Greetings my SSIS friends
This is probably a silly question but what exactly is the purpose of creating Data Sources when it is possible to set up individual connection managers?
Thanks for your help in advance.
It looks like you can only extended connection managers for data flow sources.
Is there anyway to develop a custom connection manager for the SQL destination in the data flow destinations?
I can€™t use hardcoded connection strings. I can€™t use configurations because they are not encrypted. I already have managed code that will give the corrected connection string. I already have a custom connection manager that I use from the data flow sources. I just need one for data flow destinations but I can€™t see a way to extend into the OLE DB?
Hey all,
I'm coming from ASP and I used to have a global connection string accessible to all of my ASP pages that I'd use for all of my data access. This was really convenient because I could easily switch to a backup or local data source for testing/debug by changing the connection string in one place.
Now, I'm using ASP.NET with Web Matrix and I love the drag and drop functionality but its dropping my connection string all over the place. How can I do this and keep my connection string in one spot so I can have the same convenience of switching data sources.
Thanks in advance!
Larry
Hello Experts,
I€™m new at SSIS and would like to try the follow easy function.
Just get some data from my database und put into a text-file.
All function going well.
Right now I€™ve got just one problem I can€™t resolve.
At the window €śConnection Managers€? are the connections I used in my project. But how can I make this connection more dynamical? E.g. I have a connection.txt file and the Connection Manager should set his properties after read this txt-file.
Have someone an idea?
Best regards,
Alex
Hello,
View 20 Replies View Relatedapologies if this is the wrong group ..
whenever I create an Integrated Services project and attempt to add a Connection Manager I get the error
Connection Manager 'blah' is not properly installed on this computer.
(Microsoft.DataTransformationServices.Design)
This happens with all menu options except New Connection..
I have uninstalled and reinstalled both Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005 and made sure I have selected everything in each case
what am I missing?
Thanks
Chris
Hi,
I am unsure if i am managing my connections in the correct way... but as it stands we have them in a .dtsConfig file that each package references in order to get the relevant details..
This is working fine, except that in total our ETL project uses 6 different connections, and none of the packages utilise all 6.
This leads to an error message upon opening up EVERY package stating that there are connection strings in the .dtsConfig that are unused, yeah, thats the idea!
The way i have gotten around this, is to just include all 6 connection managers in every package, but my question is, is there a better way to achieve this same result??
are we going about this in a bit of a cackhanded way?
any incite would be useful..
Best Regards
Chris
I'm trying to create a new package and keep getting different errors. The package uses the same .NET ODBC provider as another package.
I can test the connection fine.
When I add a DataReader Source and select my connection I get the following warning:
Not all connection managers have been set. Set all connection managers.
If I click the refresh button I get this warning message:
Error at Data Flow Task [DataReader Source [6338]]: The runtime connection manager with the ID "" cannot be found. Verify that the connection manager collection has a connection manager with that ID.
All my collections have ID's and they are all read only.
If I ignore those warning I can enter my SQL command and go to the column mappings tab and see all the columns I selected but I then see several warnings all saying the same thing.
Driver does not support this function
I'm not able to close the Advanced Editor at this point.
Any ideas?
I'm trying to create a custom connection manager and I have ConnectionType in the DtsConnection attribute set to "MSMDM". When I tried to create one in a package I got:
The connection type "MSMDM" specified for connection manager "{A8543B4B-41D9-4E69-9580-3D1A491AD719}" is not recognized as a valid connection manager type. This error is returned when an attempt is made to create a connection manager for an unknown connection type. Check the spelling in the connection type name.
(TestHarness1)
So, a few questions:
What are the valid connection manager types?
Why can I not create a new connection manager type of my own?
If I cant create new connection manager types then the purpose of being able to build custom connecton managers is defeated. Hence, what's the point in giving us the ability to create custom connection managers?
-Jamie
I am not seeing an option to use the OraOLEDB.Oracle driver when defining connections in ssis. This driver shows up in management studio when trying to create linked servers so I don't know why it wouldn't show up here. All the client tools are installed fine and the linked server works. Any ideas?
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When I brought up the BI DEV studio first tiem the Connection Managers area showed up, but after I closed it by mistake from next time on wards it is not coming up.
Can some one from this form help me how to get the Connection Managers area(pane) back?
Thanks in advance.
Regards
Mamidi
I am working on some SSIS packages [ deployed in MSDB , Integration services] ,
I need to list down the dataconnections , particularly the database names and servers.
Hi,
My database admin just migrated my packages from development to user testing server.
My packages configured to read the connection manager properties from the .dtsconfig.
But I am getting "The connection "CRPRDNMSQEZ.CIReporting2" is not found"
CRPRDNMSQEZ.CIReporting2 is being my connection manager.
I did find and replace server name in the dtsconfig but I guess it didn't work.
Any help is appreciated.
Is there a way to dynamically create a connection manager @ run time? I would like to do this from a data set of connection strings so I can link them into a union all component.
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We are using a €śFlat File Connection Manager€? in our SSIS package.
The package fails occasionally while loading in the validation phase with the error
€ś-1073659899,0x,The connection type "FLATFILE" specified for connection manager "<some name>" is not recognized as a valid connection manager type. This error is returned when an attempt is made to create a connection manager for an unknown connection type. Check the spelling in the connection type name.
This error is not returned always.
Also I feel €śFLATFILE€? is a valid type of connection manager. This value €śFLATFILE€? is inserted by the editor and not manually typed. This is a weird behavior of SSIS.
Sometimes I get this error with respect to some other connection manager used in the package as well. €śOLEDB€? is the type of that other connection manager.
Has anybody faced similar issue earlier?
Please let me know some thoughts, suggestions, and possible work-arounds to avoid this error as this is very critical for us.
Regards
Madhavan.TR
Hi Experts here,
Sorry if this query had been raised earlier. While In DTS Packages we retrieve connection details for all Connections in a Package from a table and then assign them to the following global Variables
gv_Source_User, gv_Source_Pwd, gv_Source_DataSource, gv_Source_InitialCatalog
Finally we reassign these variables to repective Connection Properties using Dynamic Properties Task. After Migrating to SSIS though we are able to assign almost all variables to Properties of Connection Managers via Expression except the Password which we donot find in the drop down list in order to assign gv_Source_Pwd.
Is there any work around to assign passwords dynamically?
Many Thanks
Subhash Subramanyam
Hi,
I'm trying to use an OLE DB connection manager from inside a custom log provider, but can't get the code to work - I get an exception "A first chance exception of type 'System.InvalidCastException' occurred in SSEALogProvider.dll" on the last line of the code below.
I know the connection is OLE DB from looking at .CreationName.
I've tried both with & without ToConnectionManager90(), but appearently not in the right way, both cases gives the same exception.
Any tips on what I'm missing? All the examples I've seen are either creating (instead of using) connection managers, or are file based connection managers. Any and all help much appreciated!
Thanks/Kristian
if (this.ConfigString.Length == 0 || connections.Contains(ConfigString) == false ||
connections[ConfigString].CreationName != "OLEDB")
{
infoEvents.FireError(0, "SSEALogProvider", "The ConnectionManager " + ConfigString + " specified in the ConfigString property cannot be found in the collection, or is of the wrong type (expected CreationName='OLEDB'.)", "", 0);
return Microsoft.SqlServer.Dts.Runtime.DTSExecResult.Failure;
}
else
[...]
public override void OpenLog()
{
if (!connections.Contains(this.ConfigString))
throw new Exception("The ConnectionManager " + this.ConfigString + " does not exist in the Connections collection.");
ConnectionManager connectionManager = connections[ConfigString];
IDTSConnectionManager90 connectionManager90 = DtsConvert.ToConnectionManager90(connectionManager);
object connObj = connectionManager90.AcquireConnection(null);
//ConnectionManagerOleDb connectionManagerOleDb = (ConnectionManagerOleDb)(connectionManager.InnerObject);
//object connObj = connectionManagerOleDb.AcquireConnection(null);
if (connObj == null)
{
events.FireError(0, "SSEALogProvider", "Could not connect to the log database with connection string " + ConfigString + ".", "", 0);
return;
}
// Exception on next line: "A first chance exception of type 'System.InvalidCastException' occurred in SSEALogProvider.dll"
OleDbConnection oledbConnection = (OleDbConnection)connObj;
If I have 6-8 queries running in parallel, Whether having a Single connection Manager (for the same source) for all the Extract performs faster or having Distinct Connection Manager for each of the extract performs faster ?
Regards
Subhash Subramanyam
I need to periodically import a (HUGE) table of data from an external data source (not SQL Server) into SQL Server, with the following scenarios:
Some of the records in the external data source may not exist in SQL.Some of the records in the external data source may have a different value at different imports, but this records are identified univocally by the same primary key in the external datasource and in SQL Server.Some of the records in the external data source may be the same in SQL.
Due to the massive volume of the import, I would like to import only the records which are different from what I have in SQL Server (cases 1 and 2 above). In fact case 2 is the most critical.
I thought of making a query with a left outer join between the data in the external data source table (SOURCE) and the data in the SQL Server table (DESTIN). The join is done on the respective primary keys (composed keys of up to 10 columns) and one of the WHERE conditions will be that the value in SOURCE is different from the value in DESTIN.
The result of this query would be exactly what I need to import.
How to do this in SSIS??? I couldn't figure out how to join tables in different data sources yet.
In fact I cannot write a stored procedure to do that, since one of the sources is in a datasources not SQL Server.
I have seen the Lookup transformation in this article http://www.sqlis.com/default.aspx?311 but this is not exacltly what I want to do.
Another possibility is to use the merge join, but due to the sorting I believe its performances would be terrible!
Thanks in advance for your suggestions!
Hi,
I am pretty new to SSIS. I am trying to create a package which can accept data in any of several formats. i.e. CSV, Excel, a SQL Server database/table and import the data into my destination database.
So far i've managed to get this working OK. However I am now TOTALLY stuck. I'm currently trying to just concentrate on the data sources being a CSV (using a Flat File Data Source) and/or an Excel Spreadsheet.
I can get the data in and to my destination using a UNION ALL component and mapping the data sources to it so long as both the CSV file and the Excel spreadsheet exist.
My problem is that I need my package to handle the possibility that only the CSV file might exist and there is no Excel spreadsheet. In which case i'd like the package to ignore the Excel datasource completely. Currently either of my data sources do not exist I get errors and the package terminates.
Is there any way in SSIS that I can check all my data sources to see which ones exist (i.e. are valid). If they exist I want to use them. If it doesn't exist i'd like to disgard it (without error - as long as there is a single datasource the package should run)
I've tried using the AcquireConnection method in a script task on each of my connections, hoping that it would error if the file/datasource did not exist. It doesn't though (in the case of an Excel datasource it just creates a empty excel file for me).
The only other option I can come up with are to have seperate packages depending on the type of data we want to import and then run a particular package depending on the format of the source data. This seems a bit long winded. I am pretty sure I must be able to do what I want to achieve but I can't work out how.
I'll be grateful to anyone who can send me any tips/hints/links on how I can achieve this.
Many thanks
Rob Gibson
Hi, i'm wondering which is the best way to search data in a SQL Server.
I reach data using Data Sources and Data Views and also with OLE DB Source with a Data access mode: Named query.
I have to write the data into a Flat File. So, does any one knows which is the best practice for this? Or any one of the two are good choices?
Thanks for your help.
Beli
Hi,
In my project i want a report. In that report data is getting from more than one data sources(systems). While creating data source view i used named query for both primary and secondary data source. But at the time of crating "Report Model" i am getting below error.
An error occurred while executing a command.
Message: Invalid object name 'Table2'.
Command:
SELECT COUNT(*) FROM (SELECT SerialNum, ModelNum AS com_model
FROM Table2) t
Is there any way to create a report with multiple data sources?
Hi all :)
I'm wondering if SSIS will be the solution to the problem I'm working on.
Some of our customers give us an Excel sheet with data they want to insert or update in the database.
I've created a package that will take an Excel sheet, do some data conversion so the data types match up and after that I use a Slowly Changing Data component to create the insert/update commands.
This works great. If a customer adds a new row to the Excel sheet or updates an existing row changes are nicely reflected in the database.
But now I€™ve got the following problem. The column names and the order of the columns in the Excel sheet are not standard and in the future it could happen a customer doesn't even use an Excel sheet but something totally different.
Can I use SSIS for this? Is it possible to let the user set the mappings trough some sort of user interface? I€™ve looked at programmatically creating the package but I€™ve got to say that€™s quit hard to do€¦ It would be easier to write the whole thing myself than to create the package trough code ;)
If not I thought about transforming the data in code before I pass it on to the SSIS package in something like XML. That way I can use standard column names and data types.
So how should I solve this problem? Use SSIS or not?
Thnx :)
Wouter de Kort
Hi i have data on a Server in a different database which i like to access from within my ssis job.
I just need to look up information from one table on this database so i can references it. Is there a way of doing this is SSIS. Rather then me having to load the data from one database to another as the data may change.
i tried having 2 sources of data feed into a look up but that does not work..
Hi there,
On my home page I have several different folders to reports which require different data sources. the problem is that within these folders there are multiple copies of the same datasource. is it possible to store all of the datasources in one folder, one location? it would certainly be easier when changes to usernames and passwords need to be modified!
Thanks,
Rhonda
I searched and read about Data Sources and I'm seeing that there is no advantage in using it, which is what I found from playing around with it.
I expected that you would set a global connection in Data Sources and somehow link this to the things in your Connection Manager, giving you one place to switch from one environment to another. But reading the discussions here and playing around with it, this is not the case.
So, why is it there?
Next question.... another thing I gathered so far is something called "Configurations" that will do what I was describing above. Where do I do this?
Hi,
how can i use var for Data Sources ,
my project have to be suitable for the QA system and the production system and i want to connect them by var or something else.
if you have another idea about this subject i'll happy to read.
thanks,
gil.
I'm trying to combine two reports I've created into a form letter. The goal is to have a letter that indicates the students maximum UBSCT score for Math, Reading and Writing. Also in the letter we want to include the student's total number of credits awarded and overall GPA. I not sure if I need to try and combined the two queries or use two different data sources in Reporting Services. I've tried creating one sql statement but the grouping are giving me fits. I fairly new to Reporting Services.
Report 1:
704 Dixie High 11 311880 Student_1 UBSCT Math 176
704 Dixie High 11 311880 Student_1 UBSCT Reading 182
704 Dixie High 11 311880 Student_1 UBSCT Writing 173
704 Dixie High 11 311881 Student_2 UBSCT Math 168
704 Dixie High 11 311881 Student_2 UBSCT Reading 172
704 Dixie High 11 311881 Student_2 UBSCT Writing 165
SELECT
track.schoolc as School_Code,
school.schname as School,
stustat.graden as Grade,
studemo.ident as Ident,
RTRIM(studemo.lastname) + ', ' + RTRIM(studemo.firstname) AS [Student],
stutscors1.testc as Test_Code,
left(zsubtest1.descript,20) as [Subject],
max(stutscors1.testscore) as Score
FROM
stutscors1 INNER JOIN
stutests1 ON stutscors1.ststuniq = stutests1.ststuniq INNER JOIN
studemo ON stutests1.suniq = studemo.suniq INNER JOIN
stustat ON studemo.stuuniq = stustat.stuuniq INNER JOIN
track ON stustat.trkuniq = track.trkuniq INNER JOIN
school ON track.schoolc = school.schoolc INNER JOIN
testdef1 ON stutests1.testuniq = testdef1.testuniq INNER JOIN
zsubtest1 ON stutscors1.subtestc = zsubtest1.subtestc and stutscors1.testc = zsubtest1.testc
WHERE
stutscors1.testscore <> ' ' and
stutscors1.testscore <> '0' and
school.schname = 'Dixie High'and
stutscors1.testc = 'UBSCT' and
stustat.graden = 11
GROUP BY
track.schoolc,
school.schname,
studemo.ident,
RTRIM(studemo.lastname) + ', ' + RTRIM(studemo.firstname),
stustat.graden,
stutscors1.testc,
zsubtest1.descript
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Report 2:
704 Dixie High 11 Student_1 311880 23.2500 23.2500 87.50300000 3.763569
704 Dixie High 11 Student_2 311881 20.2500 20.2500 76.84300000 3.794716
select
stugrp_active.schoolc as School_Code,
school.schname as School,
stugrp_active.graden as Grade,
rtrim(stugrp_active.lastname) + ', ' + rtrim(stugrp_active.firstname) as Student,
trnscrpt.suniq as Ident,
sum(trnscrpt.gpacratt) as CreditAtt,
sum(trnscrpt.gradcrawd) as CreditAwd,
round(sum(case when Trnscrpt.GpaCrAtt is null then 0 else Trnscrpt.GpaCrAtt end * gpamarks.gpavallvl0),3) AS TrmGpaPts,
(round(sum(case when Trnscrpt.GpaCrAtt is null then 0 else Trnscrpt.GpaCrAtt end * gpamarks.gpavallvl0),3))/(sum(trnscrpt.gradcrawd)) as GPA
from
dbo.trnscrpt
inner join dbo.stugrp_active on (trnscrpt.suniq = stugrp_active.suniq) INNER JOIN school ON stugrp_active.schoolc = school.schoolc INNER JOIN
gpamarks ON trnscrpt.marksetc1 = gpamarks.marksetc AND trnscrpt.markawd1 = gpamarks.mark
where
school.schname = 'Dixie High' and
stugrp_active.graden = 11 and
trnscrpt.graden >= 9
group by
stugrp_active.schoolc,
school.schname,
stugrp_active.graden,
rtrim(stugrp_active.lastname) + ', ' + rtrim(stugrp_active.firstname),
trnscrpt.suniq
Hi guys,
I manage to get the SSIS working. Now I would need to do these tasks.
I first want to get data from 2 different sql servers. What would be the best method to accomplish this? Both are in Sql Server 2005.
Secondly I want to make sure if any of the servers couldn't be found on the network or in any case the getting data task failed for any one of them the package won't continue and an email should be send to an email address.
Thirdly If everything is ok then I should combine both and generate one sequence no for them and save them on to another location and then generate a file with modified values.
Can anyone help me regarding these tasks?
Thank you
Gemma
In brief, here is my quandary… I have a GridView on a page with some radio buttons, a couple of check boxes, some drop downs etc. And depending on what the user selects the Grid View needs to show different columns from the database…
The easiest way I have found to do this is to have a separate Data Object for each “view�, i.e. each variation of the checkboxes and radio buttons (which determine which dropdowns to use for the variables) and then bind the GridView to the specific Data Source at runtime…
It seemed like a good idea at the time, but now I have over 7 different data connections cluttering up the design view, and more to come and I feel like I am missing a better way to achieve the same results…
Does anyone have some advice for a major novice?
Here’s the beginning of a large set of nested ifs, if this is the way it’s done that’s fine too, I’ll just keep creating data sources, I just get the feeling there must be an easier way to do this..
protected void Button1_Click1(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
if (RadioButtonList1.SelectedValue == "Vendor") {
if (CheckBox1.Checked == true) {
GridView2.DataSourceID = "ObjectDataSource4";
GridView2.DataBind();
TextBox1.Text = "Search";
} else {
GridView2.DataSourceID = "ObjectDataSource1";
GridView2.DataBind();
TextBox1.Text = "Search";
}
} else if (RadioButtonList1.SelectedValue == "Store Number")
{ GridView2.DataSourceID = "ObjectDataSource2";
GridView2.DataBind();}
else {
GridView2.DataSourceID = "ObjectDataSource3";
GridView2.DataBind();
TextBox1.Text = "Search";
}
}
Any advice for a major novice would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!
I'm just wondering if it is bad programming practice to have many data sources on one page. I need a "Matrix" type of page that grabs data from many tables and so far I have 5 data sources. Is this common or is there something I should be doing to make it more efficient?
View 1 Replies View RelatedIs it possible to create a recordset from two different datasources?
Such as
SELECT * FROM DataSource1.TableName WHERE ColumnName IN (SELECT Column FROM Datasource2.TableName)
Thanks.
Is it possible to create a recordset from two different datasources?
Such as
SELECT * FROM DataSource1.TableName WHERE ColumnName IN (SELECT Column FROM Datasource2.TableName)
Thanks.