with me if my question seems naive to you gurus. I have a situation that needs to set the data source for a data flow from external .NET application ('external' means that the application will run on different process than the SSIS). I am trying to set the data source on which the data flow works from my C# application in a DataSet format. Ideal solution is not to save the DataSet to any file on harddisk (I know that will work, but has the overhead of writing, reading and managing the temp file). What I want to achive is that the business logic of picking data for SSIS Data Flow to process is controlled inside my C# application, the Data Flow just does what it does best - Transformation. Have any of you successfully done this before?. Thanks!
I have a fairly simple data flow task that loads data from one table (OLE DB Source) into another table (OLE DB Destination). The data type for one of the pairs of columns is nVarChar(120) and it contains version information that looks like a decimal. When I run the export, the destination has a trailing zero added after the decimal point as if it were a numeric column which invalidates our comparisons (string 1.0 is not the same as string 1.00). There is no cast or convert done to this column, it is a straight copy. Any ideas what could be causing this or how to fix?
