Import From A Flatfile With Rows That Have Different Formats
Jan 23, 2008
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
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Jan 23, 2008
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
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Dec 28, 2007
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
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Jun 29, 2006
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
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May 30, 2007
In SSIS it is very easy to import any kind of file using the Import/Export Wizard but programming in SSIS package to do the same thing is almost impossible. It can even be done by using OPENROWSET in SQL management studio but then there are problems with Excel data types and etc..
I have done my research and so far I couldnt figure it out, I know poeple have done it but I am new to SSIS and I need clearer instructions. This is my situation..
I have created a package that checks an then creates a database and then creates a table based on the Excel/csv/sdf/dbf etc file. (The structure is captured in another database using a front end app). I am stuck at importing the file into the table that I just created. I cannot use the design time tools as the files coming in will be in different formats and structures. I have found different examples of desinging the package programatically but I dont know how to:
1. Convert C# to VB. Net (Actually Im looking for the example of the code in VB.net rather than converting it)
2. Add the code in my design (Most of the code that I have seen looks like they are creating the package from scratch).
I am following this but I keep getting stuck.. (http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=749383&SiteID=1)
Any help will be appreciated..
I have used these key words for my research so far: copy data from excel to SQL, vb .net ssis custom column maping, cutsom transform, custom data flow , build column mapping programatically, script component custom source destination transform mapping
Hope answer to this thread will help many people (like me) who are in the learning process..
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Mar 14, 2008
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
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Nov 25, 1998
hi, I am importing data daily to many tables, I want to keep track of the #of rows for each import process. I already have created a trigger as follow:
CREATE TRIGGER tr_bcp_log ON dbo.A
FOR INSERT
AS
declare @name varchar(30),
@row_count int
select @name=name , @row_count= @@rowcount
from inserted
insert into bcp_tracks (name,row_count)
values(@name,@row_count)
GO
The problem is that I am getting a row for each inserted row in table A.for instance if I have 500 rows in table A, I will get 500 rows in the log table like this
table_name,#of rows
A 1
A 1
A 1
etc up to 500 rows for table A
This is not what I want, I want to capture the num of rows for every bcp process , so in the log table I want to see the following :
table_name, #of rows
A 500
B 600
C 450
A 250
etc
Any help ?
thanks
Ali
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I'm guessing the answer might be in one of the Data Flow Transformation objects, but I'm not very familiar with them.
Any pointers would be greatly appreciated.
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a.columname2 <--> int type column
while b. columname3 <--->varchar type
how should i use convert function
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My query returns no errors but no data gets imported.
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?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<status>
<connection_status>successful</connection_status>
<operation_status>successful</operation_status>
<CustomerDeposits>
[code]....
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Why isn't zero (0) a valid numeric value? I don't want to skip any rows. PLUS, I get the same error when trying to export to a text file although the header rows to skip field does not exist. I can increase the number to 1 or more, but the wizard will skip part of my data .. unacceptable.
What am I missing here? I installed SP1 of SQL server 2005, but that did not help.
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Hello again,
As a beginner I would like to replace records in a Table with Records from a Flatfile.
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Can someone give me a hint how to do?
I'm looking forward to an early answer.
Regards
Chaepp
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The 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
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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
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Mar 27, 2007
Hi all,
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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...
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Jan 3, 2007
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!
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Sep 10, 2007
Hi,
I have a Conditional Split to FlatFile Destination.
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Hi:
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
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Hi,
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Hi,
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