Flat File Data Source With Variable Number Of Delimited Columns
Feb 26, 2007
I am writing a package that will process delimited flat files that will come in one of a few different versions. Within each flat file, the number of delimited columns will be the same, but each version of the file has a different number of columns. I have tried configuring the flat file data source to expect the version with the largest number of columns, but it will then throw away rows that have less than this number of columns (warning: There is a partial row at the end of the file).
Is it possible to use a single flat file data source that will work with all of the different width files?
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Jun 23, 2015
I want to load flat files into a single table. But the flat files can have variable number of columns upto a maximum of 10 columns. The table in my database has 10 columns in it. So in case if I load a flat file having 6 columns then rest of the columns in the table will have nulls. I don't want to use script task for this as I am not good in writing C#code.
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Apr 26, 2008
I have a flat file source that is "ragged right," which is where you specify that positions 1 through 8 is a date or 9 through 20 is a string, etc.
I'm wondering if the Retain Nulls option does anything at all for ragged right files. The only way to indentify a missing value in this file format is with spaces, and SSIS doesn't equate spaces to a null using either fast or standard parsing, which means it is impossible to have nulls in a ragged right file.
I was looking to import a date column using fast parse where sometimes the date isn't specified, so you get an occasional " " as an entry. From what I can tell by experimentation, you cannot import directly into a date field using any method in SSIS if your source file is ragged right and some dates are blank, because empty strings cannot be inserted into date fields.
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Aug 3, 2005
I have a tab delimited flat file with say 60 columns. All columns can have null values. The file contains a blank tab for nulls.
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Mar 7, 2007
I am trying to make a SSIS package that will loop trough all files in a directory and load information from them.
I can do this with Raw File Sources since they allow me to use a variable name as the file path, but I cant seem to do the same with Flat File Sources. Is there a way to change the connection to a Flat File Source on each iteration of a loop? Actually, if this is possible with all types of file sources (like excel files) I would love to know about it too.
I was thinking about renaming the file through a script task but that does not seem like the most elegant solution so decided to see if some one here knows of a more proper way before I go that direction.
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Apr 14, 2014
I need find out the number of columns in flat file before i process that particular file.I have file name in @filename variable and file path is @filepath variable.But do not not that how i will check the column name in before i will process that file.
@filePath = C:DatabaseSourceFilesCAHCVSSourceFiles
And i am using for each loop container to read the file one by one and put the file name in @filename variable.and my file name like
Product_20120607060930.txt
Product_20130708060930.txt
[code]....
Now what i have to do is i need to make sure that ID,Name,City,County,Phone is there in flat file.if it is not there then i have to send mail to client saying that file is not valid.I need to also calculate the size of flat file.
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Jan 20, 2006
Please leave feedback for Microsoft regarding this problem at https://connect.microsoft.com/SQLServer/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=126493
Ok I'm sure it just me, SSIS has been great so far....but how can you import a straight CSV file with and uneven column count.
For example: (assume CR LF row delimiter)
The,Quick,Brown,Fox,Jumps
Hello,World
This,is,a,test
"Normally" I'd expect this
| Col1 |
| Col2 |
| Col3 |
| Col4 |
| Col5 |
The
Quick
Brown
Fox
Jumps
Hello
World
NULL
NULL
NULL
This
is
a
test
NULL
Ok but what we get is the row delimiter is ignored in preference for the column delimiter and the row delimiter gets sucked into the column and the next row starts to get layed down.
So we get
| Col1 |
| Col2 |
| Col3 |
| Col4 |
| Col5 |
The
Quick
Brown
Fox
Jumps
Hello
World{CR}{LF}This
is
a
test
I'm I not seeing a tick box somewhere that says "over here if you want to terminate a row on the row delimiter even if all columns aren't full and we'll pad NULLs in rest of the row columns which you can fix in the flow transformations"
I'm sure it's there.....help!
(By the way SSIS team, great job on the package love using it)
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Feb 13, 2007
Hi,
I am trying to create a program that transfers tables to flat files.
At this point in time, I have suceeded in created one that creates delimited files.
However, I am now trying to create fixed-width files as you can do with the SSIS designer, but programatically.
Is there a way to programatically determine the width of a column from the source table? I can not seem to find any kind of function or member that stores this information or allows me to retrieve it.
I know what I need to change in order to set a width for a column, but I just don't know how to find the width without just asking the user to provide one.
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Hi,
I am migrating one of my DTS package to SSIS.
My task is to read the filename from a database table and transfer the flat file data in to a table.
In SSIS,I am able to fetch the file name using a Data Reader Source; but how to pass this fileName parameter to Flat File Source ?
In DTS I have used ActiveX script to pass filename variable as flatfilecon.Source.
Any help ?
Thanks,
Ravi
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Dec 28, 2007
Warning: 0x80019002 at STAGING: The Execution method succeeded, but the number of errors raised (14) 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.
i got this error in my ssis package, where i'm trying to export flat file data into oledb destination,
can anyone help me to fix this issue!!!
What i've done?
1. Data Flow Task
a. po.txt flat file Source
b. Derived column
c. Oledb destination
a. pend.txt Flat file Source
b. Derived column
c. Oledb destination
a. invoice.txt Flat file Source
b. Derived column
c. Oledb destination
i did three flows in a single data flow task; among that one flow is running (po.txt flow) the rest are returned with Red Box filled error, and i capture the error and pasted there!!
the full error message is...... what i got in my output window is follows
i need some guidence to solve this issue, please let me know if you know about this stuff.
Information: 0x40016041 at STAGING: The package is attempting to configure from the XML file "staging.dtsConfig".
Warning: 0x80012014 at STAGING: The configuration file "staging.dtsConfig" cannot be found. Check the directory and file name.
Warning: 0x80012059 at STAGING: Failed to load at least one of the configuration entries for the package. Check configurations entries and previous warnings to see descriptions of which configuration failed.
SSIS package "STAGING.dtsx" starting.
Information: 0x4004300A at Staging Table Loading Data Flow Task, DTS.Pipeline: Validation phase is beginning.
Warning: 0x80047076 at Staging Table Loading Data Flow Task, DTS.Pipeline: The output column "Description" (3223) on output "Flat File Source Output" (3161) and component "Invoice Raised Flat File Source" (3160) is not subsequently used in the Data Flow task. Removing this unused output column can increase Data Flow task performance.
Warning: 0x80047076 at Staging Table Loading Data Flow Task, DTS.Pipeline: The output column "Project Number" (3080) on output "Flat File Source Output" (3063) and component "Pending Files Flat File Source" (3062) is not subsequently used in the Data Flow task. Removing this unused output column can increase Data Flow task performance.
Information: 0x4004300A at Staging Table Loading Data Flow Task, DTS.Pipeline: Validation phase is beginning.
Warning: 0x80047076 at Staging Table Loading Data Flow Task, DTS.Pipeline: The output column "Description" (3223) on output "Flat File Source Output" (3161) and component "Invoice Raised Flat File Source" (3160) is not subsequently used in the Data Flow task. Removing this unused output column can increase Data Flow task performance.
Warning: 0x80047076 at Staging Table Loading Data Flow Task, DTS.Pipeline: The output column "Project Number" (3080) on output "Flat File Source Output" (3063) and component "Pending Files Flat File Source" (3062) is not subsequently used in the Data Flow task. Removing this unused output column can increase Data Flow task performance.
Information: 0x40043006 at Staging Table Loading Data Flow Task, DTS.Pipeline: Prepare for Execute phase is beginning.
Information: 0x40043007 at Staging Table Loading Data Flow Task, DTS.Pipeline: Pre-Execute phase is beginning.
Information: 0x402090DC at Staging Table Loading Data Flow Task, PO Pending Flat File Source [2344]: The processing of file "C:Documents and Settingse402076Desktopitss flat filespo_pending.txt" has started.
Information: 0x402090DC at Staging Table Loading Data Flow Task, Pending Files Flat File Source [3062]: The processing of file "C:Documents and Settingse402076Desktopitss flat filespending bills.txt" has started.
Information: 0x402090DC at Staging Table Loading Data Flow Task, Invoice Raised Flat File Source [3160]: The processing of file "C:Documents and Settingse402076Desktopitss flat filesinvoices_raised.txt" has started.
Information: 0x4004300C at Staging Table Loading Data Flow Task, DTS.Pipeline: Execute phase is beginning.
Error: 0xC02020A1 at Staging Table Loading Data Flow Task, Invoice Raised Flat File Source [3160]: Data conversion failed. The data conversion for column "Description" returned status value 4 and status text "Text was truncated or one or more characters had no match in the target code page.".
Error: 0xC02020A1 at Staging Table Loading Data Flow Task, Pending Files Flat File Source [3062]: Data conversion failed. The data conversion for column "Event Description" returned status value 4 and status text "Text was truncated or one or more characters had no match in the target code page.".
Information: 0x402090DE at Staging Table Loading Data Flow Task, PO Pending Flat File Source [2344]: The total number of data rows processed for file "C:Documents and Settingse402076Desktopitss flat filespo_pending.txt" is 76.
Error: 0xC020902A at Staging Table Loading Data Flow Task, Pending Files Flat File Source [3062]: The "output column "Event Description" (3095)" failed because truncation occurred, and the truncation row disposition on "output column "Event Description" (3095)" specifies failure on truncation. A truncation error occurred on the specified object of the specified component.
Error: 0xC020902A at Staging Table Loading Data Flow Task, Invoice Raised Flat File Source [3160]: The "output column "Description" (3223)" failed because truncation occurred, and the truncation row disposition on "output column "Description" (3223)" specifies failure on truncation. A truncation error occurred on the specified object of the specified component.
Error: 0xC0202092 at Staging Table Loading Data Flow Task, Pending Files Flat File Source [3062]: An error occurred while processing file "C:Documents and Settingse402076Desktopitss flat filespending bills.txt" on data row 10.
Error: 0xC0202092 at Staging Table Loading Data Flow Task, Invoice Raised Flat File Source [3160]: An error occurred while processing file "C:Documents and Settingse402076Desktopitss flat filesinvoices_raised.txt" on data row 5.
Error: 0xC0047038 at Staging Table Loading Data Flow Task, DTS.Pipeline: The PrimeOutput method on component "Pending Files Flat File Source" (3062) returned error code 0xC0202092. 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: 0xC0047038 at Staging Table Loading Data Flow Task, DTS.Pipeline: The PrimeOutput method on component "Invoice Raised Flat File Source" (3160) returned error code 0xC0202092. 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 Staging Table Loading Data Flow Task, DTS.Pipeline: Thread "SourceThread2" has exited with error code 0xC0047038.
Error: 0xC0047039 at Staging Table Loading Data Flow Task, DTS.Pipeline: Thread "WorkThread0" received a shutdown signal and is terminating. The user requested a shutdown, or an error in another thread is causing the pipeline to shutdown.
Error: 0xC0047021 at Staging Table Loading Data Flow Task, DTS.Pipeline: Thread "WorkThread0" has exited with error code 0xC0047039.
Error: 0xC0047021 at Staging Table Loading Data Flow Task, DTS.Pipeline: Thread "SourceThread0" has exited with error code 0xC0047038.
Error: 0xC0047039 at Staging Table Loading Data Flow Task, DTS.Pipeline: Thread "WorkThread2" received a shutdown signal and is terminating. The user requested a shutdown, or an error in another thread is causing the pipeline to shutdown.
Error: 0xC0047021 at Staging Table Loading Data Flow Task, DTS.Pipeline: Thread "WorkThread2" has exited with error code 0xC0047039.
Information: 0x402090DF at Staging Table Loading Data Flow Task, PO_PENDING_STG OLE DB Destination [587]: The final commit for the data insertion has started.
Information: 0x402090E0 at Staging Table Loading Data Flow Task, PO_PENDING_STG OLE DB Destination [587]: The final commit for the data insertion has ended.
Information: 0x40043008 at Staging Table Loading Data Flow Task, DTS.Pipeline: Post Execute phase is beginning.
Information: 0x402090DF at Staging Table Loading Data Flow Task, INVOICE_STG OLE DB Destination [247]: The final commit for the data insertion has started.
Information: 0x402090E0 at Staging Table Loading Data Flow Task, INVOICE_STG OLE DB Destination [247]: The final commit for the data insertion has ended.
Information: 0x402090DF at Staging Table Loading Data Flow Task, OLE DB Destination [933]: The final commit for the data insertion has started.
Information: 0x402090E0 at Staging Table Loading Data Flow Task, OLE DB Destination [933]: The final commit for the data insertion has ended.
Information: 0x402090DD at Staging Table Loading Data Flow Task, PO Pending Flat File Source [2344]: The processing of file "C:Documents and Settingse402076Desktopitss flat filespo_pending.txt" has ended.
Information: 0x402090DD at Staging Table Loading Data Flow Task, Pending Files Flat File Source [3062]: The processing of file "C:Documents and Settingse402076Desktopitss flat filespending bills.txt" has ended.
Information: 0x402090DD at Staging Table Loading Data Flow Task, Invoice Raised Flat File Source [3160]: The processing of file "C:Documents and Settingse402076Desktopitss flat filesinvoices_raised.txt" has ended.
Information: 0x40043009 at Staging Table Loading Data Flow Task, DTS.Pipeline: Cleanup phase is beginning.
Information: 0x4004300B at Staging Table Loading Data Flow Task, DTS.Pipeline: "component "PO_PENDING_STG OLE DB Destination" (587)" wrote 75 rows.
Information: 0x4004300B at Staging Table Loading Data Flow Task, DTS.Pipeline: "component "OLE DB Destination" (933)" wrote 0 rows.
Information: 0x4004300B at Staging Table Loading Data Flow Task, DTS.Pipeline: "component "INVOICE_STG OLE DB Destination" (247)" wrote 0 rows.
Task failed: Staging Table Loading Data Flow Task
Warning: 0x80019002 at STAGING: The Execution method succeeded, but the number of errors raised (14) 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.
SSIS package "STAGING.dtsx" finished: Failure.
The program '[2532] STAGING.dtsx: DTS' has exited with code 0 (0x0).
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Hello everyone,
I have a package that extracts data from a Flat File. If any errors or truncation occur during the extraction of the input data, the package should fail. All fields that have erroneous values should be reported in the log file.
My Solution:
- I have created a Data Flow Task that contains a Flat File Source Adapter and a dummy destination.
- I have left the default "Error Output" configuration of the Flat File Source adapter, namely if a truncation or an error occur for a certain column, then the reaction is "Fail Component".
Problem:
This configuration gives me only the first erroneous column in the row being processed.
Question:
Is it possible to make the Flat File Source adapter continue parsing the current row before it fails? This way, I would be able to get all the erroneous columns in the row in one shot.
Thanks in advance...
Samar
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Hi, all,
I have this SSIS data flow ( Flat file to sql server) that I want to add a step to redirect any "bad" data instead of fail out.
I had the red arrow hocked up to a sql new table to dump the bad data, but the flow still failed.
Here is the first error, and I knew what was wrong. A description field in that line has pipe(|) character in it, which also happen to be the column delimiter in this case.
[Flat File Source [1]] Error: Data conversion failed. The data conversion for column "Column 22" returned status value 4 and status text "Text was truncated or one or more characters had no match in the target code page.".
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Can anyone help?
The code is:
Code Block
cast(convert(varchar(16),(substring( REPORT_RUN_DATE,1,2 ) + '/' + substring( REPORT_RUN_DATE,3,2 ) + '/' + substring( REPORT_RUN_DATE,5,10 )),1) as datetime) AS REPORT_RUN_DATE
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Example: My flat file has headers like Sln, Name, Age, Designation. While entering data they may miss age and type it as 1,aaa,Consultant,,
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Thanks in advance
Regards,
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Hi All,
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Earlier I had done the same Validation in Control Flow Task,but then the interface was reading the same file twice,once in the Control Flow Task and then again in the DataFlowTask.Which i should avoid now.
I hope many of you could have come across such a problem.
Any help on this will be appreciated.
cheers
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