Importing From Xls That Has All Data In First Column
Sep 19, 2006
I have a spreadsheet that has all of the data in the first column. The data is delimited by asterisks and there are no column headings. My goal is to import the data into a SQL table. I get the error message "External table is not in the expected format" when I try to select the name of the Excel sheet in the Excel Source Editor. I tried reading using a flat file connection instead of Excel connection, but that didn't work.
In Excel, I can use the Text to Columns feature to convert the data to columns in the spreadsheet. But I have to go into the file manually to do that. Is there a way in SSIS to do the same thing automatically? Or is there a way to save the XLS as a TXT file? Then, I could just use Flat File Connection to read the delimited data.
Thanks.
cpat
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Jul 20, 2005
Hi everyone,I encountered an error "Need to run the object to perform this operationCode execution exception: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION" When I try to import data from Oracle to MS SQL Server with EnterpriseManager (version 8.0) using DTS Import/Export Wizard. There are 508 rowsin Oracle table and I did get first 42 rows imported to SQL Server.Anyone knows what does the above error message mean and what causes therest of the row failed importing?Thanks very much in advance!Rene Z.--Posted via http://dbforums.com
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Nov 29, 2007
I am trying to import a table from a remote database which has a new column added, which I want along with the rest of the data. When I try doing the import via the wizard (Tasks -> Import Data...), the option to drop and re-create the destination table is disabled. Under "Mappings", the newly added column appears as the last row, but for the Destination column, it says "<ignore>" and presents no other option.
How can I bring this new column over? I've checked the table via the dependency viewer, there are no objects which depend on it and no objects on which it depends.
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Isn't the Idenity column supposed to incement automatically without me having to provide a value? Using INSERT provides an Identity value automatically, using import however doesn't.
How can I overcome this problem? (I now delete and recreate the Identity column - really BAD practice!)
Thank you.
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Apr 21, 2008
I am trying to import data from an excel file. One of the columns contains textual information with linefeeds. Its length is greater than 255 characters. I am having trouble with truncation of the data. Is there a limitation I am running into? Is there a work around?
TIA
eventnext
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May 15, 2006
good morning,
I want to load data that i receive everydays from my customers in .xls file format (excel) or cvs file format, to the database that i have created on this purpose. but when trying to do that whith SSIS; i got an error message .... that i can't import redudant data in my database column.
Best regards.
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Hi
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The field shows the time of a transaction in the format of "12:20 AM"
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Thanks
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Hi All
I've got a flatfile which contains a column SALEDATE with this data
20070802
''
20070804
''
20070805
20070901
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I use a derived column with this expression
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This expression fails whenever it comes across a blank field.
How can evaluate my expression to insert a null if it comes across a blank field?
Thank You
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Nov 7, 2007
True story. Thanks. Dont think that fixed or ragged is going to work for me though. File does not seem to be structured.
I have what appears to be a fixed length file that I would like to import using SSIS. However it does not look loike the spacing between fields is constant. Is there a way to say from character 1 to 10 is X, and 11 to 15 is Y, etc etc? Below is a couple of rows that all pertain to the same record.
01000000225672101242253 55232101242253 5TKTT / 0101 FFVV 5235MCYSNR/CE MUSSETT/BRIAN.A.MR 20071017U7700002277000022 U00000000ZAJNB JNB ZA 00000000 00000000 00000000 SITII Y06 405
02000000235672101242253 55232101242253 5ICE 20071017 1407000017OCT 17OCT
03000000245672101242253 55232101242253 5 PLZPLZ ZAR 1000 ZAR 72ZAZAR 140ZVZAR 562XTZAR 1774 ADT PENALTY APPLIES
04000000255672101242253 55232101242253 50000017740000000100000ZAR200000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 00000000000000000000000000000000 000000000000000000000000000000000ZA 00000007200ZV 00000014000EV 00000001600YR 00000054600 00000000000 00000000000 00000000000 00000000000 00000000000
05000000265672101242253 55232101242253 51 OPLZ DUR CE CE 0633 0633 K K 18OCT18OCT18OCT1625 1740 OK KOW 2 DUR PLZ CE CE 0602 0602 B B 20OCT20OCT20OCT1000 1115 OK BOW
07000000275672101242253 55232101242253 5CCIK5221 000001774005221591015192982 0308M067781 00000000000 00000000000 00000000000
08000000285672101242253 55232101242253 509PLZ CE DUR550CE PLZ450ZAR1000 END CE XT16EV546YR 1 2 3 4
What do you reckon is the best option? SUBSTRING in a Dervied Column? Below is an example of the text.
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I am trying to import 1 spreadsheet to a database table. I am using SSMS export import wizard to import spreadsheet. My goal is to import whole spreadsheet in one single column.
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I think the question is down to "How to importing/exporting data when table contains ErrorCode or ErrorColumn column?"
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Sep 10, 2007
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now when I am trying to import a data from this MS Access File(db1.mdb) into the another SQL Server 2005 database, got the error of Unicode Converting a memo data type conversion in Export/Import data wizard.
Could you please let me know what is the reason?
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I am with SQL Server 2005 Standard Edition with SP2.
Please help me to understans this issue correctly?
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Jun 18, 2007
I have created a simple package that uses a sql command to pull data from an oracle database and inserts the data into a sql 2005 table. Some of the data fields that i am pulling from contain two digits after the decimal point, however this data is lost when it gets into sql. I have even tried putting the data into a flat file, and still the data is lost.
In the package I have a ole db source connection which is the oracle database and when i do the preview i see all the data I need. I am very confused and tried a number of things to get the data into sql, but none work. Any ideas would be very helpful.
thanks
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Apr 18, 2007
Hi
SSIS is brand new for me.. Playing with since a few hours..
Iam trying to import a Flat File into the SQLSERV DB using SSIS..
One of the column is in this format -- "YYYYMMDDHH24MISS"
How do i get around this to import the data in a readable fashion into the Destination?
Thanks!
MKR
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Jul 17, 2007
hi
when i m importing data from excel to Sql using DTS the column which has text content was not imported as same in excel sheet. whereas a special character is appearing in between the lines. the text field contains multiple lines but the conetent is imported in single line .
ex:
ARIZONA
ALABAMA
STATE
but i m getting imported
as :
ARIZONA ALABAMA STATE
How to Format a single column while importing?
Regards
Raj
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Mar 19, 2007
Hi all :)
I'm wondering if SSIS will be the solution to the problem I'm working on.
Some of our customers give us an Excel sheet with data they want to insert or update in the database.
I've created a package that will take an Excel sheet, do some data conversion so the data types match up and after that I use a Slowly Changing Data component to create the insert/update commands.
This works great. If a customer adds a new row to the Excel sheet or updates an existing row changes are nicely reflected in the database.
But now I€™ve got the following problem. The column names and the order of the columns in the Excel sheet are not standard and in the future it could happen a customer doesn't even use an Excel sheet but something totally different.
Can I use SSIS for this? Is it possible to let the user set the mappings trough some sort of user interface? I€™ve looked at programmatically creating the package but I€™ve got to say that€™s quit hard to do€¦ It would be easier to write the whole thing myself than to create the package trough code ;)
If not I thought about transforming the data in code before I pass it on to the SSIS package in something like XML. That way I can use standard column names and data types.
So how should I solve this problem? Use SSIS or not?
Thnx :)
Wouter de Kort
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Jun 11, 2006
I'm new to SQL and DTS packages. I am trying to import data from an excel spreadsheet to an SQL server table via DTS package. It seems that the excel task looks at the first few records in a column to determine the datatype for that column. If the first few records are text, the entire column is imported as text. If numeric, the entire column is imported as numeric.
There are about 25,000 records. In one field, the most important one, about half of the records begin with letters and the rest are all numbers. It is the subscriber ID field, and some subscriber IDs are all numbers, some are letters and numbers. The entire column should be imported as text. However, when I run the transform data task from the excel connection, none of the records that are all numbers are imported. I end up correctly importing only 13,000 of the 25,000 records. The rest are imported with the subscriberID field as <NULL>.
I tried using the CAST or CONVERT function in the SQL query, but get the error message "Undefined Function."
Can anyone give me some help? Thanks,
Jim
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Jun 27, 2006
hello,
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Nov 28, 2005
I am creating a DTS package that is combining several tables, converting one column of data to a new column removing all special characters, then exporting the unique data based on this column and another column, and the max of other duplicates to a new table.
Now that I have the data in this table, I want to import any data that is not in my main table.
This "CLEANED" table does not have a designated "key" column, but the table I want to import the unique items does have an ID column that is also a primary key column.
DTS seems to want me to have a Key column to reference when importing from the CLEANED table to the MAIN table.
How would I go about checking the MAIN table against the CLEANED table, having DTS import only the unique items from the CLEANED table that are not present in the MAIN table based on three columns? The rest of the columns I want to just extract the MAX data from the duplicates.
Now here is the query I use to extract the unique values from the "CLEANING" table to get the data to the "CLEANED" table, but do not know how to use this to import into the MAIN table using something similar.
Code:
select
partno2,
MAX (partno) as partno,
alt,
MAX (C_alt) as C_alt,
Max (cmpycd) as cmpycd,
MAX (type) as type,
compFN,
MAX (pndesc) as pndesc,
MAX (equipment) as equipment
into tbl_CLEANED
from tbl_CLEANING
group by partno2, alt, compFN
ORDER BY partno, compFN
The three main columns I need to check against are:
partno2
alt
compFN
I have named the columns the same in both tables.
partno2 is the column that has been copied from partno with all special characters & spaces removed. This is the main column I am using as a reference for unique values, then if no match, I have it check against the alt column, then the comFN column. If there are no matches in any of these columns, then I want to extract the data to the MAIN table.
How can I compare these tables and import only unique info to the MAIN table?
In addition, how can I also check items that are the same in both tables and update the MAX info for the other columns (not the three I use for reference - these I need to leave alone) and update those if there is more data in the CLEANED table then in the MAIN table?
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Feb 12, 2005
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What I want to do now is add this to an existing ASP.NET project and be able to call this DTS function by the click of a button.
Is this possible and how can I go about it? Can I just add it to the Click event of a button?
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Mar 17, 2002
Hallo every one,
I', working for a school project.
The setuation is an old database that has to be repaird.
All the data from each table of the old data base are stored in different tabdelimited text files.
I designed a new database, but the tables are a little different.
When I try to import the data I get some errors, because of the changed tables.
An example of my new setuation is a new table thas as colums from 2 different tabdelimited text files.
My question is, how do I solve thos problem!
Do I have to use DTS?
What do I have to do.
tnx
icheron.
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I am trying to import data from excel into my server, but get this error message:
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Anyone get me in the right direction?
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Apr 24, 2007
we are trying to import data from a flat file using an uptick (`) as a column separator and {CR/LF} as a record terminator. There is a variable number of columns for each record. The initial record in the flat file has 3 columns. Upon processing this record, the import sets all records to 3 columns and does not read the column separators past the second column (even though there may be up to 7 columns in the record).
This method worked ok in DTS2000 and it works with Excel. Any suggestions?
Thank You
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Mar 21, 2007
There's alot of discussion in this Forum concerning the importation of data into SSE.
I recently discovered that you can quite easily export tables directly from MSAccess to SSE. Simply 1) select the desired MSAccess table, 2) choose 'Export' from the file menu, 3) in the 'Save as Type' drop down, select ODBC databases(), 4) at this point, an 'Export' dialog with the name of the selected table appears, 5) click 'OK', 6) the Data Source Manager appears - go to 'Machine Data Source' and select a DSN that connects to SSE (you need to have set this DSN up before), 7) click 'OK' and and your table will be exported from MSAccess to SSE.
For whatever reason, the table you exported will always end up in SSEs 'Master' database tables. There is probably some work-around to correct this, but I havnt spent much time fooling with it.
Now, MSAccess has a very good parser for importing several types of external data, including Excel worksheets, CSV files, and text data. However, to get a satisfactory into MSAccess, you may need to edit your data files. Then, to import the data, from MSAccess select 'Get External Data' -> 'Import' from the File menu and just follow the instructions.
BTW, there is alot of confusing discussion concerning the ability of SSE to use DTS. Some have said that it is not supported, only in the full-blown version. Others have suggested you can download the DTS application from Microsoft and use it with SSE although it does not show up in the SSEMS directory tree.
I downloaded the file 'SQLServer2005_DTS.msi' and tried to install it. It appeared to install OK but I cannot find it anywhere on my machine. Weird, eh.
While most of this thread is in the way of a comment, I have a couple of questions:
1 - Is there some way to connect a machine DSN to a database in SSE that is other than 'Master' ?
2 - Are there better ways to import data into SSE ?
3 - Is there some way to move or copy a table from one SSE database to another ?
BTW, please do not respond to this thread by posting some link. Many of the links I have attempted to follow from this Forum are either irrelevant to the posted problem or are no longer available. If I wanted that kind of help, I could use Google or go to the library. Try to answer the question(s) directly. If you don't know the answer, say so, or at least, don't answer at all.
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For actindx of 2 and Calendar_Month of 2014-01-01The Trial_Balance_Debit is 19585.46 This would make the Beginning_Balance of actindx 2 and Calendar_Month of 2014-02-01 19585.46
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Table creation and data insert is below.
SET ANSI_NULLS ON
GO
SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON
GO
SET ANSI_PADDING ON
GO
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[TrialBalance](
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[Code] ....
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