I can't find anything on how to get to a global variable in a script component in the dataflow. I can get to it in a script task with no problem by using dts.variables but i doesn't appear you can do the dts variables in the script component.
I did add it to the readwrite variable list but I haven't been able to access it.
I have a set of comma separated variables in a Script Component list. I want to access them in Script code and use them to build string in the code.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI am writing a custom dataflow transformation component and I need to get the name of the preceeding component.
I have been trying to find a way to get a reference to the Package object, MainPipe object or IDTSPath90 object (connecting to the IDTSInput90 of my component) from my component because I think from there I can get to the information I want.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
TIA . . . Ed
Hello,
In the properties for a DTS package, I have a string variable. I need to execute an update statement based on this variable. I was going to use Execute SQL, but I didn't know now to get a value from the variables section.
I store the value there because I will be using dtsrun or the DTS library to execute the package, which I can change this value upon execution. How do I execute an update based on the value?
Brian
Have anyone encountered a problem with DTS Global variables. What I am trying to do is keep a counter in a global variable. It works fine when I run the job manually but if I schedule the job it doesn't increment the counter. Any ideas?
Thanks in advance!
Nancy
cani define a global time in sql server2000, which all tables in DIFFERENT databases can use. I need this in order to INNER JOIN all tables in SAME/DIFFERENT DBs on basis of this datetime field.
View 7 Replies View RelatedHi,
Is there a way to declare a persistent global variable in SQL Server?
I'd like my stored procs to fetch data in a different source depending on a debug (or development) variable.
For example, I'd like to be able to set a variable to either 0 or 1 (true or false) and have a static SP defined as:
IF @MYVARIABLE = 1
SELECT * FROM Openquery(Server1, 'SELECT * FROM Table1")
ELSE
SELECT * FROM Openquery(Server2, 'SELECT * FROM Table2')
What do you think? Since these SPs should be called a lot, I don't want to store the info in a table, I want it as a global variableso it will be as fast as possible.
Any other suggestions are also welcomed.
Thanks,
Skip.
Using SQL2000, I have a DTS that takes data from MySQL to sqlserver, thecatch is I want to specify a specific range of dates.How to use a global variable? At the moment I manually changes the dates andjobs run on a daily basis.sample sql statement from Mysql connection:select *from Table1where date between '1/1/2004' and '6/30/2004'CHANGE TO:select *from Table1where date between @fromdate and @todateTIABob
View 1 Replies View RelatedThis is trivial I'm sure but I'll be dogged if I can find someone who mentions how to do it. I am attempting to develop a Data Flow Transformation that appends a new column (a string value) into the current stream.
I have found plenty of references on how to replace an existing column but I'd really like to just add my new column in there. It doesn't need to be configurable, it can be a static column name. I'll take a solution that allows the column name to be set at design time, don't get me wrong but the magic I'm looking for is how to implement a new column in a stream.
Yes, I am well aware of the derived column task but I will be replacing a few hundred instances and I'd much rather just drag an item onto the designer than to drag a derived column, double click it, type in the column name, set the expression and then set the datatype, etc.
Anyone spare a moment to enlighten me?
Pardon the lack of formatting, this BB doesn't play with Opera (I know, I'm a heretic)
using System;
using System.Collections;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
using Microsoft.SqlServer.Dts.Pipeline;
using Microsoft.SqlServer.Dts.Pipeline.Wrapper;
using Microsoft.SqlServer.Dts.Runtime.Wrapper;
using Microsoft.SqlServer.Dts.Runtime;
namespace Microsoft.Samples.SqlServer.Dts
{
[
DtsPipelineComponent
(
DisplayName = "Nii",
Description = "This is the component that says Nii.",
ComponentType = ComponentType.Transform
)
]
public class Nii : PipelineComponent
{
public override void ProcessInput(int inputID, PipelineBuffer buffer)
{
if (!buffer.EndOfRowset)
{
while (buffer.NextRow())
{
try
{
// do something here to
}
catch (Exception e)
{
ComponentMetaData.FireInformation(0, ComponentMetaData.Name, "There was an error on row " + buffer.CurrentRow.ToString() + ". The error is: " + e.Message + " : " + e.Source + " : " + e.StackTrace, "", 0, ref fireEventAgain);
}
}
}
}
}
Is there a way in SQL Server to setup Global Server Variables or Constants
We are working with an Off the Shelf Constituent Management application based on SQL Server. We can only read from the App's DB. So we setup another DB to run SP to access the data in the main DB. One problem we have is that there codes that the app DB uses that we need to reference as criteria in our SP. Example: Code for a phone type of email is 731. So if we want to pull email addresses we need to Select where PhoneType = 731. We found out that each time the main db is rebuilt those codes change. That means finding everytime we used that code and changing it.
It would be great to be able to set a global variable and use it anytime that code is needed.
Any ideas.
A short explanation: I have 4 locations that will import from text files.
These text files will need to be 'stamped' with a location_id. I'd like to pass the location_id to the dts package via a VB program. The reason for the VB program is I'd like to keep users from the Enterprise Manager. Is this possible to accomplish? Thanks for your help.
I am executing:
--------------------------------
DECLARE @x AS int
SET @lcQuery = 'UPDATE ... WHERE .... ' + ' SET @x = @@ROWCOUNT'
EXEC (@lcQuery)
PRINT @x
--------------------------------
@x does NOT return a value, because it is "local" to the lcQuery execution. As a matter of fact, to execute it, I have to write:
SET @lcQuery = 'DECLARE @x AS int ' +
'UPDATE ... WHERE .... ' +
'SET @x = @@ROWCOUNT'
EXEC (@lcQuery)
How can I pass the variable @x to the progam from within EXEC (@lcQuery)?
How does EXEC (@lcQuery) execute? In a different space?
Thank you.
As a newcomer to SQL2000, I need to create a DTS Global Variable that will import a file daily automatically. I've got the DTS working great, but I have to manually execute it every day. The log file name Accounting 02-22-2002.csv changes by the date every day. So the next record set would be Accounting 02-23-2002.csv and so on. Any ideas on how to create this? I think some VBScript is necessary from what I understand. I'm looking at the function DATEADD(d, 1, date).
View 1 Replies View RelatedWe're using SQL Server 2000. I have a table with a couple fields I'd like to automatically updatre with a atrigger. One of the fields needs to log the current time the record has been modified. The other field needs to log the current user ID.Storing the current time is easy with UPDATE and GETDATE(), but obtaining the current user from my ASP.NET code isnt as pretty as I would have to pass in the user ID from my backend code into the server, perhaps as a stored procedure variable that will manually update the table with the new ID. I was hoping to perhaps set some global variable of the user ID for the current connection to the dbase so that once the trigger is made, it feeds off this connection-level global variable to plug in the needed User ID for the record.So for instance:SET @@MyCurrentUserID = 4; UPDATE MyTable SET myStuff='games';The MyTable trigger will be initiated and the LastModified field of MyTable will be auto update with the current datetime, but also the LastModifiedUser field of MyTable will be update with MyCurrentUserID.Is this possible with SQL Server 2000 for Windows 2K3?Tx
View 7 Replies View RelatedI have a dts package that has 4 global variables. Migrated the package to SSIS thru the wizard. But I need to fix the global variable in order to work.
This global variable is the path where the txt file is residing after you run the DTS package.
I want o know how could I create the global variable in SSIS?
Hi
I have created two SSIS packages one is development and another is test. I used near about 15 global variables in my test SSIS package.Both development and test package working on transfering data from database and put into text files now i want to implement all these variables into development package
how i will do that wheather i have to create all these variables in development package also or there is way to transfer these variables from one package to another
Please help me out
Before in DTS, I used to using ActiveX scripts to setup simple Global Variables that would later be used by the package, let's say a give state or a date.
I'm completely lost how to do the same in SSIS, can someone give me a hand?
I'm not sure what component to use and how to read this variable.
Hello,I am porting a stored procedure from Oracle. It uses a variable thatremembers its previous values from each invocation. (It uses a PRAGMAREFERENCES clause for those who are familiar with Oracle.) In otherwords, the variable in a particular stored procedure acts as a globalvariable. So the each invocation of the stored procedure can see itslast value, instead of its initial default value.Is there something similar in SQLServer?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have a custom component that takes in unicode stream and converts it to ascii text. However I would like to make my default string length and code page editable in the standard GUI editor. Right now I can set the default to 1000 characters, but when I try to change it, it says "Property value is not valid"
Any ideas?
Thanks!
Hi,
I've created a stand alone custom dataflow component in VB and I need to set up the connection to the Input and Output components and instantiate it. The only way I've seen this done is to create an entire package and Task then use the TaskHost wrapper object to instantiate the Mainpipe (IDTSPipline90 interface) so that you can create the IDTSPath90 interface and setup the connection to the input and output components...
After all that, all that I would like to know is whether it is possible to instantiate the mainpipe interface without creating a package programmatically? I've seen something Darren Green put in an answer to a thread, about accessing the Mainpipe interface in the UI, to the effect that you can access it through IServiceProvider using the interface IDTSPipelineEnvironmentService - I think that's it... But I'd like to know if there is a more straightforward route to instantiating and accessing the Task or data flow directly?
Thanks in advance,
Will.
I have a flat file of records in csv format. I want ti create a dts that can be executed from asp.net using vb.net to load data from .csv file into sql server 2000 table.
Now what further i want that this DTS must have a parameter mapped to file name of .csv. so when i execute this dts from asp.net web application i will set the file path to this variable and then execute it on server.
So that meanz dts stays on server all it require before execution a new file path to load data from file that is already uploaded on server in a directory.
if any one have any idea to how to create such a dts and secondly how to execute in asp.net.
thanks in advance.
Hi,
what I basically want to do is to delete all records from all tables where the field loadnumber equals a certain value.
To do this I've defined the global variable 'DSLoadNumber' (integer) in a DTS package, and I want to use the stored procedure sp_msforeachtable in an Execute SQL Task.
This is the code in the Execute SQL Task:
sp_msforeachtable
@replacechar = '~',
@command1 = "delete from ~ where loadnumber = ?",
@whereand = " and name not in ('dtproperties', 'dsloadlog', 'FotoMediaProduct', 'ProductFF', 'ComStat', 'ProdStat')"
This code can be parsed without any problem, but the ? is not seen as a variable.
When I get the ? out of the quotes the code cannot be parsed any longer.
Finally I've written a cursor to the job which looks like this:
DECLARE @tablename varchar(35),
@loadnumber int
SELECT @loadnumber = ?
DECLARE delete_cursor CURSOR FOR
select name
from sysobjects
where type = 'U'
and name not in ('dtproperties', 'dsloadlog', 'FotoMediaProduct', 'ProductFF', 'ComStat', 'ProdStat')
OPEN delete_cursor
FETCH delete_cursor INTO @tablename
WHILE (@@fetch_status = 0)
BEGIN
exec('delete from ' + @tablename + ' where loadnumber = ' + @loadnumber)
FETCH NEXT FROM delete_cursor INTO @tablename
END
CLOSE delete_cursor
DEALLOCATE delete_cursor
But this code doesn't compile either...
Any suggestions on how to get the code working within DTS?
Stef
Hi,
I am trying to export data from SQL7 to Access using a DTS package. I want to use the global variables within the package in sql statements.
How can I do that?
I have 2 global variables set: @DID & @Rowid
When tranfering data I used the sql statement to get the data from SQL7:
Select * from Tablex where ColumnX=@DID AND ColumnY > @rowid
but when I do that I get an error: You must declare the variable @DID
Why is that, if I declared it in the global variables section????
TIA.
Hi all
I have a DTS package that users of the database can run which basically acts like a 'live update' (as the database is based on a values produced from another system) and it takes roughly 30 or so seconds to run...
The dts package is not going to have a particularly large hit rate but i am interested in knowing what will happen if a user (user 1) attempts to run the package when it is in already in use by another user (user 2) ?
The dts package is from a sp using the dtsrun utility (passes in global variables).
I know that a second DTS will start before the first has finished but what i am not sure about is what will happen to the Global Variables when the second DTS package starts - i.e. will starting a second instance of the package with different variables have an effect on the first DTS's global variables while it is running?
I hope the answer is "No Tom, it work fine!"
Hey all,
I have a stored procedure, which need one variable as parameter. I am trying to call this stored procedure from my DTS Task and my parameter is defined as the Global Variable in DTS. here is the SP call within my DTS Task
declare @id int
select @id = DTSGlobalVariables('ClientId' ).value
exec sp_Update_DayPart @ClientId= @id
it gives me an error that DTSGlobalVariables function not defined. In this case how can i pass the value of Client Id which is my global variable to my SP.
Thanks in Advance
How do i access global variables in SSIS scripts ?
the Dts.variables("VarName").Value
should work but doesn't ?
do i need to reference the variable another way ?
Is it possible to create "global" (package scope) variables in runtime in SSIS packages? If yes, please give some examples.
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I'm trying to pass a global variable from a DTS package to the child packages that it calls using ExecutePackage tasks. I have selected the child's global variable on the Inner Global Variable tab and I have selected the parent's global variable on the Outer Global Variable tab. That doesn't work. Whatever I type into the Value column of the Inner Global Variable tab gets passed to the child package. How do I get the parent's global variable passed to the child package? Do I need to set the value on the Inner Global Variable tab to some special word to make it look for the parent's global variable? If I set it to nothing, nothing gets passed.
I have been able to make this work using an ActiveX Script task. I can set the Inner Global Variable value of the Task object to the parent's global variable value, but that's not the clean solution I'm looking for. There must be a simple way to do this because Microsoft's documentation brags about this feature, but they don't explain exactly how to do it.
Thanks
Steve
I am creating of may of dataflow component.
How make a property with list of predefined values?
Thanks in advance.
I am developing SSIS dataflow component.
Extended user interface is based on class IDtsComponentUI. Connection properties are created in both standart and my extended editor (Extended user interface). To set up designtime connection I use standart and my extended editor.
A main PipelineComponent component have two runtime connection:
IDTSRuntimeConnection90 adoConnection1 = ComponentMetaData.RuntimeConnectionCollection.New();
adoConnection1.Name = "Connection 1";
IDTSRuntimeConnection90 adoConnection2 = ComponentMetaData.RuntimeConnectionCollection.New();
adoConnection2.Name = "Connection 2";
----------------------------------------------------------------------
IDTSComponentMetaData90 dtsComponentMetaData; // current designtime component
....
In IDtsComponentUI I use follow fragment of code (for example):
_dtsComponentMetaData.RuntimeConnectionCollection[0].ConnectionManager =
Microsoft.SqlServer.Dts.Runtime.DtsConvert.ToConnectionManager90(_connections[0]);
to set up IDTSRuntimeConnection90[0] connection using connections from a current package. After this operation
the RuntimeConnectionCollection[0] is not null within the method PipelineComponent.AcquireConnections((object transaction)). ! But during next launching of Extended user interface the RuntimeConnectionCollection[0] is null within the method PipelineComponent.AcquireConnections((object transaction)).
Why do I lose the connection? And why the connections which set up in my Advanced editor do not save in standart editor?
Thanks in advance.
I€™m trying to populate a table with fields of date type [DT_DATE] using the Slow Changing Dimension Transformation component. When I add the date fields to the component it would not build the stream. The wizard fails and tells me the date fields are not of the same type. The fields in the destination table are of type €œdate€? and the input columns are of type [DT_DATE]. Am I missing something?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI'm playing (and trying to learn)...
I have an FTP task in a for each containter and am setting the RemotePath using an expression (works great). Thought I could use this to start learning some of the scripting funtionality in SSIS (in a script task) so found some code in this forum (thanks Original Posters!) and tried my hand at some coding... Intent was to create a variable and then dynamically overwrite the Expression in the FTP Task from the script (I know I don't need to do this, I just wanted to use it for learning purposes)....
I have a variable named varFTPDestPathFileName (string) and want to set it to the value of varFTPDestPath (string) + varFTPFileName (string). Note: all variables are scoped at the package level (could this be the problem?). I did not assign any of the variables to ReadOnly or ReadWrite on the Script Task Editor page (seems to me that doing this in the code is a whole lot cleaner [and self documenting] than on the Task Editor page)...
I keep getting the following error:
"The element cannot be found in a collection. This error happens when you try to retrieve an element from a collection on a container during execution of the package and the element is not there."
Here is the script:
Public Sub Main()
Dim vars As Variables
' Lock for Read/Write the variables we are going to use
Dts.VariableDispenser.LockForRead("User::varFTPDestPath")
Dts.VariableDispenser.LockForRead("User::varFTPFileName")
Dts.VariableDispenser.LockForWrite("User::varSourcePathFileName")
Dts.VariableDispenser.GetVariables(vars)
' Set Value of varSourcePathFileName <<--- ERROR OCCURS HERE
vars("User::varSourcePathFileName").Value = _
Dts.Variables("User::varFTPDestPath").Value.ToString + _
Dts.Variables("User::varFTPFileName").Value.ToString
vars.Unlock()
Dts.TaskResult = Dts.Results.Success
End Sub
I would also like to be able to loop through the Dts.VariableDispensor to see the contents of the variables and their values.
Somthing like
For each ??? in vars
msgbox(???.Value)
Next
One other question... Do we always have to preface the variable with "User::" or "System::", if so can you explain why?
Any help would be much appreciated....
I've been looking around but haven't yet found the syntax for usage of global variables in an SQL Task.
I've set the global variable Id (see code below):
if (select field from table where id = @[User::id]) is null
select top 1 1 as response from table
else select top 1 0 as response from table
My objective with it is to set another global variable (@isNull). Supposably, when the selection returns null, I should set the variable to null, I did it by using the selections and mapping the response to that variable (is ther a better way to do so?).
When I try to execute this, it says the variable has not been defined.
Here is the error:
Error: Must declare the variable '@'.
I've also tryed it withou the brackets and the User:: thing in the beggining, (@id directly) and here is the response:
Error: Must declare the variable '@id'.
How should I access the global variables in the SQL code?
(BTW, I've checked the field in execution time and it is set to 23, the correct Id, so the block that preceedes this one is working properly)
Thanks,