How To Parameterize XML Data Source Connection String?
Sep 17, 2007
I need to create a report that lists other reports in the SSRS database. So I created an XML Data Source. But no matter what, I can't seem to parameterize this connection string so that it'll always point to whichever report server the report is deployed to. I know that I can change this data source once I've done deployment, however I don't want to have to change this whenever I change from SIT to UAT to Production. Is there a way to achieve this?
I created a SSIS package to extract data from a flat file source and load them into a table in a data base. After I created the package i checked it in to source control(perforce).
But the problem is once a month new flat source file comes and data should be updated. Once the new flat file comes, is there anyway that SSIS package can identify the path of the flat file and execute the package automatically? In Flat file source only the data will be changed. Not location or data type or anything. Can i use parameters to do that?
Hi all, I am able to set dynamic source for the text file(flat file) but i want to set the connection string (file name) to excel source dynamicaly. I have tryied lots of time by taking a variable in foreachloop container . Variable is itself able to pick the file name dynamicaly but whern i am tying to set connectionstring to excel source it gives error.
Steps that i have done: -
1) Drag foreachloop container 2) set directory,FileNameRetrieval,FileSpec 3) Made VariableMapping
4) Now drag a dataflow task in the foreachloop container 5) select excel source 6) When i am selecting varaible as connectin string from properties of excel connectin manager, i am getting this error : -
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Error at Package3 [Connection manager "Excel Connection Manager 2"]: An OLE DB error has occurred. Error code: 0x80040E4D.
Error at Data Flow Task [Excel Source [1]]: The AcquireConnection method call to the connection manager "Excel Connection Manager 2" failed with error code 0xC0202009.
I have set up a new connection as a connection from data source, but I cannot see how to use this connection to create my Data Flow Source. I have tried using an OLE DB connection, but this is painfully slow! The process of loading 10,000 rows takes 14 - 15 minutes. The same process in Access using SQL on a linked table via DSN takes 45 seconds.
Have I missed something in my set up of the OLE DB source / connection? Will a DSN source be faster?
I have a simple package, which reads a flat file source, does some transformation, and outputs to a flat file destination. The package runs as a SQL Agent job, so I have the flat file source and OLEDB connection ticked and configured on the data sources tab.
What I would like to do is get hold of the flat file source connection string property from inside the package at run time, and use it to set the flat file destination connection string using property expressions.
The easy option is to set the destination in the agent job, but I'd like to add a date/time stamp to the destination filename.
I created a SSIS package to import an excel spreadsheet into my data warehouse. When I run the package it runs fine. When I created a SQL Job to run the package I get the following error:
Option "Source=D:HelpDeskImportBook2.xls;Extended" is not valid. The command line parameters are invalid.
Now if I look at my source connection string in the job it looks like the following:
Today I was making a few reports. When I tested the reports in Visual Studio, they worked great: I got the expected result. But when I deployed the reports to our reportserver the problem started. When I click on the directory in which my reports are deployed, I got my 4 reports. Till now everything worked correct. But when I click on a report to view the results it went wrong. I got an error: "Cannot create a connection to data source 'Live'" (Live is the name of our data source).
We are using the Windows Logons and I am sure that I have all the rights on the server, I gave myself 'sysadmin' rights, so it should work. I also have tried it with all the roles assigned on my account, but then it still won't work.
When I modify the data source, and set it to another server en database it works. The datasource 'Live' exists on a x64 MsSQL server, en the other datasource is on a x86 MsSQL server. Maybe that is the problem?
I am using SSIS in SQL Server 2005 and want to have a query like this in my data flow task
Select a.* from abc as a inner join (Select max(b.id) as ID from xyz as b inner join pqr as c on b.id = c.id and b.id > ?) as t1 on t1.id = a.id
SSIS fails to detect the parameter (?) for the inner query and gives message.
" Parameters cannot be extracted from the SQL command. The provider might not help to parse parameter information from the command. In that case, use the "SQL command from variable" access mode, in which the entire SQL command is stored in a variable.", so assuming this is your problem, then you can workaround.
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The idea is to parameterize the inner query ,,, (so if the above query doesnt make sense ignore it )
I've created a SSIS Solution and have created Data Sources. I have two packages. One was created before the Data Sources, and one was created after. The package that was created after is using connections from the Data Sources. I want to change the package before the Data Soruces were created to use them, but when I right click in the Connection Managers pane "New Connection From Data Source.." is not an option.
When I set up a Flat File, Excel, or XML source, I have to specify the complete file name, in particular the folder where the file exists. I would like to specify the location dynamically, via a variable or property -- but how?
A data reader is using a connection manager to connect to an ODBC System DSN . A query in the SqlCommand property is provided. Data is being truncated in the only string column . The data type in data reader output-->external columns shows as Unicode string [DT_WSTR] Length 7.
The truncated output in a text file is the first 3 characters from left to right . Changing the column order has no effect.
A linked server was created in SQL Server Management Studio to test the ODBC System DSN using the following:
Data returned using "OPENQUERY" does not truncate the string column indicating that the ODBC Driver returns data as expected with sql 2005, but not with the Data Reader.
I am using sqljdbc41.jar to connect with MSSQL database, it is working fine on my local machine.Where as on the remote server, same class giving me error
Login failed for user '<domain><windows loginID>' My connection string is URL...
I am using sqljdbc41.jar and on 64 bit processor , I am using following command which included path for sqljdbc_auth.dll java -Djava.library.path= C: sqljdbc_4.1enuauthx64 TestDao and error is Login failed for user '<domain><windows loginID>' why it is not picking up username passed in connection string. I have 2 machines, one is local and other is remote. on both machine I login using my domain, it is working absolutely fine on local then why the error is coming on remote machine.Both the machines are identical.
RE: XML Data source .. Expression? Variable? Connection? Error: unable to read the XML data.
I want my XML Data source to be an expression as i will be looping through a directory of xml files.
I don't see the expression property or the connection property??
I tried setting the XMLData property to @[User::filename], but that results in:
Information: 0x40043006 at Load XML Files, DTS.Pipeline: Prepare for Execute phase is beginning. Error: 0xC02090D0 at Load XML Files, XML Source [108]: The component "XML Source" (108) was unable to read the XML data. Error: 0xC0047019 at Load XML Files, DTS.Pipeline: component "XML Source" (108) failed the prepare phase and returned error code 0xC02090D0. Information: 0x4004300B at Load XML Files, DTS.Pipeline: "component "OLE DB Destination" (341)" wrote 0 rows. Task failed: Load XML Files Information: 0xC002F30E at Bad, File System Task: File or directory "d:jcpxmlLoadjcp2.xml.bad" was deleted. Warning: 0x80019002 at Package: The Execution method succeeded, but the number of errors raised (2) 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 "Package.dtsx" finished: Failure. The program '[3312] Package.dtsx: DTS' has exited with code 0 (0x0).
Was wondering if there was a best practice minimum permissions for creating a SQL login to use when setting up a new shared Data source for SSRS report manager?
Something along the lines of them being a data read for the DB and permissions to update tempdb?
Would have thought it not advisable to have the login be able to update the main db...
I am able to use a custom script task to receive a MSMQ package and save the package contents to a flat file.
I can also use the bulk load task to push the flat file contents into a SQL table.
However, I would like to save the package contents to a variable (done, it works), and then pass that string variable to a data flow task for SQL upload. In other words, I don't see any reason to persist the msmq package contents to disk.
My question is: Which data flow source can I use that will accept a string variable? The string variable will then need to be processed with bulk load or an execute sql task.
Btw, the content of the string variable is a csv style string:
i've been reading some problems with excel source data being force as numeric type when there are string/numeric type in the data, but adding IMEX=1 to the extended properties will fix this problem...this is true but not in my case...
say my excel file have about 40 rows..if row 1-39 in column A are all NULL and row 40 has a string in it, the string in row 40 will not be converted and the excel source is forcing this column A data type to be numeric..having IMEX=1 in there does not work..however..if i add a string anywhere in row 1-8 in column A, the the string in row 40 will be converted because the external data type now is a string..
Hello, I have 2 table, "table1" is the source one and the other one "table2" is the destination. Columns in Table1 and in Table2 are nvarchar(max). Data loaded from table1 is performed by SSIS OLEDB data flow source, I have found out that opening "Data flow Path Editor" in the Metadata, columns are as: DT_WSTR with lenght 4000.
First question: Why SSIS limit the column to 4000.
Then I get some error for this issue, with the error: input column "col1" (xxxx) and reference column named (coln) have incompatible data type.
As written before both columns are string, the problem is that SSIS limit the lenght of the string to 4000.
I am trying to view report that i deployed to reporting service but when i try to view it, it gives error:
An error has occurred during report processing. Cannot create a connection to data source 'INVC'. For more information about this error navigate to the report server on the local server machine, or enable remote errors
For seting up the connection should we use Connection Manager or New Connection From Data Source?
The advantage of using Data Source is that we have the connection avalilable at project level but I've studied it somewhere that Data Source is used for SSAS not SSIS.
But I don't have enough explanation to give it to my team, that why I am not using Data Source.
We are working on VSS, do we have to reset the connection managers if want to test our packages on some other machine(else than the one on which it was developed)?
My software vendor limits the sessions to one (1) per log-in to Oracle 9i and I€™m having tons of problems trying to extract data through an SSIS package. Everytime I run the package SSIS already logged in and the OLE DB source fails because of the sessions exceeded error. Is there any way to limit the connection to just when I need the data to pump across on the OLE DB source?
I don't really understand the difference between the "data source" and the "connection manager" in a SSIS solution.
I tried to create a data source (if I understood correctly, I will ba able to share that connection between all packages in the solution), then I create a new connection manager inside a package. But when I make a modification in the data source, nothing change in the connection manager ?!!?
What I think is that when I'm making a new connection manager, what's really happen is a copy of the data source, is that correct ? If it is I dont't understand the avantage of making a new data source ....
Why is it that sometimes I get this error and sometimes not after I deploy the same shared data souce to my Report Server?
Even if I try deleting the datasouce through Report Manager the redeploy it from VS 2005, it still errors out when I run my report. I am able to run my report fine in VS.
An error has occurred during report processing.
Cannot create a connection to data source 'mydatasourcenamehere'.
For more information about this error navigate to the report server on the local server machine, or enable remote error
I cannot get this error resolve either for myself or any users, and I'm actually part of the Admin group! Furthermore, a user with whom I'm tring allow to view this report keeps getting prompted for their windows username and password. I thought that since this datasource was set to Windows Authentification that it would just pass it through?
Also As far as I know, I've given sufficient permissions to the right logins and right users on my SQL Databases and related stored procs that the datasets (not datasource) run
An error has occurred during report processing.
Cannot create a connection to data source 'datasourcename'.
For more information about this error navigate to the report server on the local server machine, or enable remote errors
I posted the same issue before, but I couldn't find the solution yet. I am posting this agian cos I tried almost everything and I am not able to solve the issue.
Let me explain what is happening here:
Server A - is my development local machine
Server B - is the remote reporting server, where all reports are deployed
Server C - is where the databases are located
- After successfully deploying the project (the reports and datasources) on the remote server and try to run the report , I am getting the following error message
An error has occurred during report processing. (rsProcessingAborted)
Cannot create a connection to data source 'dsCallB'. (rsErrorOpeningConnection)
For more information about this error navigate to the report server on the local server machine, or enable remote errors
- I tried to deploy and run the same report on my local machine report server(Server A), which is still accessing the same database from Server C. This works fine.
So from this we can understand that A ==> B ==> C is not working, however A ==>C works fine(using Server A as a report server).
I almost tried all the possible solutions that are posted on the forum, such as storing the credential information on the report server (server B), created a data source, which is not a shared data source, on the report server level e.t.c. and I ended up with nuthin.
The weired thing is that there are existing reports that are already created and deployed(by somebody else) in the report server (server B) , which access the database on Server C. These existing reports run with no problem, even I can create a report which uses the existing data source and runs perfectly. However, when I create a new report which uses a different data source (from Server C), and deploy it to Server B and tried to run it, the above error message comes.
Hi! I've created a project includen 3 reports based on following code on 3 server. The report includes 3 different datasources an 3 different report. All 3 reports are grouped on Database and summerizad zise.
SELECT
SD.name [Database],
SMF.name [File],
SMF.size [Size]
FROM
sys.master_files SMF INNER JOIN sys.databases SD
ON SD.database_id = SMF.database_id
I can run all reports in Visual Studio (preview). But I can only run one the reports after depolying the project! I get this message when I raun the other 2 reports:
An error has occurred during report processing.
Cannot create a connection to data source 'uasql02_datasource'.
For more information about this error navigate to the report server on the local server machine, or enable remote errors
I tried running the report from an server (where reportingservices is installed) finding that all the reports works as they should. I logged in another server with the same credentials. I got same message on the server as I get on my own camputer, "Cannot create a connection to data source ..."
Is there anybody out there having same problem as I, or someone who has any suggestion?
Everything is set up the way it should be, as far as we can tell. However, when we drop in a SQL data source and try to configure, it, we get a blank box for choosing the connection string, and it won't let us make a new one.
Has anyone encountered this before? If so, how can we fix it?
I successfully created the a Report model and deployed it to the server. When i run the a simple report on the SQL Server where reporting Services is installed it runs fine. When I run the report from anywhere else, I get the error below. I don't have a datasource called 'dataSource1'.
For more information about this error navigate to the report server on the local server machine, or enable remote errors ---------------------------- Cannot create a connection to data source 'dataSource1'. ---------------------------- An error has occurred during report processing.
I hope this is a fairly simple problem that I'm just missing. I've installed SQL Server 2005 Developer Edition on Windows XP Professional. I'm trying to create an ODBC data source under an ID I created ("InstallOwner") that is part of the administrators group. In the Wizard, I give it a name and default to the "local" server. I selected to authenticate the ID using SQL Server authentication. However when I enter the ID and Password, I get the following error. "Connection Failed - SQL State=28000, SQL Server Error: 18456, [microsoft][SQL Native Client][SQL Server] Login Failed for user "InstallOwner". If I use the "sa" account, it works fine. Can someone point me in the right direction?
I have installed Operations Manager on one server and Reporting Services for Operations Manager on another. When I attempt to run reports from Operations Manager, I receive the following message: Cannot Create a Connection to Data Source "DataSource1" Any suggestions?