I currently have a flatfile with a seperate COBOL copybook. I need to be able to import all of it correctly into a db in mssql. Are there any *free programs that will turn the flatfile into some form for insertion into the db? What about csv format into the db?
View 14 RepliesHello again,
As a beginner I would like to replace records in a Table with Records from a Flatfile.
ILet's say, I got a custnum from the Flatfile and I like to replace the whole record of custnum (Primary Key) in a Table.
Can someone give me a hint how to do?
I'm looking forward to an early answer.
Regards
Chaepp
What is the true difference between FlatFile and File in terms of ConnectionManagerType? If FlatFile is just a subset, why does SSIS architechture need it? What is the reasoning behind?
View 1 Replies View RelatedThe CreatePackage sample provided with SQL Server programmatically creates a package that has a source type of OLEDB to a flat file destination. I am building exactly the opposite, source=flatfile, destination=SQL Server. I expect that will be a more common scenario is using SSIS.
The problem I have is populating the source columns in the FlatFileSource connection manager programmatically. I know it can be done because it happens when you build a package in Visual Studio. What I'd like to know is how to do it programmatically in the object model. How can I interrogate the datasource through the connection manager to find out what columns it has? If I know, I can add the columns to the connection manager. My sample below does this, but it doesn't know the number of columns in the source so that value is hardcoded. I'm guessing there is a better way to do this than what I've got below.
How can I find the number of columns in my source so I can add the columns to the connection manager?
Thanks.
Private Sub AddColumnsToFlatFileConnectionManager()
Dim ff As wrap.IDTSConnectionManagerFlatFile90 = Nothing
For Each cm As ConnectionManager In _Package.Connections
If cm.Name.Equals(_ExternalConnectionID) Then
ff = TryCast(cm.InnerObject, wrap.IDTSConnectionManagerFlatFile90)
DtsConvert.ToConnectionManager90(cm)
End If
Next
If Not ff Is Nothing Then
Dim col As wrap.IDTSConnectionManagerFlatFileColumn90
Dim name As wrap.IDTSName90
Dim Min As Int32 = 0
Dim Max As Int32 = Min + 3 ' *** HARDCODED LIMIT ***
For cols As Integer = Min To Max
col = ff.Columns.Add()
If cols = Max Then
col.ColumnDelimiter = vbCrLf
Else
col.ColumnDelimiter = ","
End If
Dim width As Int32 = 50
Dim DataType As wrap.DataType = wrap.DataType.DT_STR
col.ColumnType = "Delimited"
col.DataType = DataType
col.MaximumWidth = width
col.DataPrecision = 0
col.DataScale = 0
col.ColumnWidth = width
name = TryCast(col, wrap.IDTSName90)
name.Name = "Column " & cols.ToString
Next
End If
End Sub
Hi,
Iam migration data from a table into a comma delimited flatfile,but i need to specify all the columns within [ " ] in the flatfile
for example
i have a column [Name] the values are John,Mani,Raghu.....
The flat file should be outputted as
"John"
"Mani"
"Raghu"
Is there anyway to do this.Pls help.
Thanks,
SVGP
Hi all,
my package has a lot of lookups of fact table fields against dimension tables.
i did a redirect row for each lookup error to a flat file.
i wanted to put all lookup mismatch on the same file, but i couldn't do it because there'll be error saying that
The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.
i don't think it's practical to have flat files for each lookups. how is this normally done? please help...
thanks!
This seems so obvious, but is causing me a lot of trouble:
The flat files input to my SSIS packages may contain an empty line between each row of data, or may be "continuous" without any extra empty lines. Here are small examples of the data I'm working with:
With the extra line:
"M","SFH","Single Family Mortgage Loans","Single Fam Mtg"
"M","MFH","Multifamily Mortgage Loans","Multi-Fam Mtg"
"R","MIX","Mixed/Various/Unknown","Mixed/Various"
Without the extra line:
"M","SFH","Single Family Mortgage Loans","Single Fam Mtg"
"M","MFH","Multifamily Mortgage Loans","Multi-Fam Mtg"
"R","MIX","Mixed/Various/Unknown","Mixed/Various"
Seems to me it should be possible to set up a single FlatFile connection to handle both these formats, but it's not easy.
I can easily manually edit the FlatFile connection and change the "RowDelimiter" to either "{CR}{LF}" or "{CR}{LF}{CR}{LF}" and the package runs against the corresponding flat file.
However, when I try to use an expression (@[User::StrRowDelimiter]) to set the RowDelimiter to the value of a package variable, the expression is completely ignored.
I can only change the RowDelimiter property on the FlatFile connection by manually opening the editor on the connection and changing it to match the incoming file.
Why isn't this connection seeing the expression I've set up for its RowDelimiter property?
Thanks for any help!
Hi,
I have a Conditional Split to FlatFile Destination.
How can I put the result, that goes in the FlatFile Destination, in a variable also (like in Recordset Destination).
Do I have to runs this thing twise (and put the first time in FlatFile Destination and the second time in Recordset Destination)?
Thank you.
I am importing a flatfile and cannot seem to deal with an issue that seems quite simple.
The files have a header row with column names and those rows start with '#'
However sometimes this header row will also be present in the middle of the file.
The Source tries to parse this row and fails
Is there any way to tell the flafile source to skip rows that start with a particular character like comment rows?
My DTS package, deployed and run from the file system, works just fine for me, but fails when someone else runs it. The only explicit error from the dtexec command is:
View 11 Replies View RelatedI am running an ISQL script every day and automatically emailing the output of a query as the body of an email, to a group of people. ISQL executes a SQL file which selects some data and the output of the ISQL is sent to a *.txt file.
The Issue is that the output of the query wraps in the flatfile. It seems that the *.txt file wraps at character 76.
Does anyone have an Idea how to prevent query output data from wrapping in the flatfile?
-thanks
-tom
Hello Folks,
Im trying to use Integrations services to import a file on a daily basis.
My flatfile has to different type of rows that comes from an transaction system, it looks like this:
132,1/1/2008,00,123654,text,1,123.00
132,1/1/2008,00,123652,text,1,23.00
132,1/1/2008,00,123655,text,1,3.00
123,1/1/1/2008,01,149.00
1125,1/1/2008,00,123654,text,1,123.00
1125,1/1/2008,00,123652,text,1,23.00
1125,1/1/2008,00,123655,text,1,3.00
1125,1/1/1/2008,01,149.00;Cash;EUR;01;12
After the date you can see that there is two digits number either 00 or 01. The rows also have a different lengthts.
When ever that columns contains 00 the line should be inserted to a special text file, if the columns contains 01 it should to another file.
How can I solve this in a good way?
One of the problems I have is that when I try to import the rows the flat file connections indicates(erros message) that I have partial row in the file which is true since the the rows with the columns content 01 have more fields then the other.
Thanks for you help.
holtis
Why does the raw file have an option for a variable path and the flat file destination does not? Not having this feature makes it impossible to work with variable environments. Please add this option to the Flatfile Destination.
View 5 Replies View RelatedHi:
Am trying to write SQL data to multiple flat files.
I use a For Each loop,
store field Values in variables
construct a fileName(variable as expression) for each row,
then create a text file for each row in resultset, (Filesystem task)
and then try to fill each file from a SQL Source to a Flatfile Destination.
Destination.connectionString=Filename.
Works ok for creation of Text Files, so I know my fileName variable is getting evaluated for each iteration.
But the flat file connection manager is stuck and evaluates to the static part of my expression.
What am I doing wrong?
TIA
Kar
We are storing incoming flatfiles into a text field in a table and then we are processing this table on a regular basis. What I would like to do is to get this flatfile from the textfield and populate a flatfile source with it, but so far I have only been able to do that with XML files as there are no option for doing that with the flatfile source. Using the disk as a temporary storage for the flatfile is prohibited.
Does anyone have any suggestions on how to solve this?
The first is the
With every keystroke in the flat file connection manager editor on the filename
the bids system goes out and trys to find the file
this is stupidly slow when using \sqldevelopc$zipcode.txt
The second is creating an import from a flat file to database file using data flow task
when you run the task I get the following error trying to open a c:demozipcode.txt file
[AdventureWorks [30]] Error: SSIS Error Code DTS_E_OLEDBERROR. An OLE DB error has occurred. Error code: 0x80040E14. An OLE DB record is available. Source: "Microsoft SQL Native Client" Hresult: 0x80040E14 Description: "Could not bulk load because SSIS file mapping object 'GlobalDTSQLIMPORT ' could not be opened. Operating system error code 2(The system cannot find the file specified.). Make sure you are accessing a local server via Windows security.".
I can see there is an issue with BIDS that when you developing it is using the local drive C drive and running it using the servers C drive
I have tried unc paths also and it doesnt work either
Everything in the connection looks fine, i can see the data, the columns etc
I can get this to work using bulk load task and the exact same connection, but not in the data flow task
Hi,
I have a flatfile source. I want to extract a specific row... let say row 2. how do i retrieve that row from the list of rows in my flat file?
thanks,
Cherriesh
Hello Folks,
Im trying to use Integrations services to import a file on a daily basis.
My flatfile has to different type of rows that comes from an transaction system, it looks like this:
132,1/1/2008,00,123654,text,1,123.00
132,1/1/2008,00,123652,text,1,23.00
132,1/1/2008,00,123655,text,1,3.00
123,1/1/1/2008,01,149.00
1125,1/1/2008,00,123654,text,1,123.00
1125,1/1/2008,00,123652,text,1,23.00
1125,1/1/2008,00,123655,text,1,3.00
1125,1/1/1/2008,01,149.00;Cash;EUR;01;12
After the date you can see that there is two digits number either 00 or 01. The rows also have a different lengthts.
When ever that columns contains 00 the line should be inserted to a special text file, if the columns contains 01 it should to another file.
How can I solve this in a good way?
One of the problems I have is that when I try to import the rows the flat file connections indicates(erros message) that I have partial row in the file which is true since the the rows with the columns content 01 have more fields then the other.
Thanks for you help.
holtis
Hi,
iam bringing an output in flatfile which is truncating after 255 characters,some of the data is vanishing because of this.can anyone pls help.
pls advice.
Regards,
sg
Hello all
I got a Problem when I try to store Data from a Flatfile to a DB.
The following Error appears in the Progress Control:
An OLE DB record is available. Source: "Microsoft SQL Native Client" Hresult: 0x80004005 Description: "Violation of PRIMARY KEY constraint 'PK_Products_1'. Cannot insert duplicate key in object 'dbo.Products'.".
I have a Flat File Source, and would like to store the needed records in a DB.
In Column 0 in the Flatfile I have multiple Entries with equal Values.
In the DB this Column is set as Primary Key and can only have one Record with the same Value in this Column.
How can I read out (or store) only one Record with the same Value from the Flatfile to store it in the DB?
How can I check if there is a Record from the Flatfile in the DB with the same value in the Primary Key?
How can I change any of the remaining Columns with different Values in the DB to match with the Flatfile?
Thanks in advance for any answer
Chaepp
I have CSV file as source for SSIS package every time the filename will be changing like trd_1990M1_1990M12.csv,trd_1991M1_1991M12.csv , trd_1992M1_1992M12.csv etc.,
so it will vary as per user selection . i need to run the same SSIS package to execute the different file name with the same structure.
Please let me know the solution for that how to pass the file name dynamically to SSIS package.
Hi i am trying to do a straight forward load from a Flatfile source , i have defined the columns according to the lenghts defined in the Data Dictionary Provided but when i am trying to run the Task i am encounterring this error
The column data for column "Column 20" overflowed the disk I/O buffer.
I tried to add another column 21 at the end and truncate or leave that column unmapped to destination but the same problem occurs for column 21 what should i do to over come this .
In case of Bad Data how to clean up the source.. Please help me with this
We have a BIG problem that has been occurring for quite sometime. We have a RAGGED-RIGHT FFS (FlatFileSource) component which receives a FF and then transforms to XML. We define 10 FIELDS with the last field as {CRLF} per ragged right style. Simple right? The source file is sent to us from multiple separate groups, some of which don€™t use the last two fields and have early line termination, so they basically are not there. The problem is that when we define X amount of fields in SSIS, it expects X amount of fields to be there. So when we receive the source file that doesn€™t contain last two fields, SSIS tries to read in the next line, and in most cases successfully places the fields from the next line into the missing fields. Now what we end up with is a source file with 10 rows, but only half successfully transformed, with every other row fitted into the last two XML fields. SSIS completely ignores the {CRLF} until those specific numbers of spaces/fields have been met €“ even if it has to go onto the next line to get them. This seems horribly wrong to me. I would think that at the very least there should be some type of validation that prevents it from grabbing the next line. I thought that is what fixed-length SSIS style is for, and ragged right for allowing to parse multiple rows. We could enforce all clients to produce X char spaces (and we do), but there can be cases in any aspect where a file could get accidentally sent over with a shortened row. I have heard from certain individuals that SSIS adapter wasn€™t designed with this in mind. Is this true, I am to believe that this would still get parsed without throwing any errors and potentially damage the ERP system it is going into? If this is the case then I feel extremely disheartened about SSIS €“ especially with all of the great advancements it has made.
We desperately need a workaround or at the very least some way to validate that a new row {CRLF} isn€™t getting picked up in the first row of the flat file connection. Please can someone help ASAP!?
Any one knows for sure if there is any limit on the number of characters/letters that a FLATFILE connection manager can maximally have?
Is the following name (36 letters) valid ?
Code Snippet
<DTS:Property DTS:Name="ObjectName">Load Ready Output Connection Manager</DTS:Property>
In one of my package, i m getting this error:Error 128 Validation error. ST-MDR-NYMEXSPAN Connection manager "FF_errorEvent": The file name "fdyrs0 1MktDataWMDEVDevNymexSpanProcessingAreaAuditFilePackageErrorLog.csv" specified in the connection was not valid.  ST-MDR NYMEXSPAN_ Enhan.dtsx 0 0 ..But in connection i have provided the valid file. Please see the screenshot below. After providing the valid file also, this connection manager is saying "A valid file name must be selected". I deleted the connection and tried to create a new connection again but still i m getting this error. Then i tried creating connection on my local folder then it worked fine. why in the shared path i am getting this error? and what should i do to overcome it.
1) IÂ have access to this shared folder.
2) I have saved this connection in a variable.
3) Run64BitRuntime is set to false.
I'm trying to Move data from a FlatFile Source to an SQL destination
row delimiter {LF}
Column Delimiter is "comma"
Number of columns in each row : say 7
Example Rows
Example 1:
1,1,1,1,1,1,1{LF}2,2,2,2,2,2,2{LF}3,3,3,3,3,3,3{LF}4,4,4,4,4,4,4{LF}
Example 2:
1,1,1,1{LF}2,2,2,2,2,2,2{LF}3,3,3,3{LF}4,4{LF}
There is no problem parsing Example 1:
With Example 2.
The Old DTS used to parse fine..when it encounters a row delimiter it fills the rest of the columns with null...
While the New SSIS flat File source is following column count in each row...and is considering " 1{LF}2" as column item rather than a row delimiter...
Is there any way around it or is it a bug?
Thanks for any help in advance
How many result-rows does mssql return should be used asynchronous method to use mssql cursor, can get the best performance in any time in any result offset?
i want to make the cursor fast in any time whatever how many results returned
I am wanting to creating a column based on a value in a flatfile, and insert that value into the destination table...
I have a flatfile and a oledb destination, I dropped a script component on the dataflow tab, and I am wanting to take an existing field and create a for lack of a better word, "CODE" field based on that value. How would I accomplish this?
Example--- where description = Test1 code = 1, Test2 code = 2, and same thing for Test3
Description code
Test1 1
Test2 2
Test3 3
I have to import data from a flatfile into our datawarehouse. The supplier of the flat file isn't able to give me a delta, he just gives me a flat files with all the changes on a certain table.
So for instance when a row in a table is updated 3 times, I get 3 rows in my flatfile with the 3 updates and I only need the last one.
The determine wich record is updated I need to combine 6 columns to be sure if I'm looking at the right row in the source database.
Is their a way to accomplish this?
I'm pretty new to those advanced SSIS things and I tried to look for a way to do it with conditional splits etc...
But honestly, I don't have a clue where to start.
Any help is appreciated.
Regards
Zekske
Hi,
i was planning to create a database migration tool ..
its a certain database of a DMS (document management system) to
another DMS (two different DMS)... from DMS using msde 2000 server .. and tranfer to a DMS using a postgre sql or mssql .. depends ..
they have different table structures and names . . :D
i was thing of what language shall i use.. or what language is the best to work on this kind of project :)
hoping for your kind help guys. thanks :)
br
Frozenice
Hello, I wanted to do the following.
Copy a full directory from source to destination (Done)
then for each file on the destination directory,it must process that file and insert rows on the table.
So I created a foreach loop, and created a varriable aclled CURRENTFILENAME, and assigned it into the foreachloop to index 0.
Inside the foreachloop I created a dataflow task, in the dataflow task I dragged a flat file source and an oledb destination, but I noticed that the flat file source requires flat file manager, and the flat file manager requires a unique FILE NAME. I cant put this c:copia*.txt.
I took a loot at flat file source properties and it has associated the flat file manager, but I can not assign the filename to the variable from the foreach.
Any ideas please
hi all,
maybe this is not a serious problem, but I tried for days to come toi a solution without success.
My Problem:
I have have several flatfile sources I need to import into a sql-server 2005 DB.
It is very important for me to have the original line number from inside the source file for each record. The rowcount transform doesn't fit in for this task, because it accumulates all rows until the end of the dataflow.
I tried script components and it works fine if i assume there are no errors in my source. then I simply could declare a local variable and count it up and add a custom collumn to my output. But for errors in my source this won't work, because a second script component won't know the actual value of a package level variable, which i use to store the value, because i am only allowed to access this variable in the post execujte method of the script.
How can I achieve my goal? Please help me...
Thanks in advance .. Bernd
I'm working in VS 2010 for SSIS 2012. I have a project whose deployment is done via project deployment to SSISDB. I've got a local flatfile connection manager within one of its packages. When I deploy I'm unable to override the file name property in either package configuration or job step configuration on the SQL Server. If the flatfile connection were at the project level, I could. Not sure of the rationale for this or maybe I'm doing something wrong.
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