Hi.
We have a sql server db that we need to store Unicode text in. The fields are of the type nvarchar, ntext and nchar. Our solution uses both Oracle and SqlServer as a backing database. In Oracle there is a connection string switch "Unicode=True" that fixes the problem. Is there something similar in SqlServer? Since the db layer is generic we'ed like to avoid using a N' prefix on text strings in query statements.
I am following the SSIS overview video- URL...I have a flat file that i want to import the contents onto a SQL database.I created a Dataflow task, source file and oledb destination.I am getting the folliwung error -"column "A" cannot convert between unicode and non-unicode string data types".in the origin file the data type is coming as string[DT_STR] and in the destination object it is coming as "Unicode string [DT_WSTR]"I used a data conversion object in between, dosent works very well
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View 32 Replies View RelatedI have an SSIS package that pulls data from a MYSQL DB (Using RSSBus for Salesforce in SSIS to accomplish this). Most of the columns are loading properly, but I have many columns that I need to convert.
I have been using the Data Conversion dataflow task in SSIS to convert the rows.
I have 2 data conversions that work on most of the columns, but the DESCRIPTION column continues to return an error saying "Cannot convert between unicode and non-unicode types", regardless of what I choose on the Data Conversion task. So, basically I want to dump this column data into a SQL table with NVARCHAR datatypes. Here is what I am doing in my SSIS package...
1) Grab subset of data from SOURCE
2) Converts to TEXTSTREAM. (Data Conversion)
3) Converts to STRING. (Data Conversion)
4) Load Destination table. (OLE DB Destination)
I have also tried to simply convert the values to STRING, but that doesn't work either.
So, I have 2 Data Conversions working here that process most of the data correctly. What I can do to load the DESCRIPTION column?
Hi guys and gals,
I've had some great headaches with SSIS this morning, which I have managed to get a workarounds for, but I'm not happy with them so I've come to ask for advice.
Basically, I am exporting data from an SQL Server database into an Excel spreadsheet and hitting issues with unicode and non-unicode data types.
For example, I have a column that is char(6) and have added a data conversion step to the data flow, which converts it to type DT_WSTR and then everything works!
However, this seems like a completely un-neccessary step as I should be able to do the conversion in T-SQL - but no matter what I try I keep getting the same problem.
SELECT Cast(employee_number As nvarchar(255)) As [employee_number]
FROM employee
WHERE forename = 'george'
ErrorValidation error. details: 1 [1123]: Column "employee_number" cannot convert between unicode and non-unicode string data types.
I know I have a solution (read: workaround) but I really don't want to do this everytime!
Any suggestions for what else to try?
I have an Excel Source component hooked to an OLE DB Destination component in my SSIS 2005 Data Flow Task. After I mapped the excel columns to the OLE DB table columns i get these errors below. I noticed that for the first error, the Excel Field format (when you mouse over the column name in the mappings section in OLE DB component) is of type [DTWSTR] and the corresponding SQL field from my SQL table that it's mapping to is of type [DT_STR] when mousing over that field in the mappings in the properties of my OLE DB component. All table fields in SQL Server for the table I'm inserting into are of type varchar.
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Package Validation Error
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Error at Data Flow Task [OLE DB Destination [27]]: Columns "Commission Agency" and "CommissionAgency" cannot convert between unicode and non-unicode string data types.
Error at Data Flow Task [OLE DB Destination [27]]: Column "Product" cannot convert between unicode and non-unicode string data types.
Error at Data Flow Task [OLE DB Destination [27]]: Columns "Officer Code" and "OfficerCode" cannot convert between unicode and non-unicode string data types.
Error at Data Flow Task [OLE DB Destination [27]]: Columns "Agency Name" and "AgencyName" cannot convert between unicode and non-unicode string data types.
Error at Data Flow Task [OLE DB Destination [27]]: Columns "Agency Id" and "AgencyID" cannot convert between unicode and non-unicode string data types.
Error at Data Flow Task [OLE DB Destination [27]]: Columns "Tran Code" and "TranCode" cannot convert between unicode and non-unicode string data types.
Error at Data Flow Task [OLE DB Destination [27]]: Columns "User Id" and "UserID" cannot convert between unicode and non-unicode string data types.
Error at Data Flow Task [OLE DB Destination [27]]: Columns "Acct Number" and "AccountNumber" cannot convert between unicode and non-unicode string data types.
Error at Data Flow Task [DTS.Pipeline]: "component "OLE DB Destination" (27)" failed validation and returned validation status "VS_ISBROKEN".
Error at Data Flow Task [DTS.Pipeline]: One or more component failed validation.
Error at Data Flow Task: There were errors during task validation.
(Microsoft.DataTransformationServices.VsIntegration)
HI.
I'm having this problem.
I use Visual Studio's, integration project to load XML file into SQL Server. In the XML file, i have defined collumns as string. When i try to load XML file with parts defined in scheme as string, i get an error "cannot convert between unicode and non-unicode string data type.
Destinated collumns in SQL are defined as varchar and char.
Thanks for help
Hi,
I have spent countless number of hours trying to solve the issue, but to no vail. My problem is SSIS throws "cannot convert between unicode and non-unicode string data types" when i am try to transform data from DB2 to SQL Server 2005. And please note, i tried all possibilities like changing the destination field which is in SQL Server 2005 to nvarchar and also text. But so far no help. And i also looked at previous posts which did not help me either.
Thank You in advance.
We've installed the Oracle provider for OLE DB on SQL Server 2005, which has the default collation (SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS), and we've created a linked server for the Oracle 9.2.0.5 database, which has AL32UTF8 as the database character set. We can successfully insert strings into VARCHAR2 columns on Oracle from SQL Server via EXEC SP_EXECUTESQL('INSERT OPENQUERY(...) VALUES(...)') -- as long as the strings (whether selected from NVARCHAR columns on SQL Server or specified as literals with the N prefix during testing) only contain Windows-1252 characters.
If the SQL statement contains a character above U+00FF, the string on the Oracle side is incorrectly/doubly encoded; there are nearly (but not exactly) 4 bytes per character instead of the 1 or 2 you'd expect from ASCII/Latin-1 characters encoded as UTF-8.
We've tried reconfiguring the linked server: collation compatible = false, use remote collation = true, and collation name = Latin1_General_BIN2. But that had no effect.
What is the correct way to do this?
Thanks!
Hi all, we are now planning to upgrade our application from anon-unicode version to a unicode version. The application's backend isa SQL Server 2000 SP3.The concern is, existing business data are stored using collation"Chinese_PRC_CI_AS", i.e. Simplified Chinese. So I thought we need toextract these data out to the new SQL Server which is using Unicode (Iassume it means converting them to nchar, nvarchar type of fields for Idon't enough information from the application side, or is there ageneral unicode collation that will make even char and varchar types tostore data as Unicode?).The problem is what's the best and most efficient way to do this dataconversion?bcp? DTS? or others?thanks a lot
View 6 Replies View RelatedIn my package , I am used CDC Source transformation and received the Net changes then insert into Destination. But whatever Data coming from CDC source data type Varchar value needs to Converting Non Unicode string to Unicode string SSIS. So used Data conversion transformation to achieved this. I need to achieve this without data conversion.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI'm connecting to a SQL Server 2005 database using the latest (beta) sql server driver (Microsoft SQL Server 2005 JDBC Driver 1.1 CTP June 2006) from within Java (Rational Application Developer).
The table in SQL Server database has collation Latin1_General_CI_AS and one of the columns is a NVARCHAR with collation Indic_General_90_CI_AS. This should be a Unicode only collation. However when storing for instance the following String:
__ÙÚÜÛùúüû_ÅÆØåæøßÇçÑñ__ЎўЄє?ґ_пр?туф_ЂЉЊЋ
... it is saved with ? for all unicode characters as follows (when looking in the database):
__ÙÚÜÛùúüû_ÅÆØåæøßÇçÑñ__??????_??????_????
The above is not correct, since all unicode characters should still be visible. When inserting the same string directly into the sql server database (without using Java) the result is ok.
Also when trying to retrieve the results again it complains about the following error within Java:
Codepage 0 is not supported by the Java environment.
Hopefully somebody has an answer for this problem. When I alter the collation of the NVARCHAR column to be Latin1_General_CI_AS as well, the data can be stored and retrieved however then of course the unicode specific characters are lost and results into ? So in that case the output is as described above (ie __ÙÚÜÛùúüû_ÅÆØåæøßÇçÑñ__??????_??????_????)
We would like to be able to persist and retrieve unicode characters in a SQL Server database using the correct JDBC Driver. We achieved this result already with an Oracle UTF8 database. But we need to be compliant with a SQL Server database as well. Please help.
Thanks in advance for your help.
For packages that I have created to read Oracle 10g tables, that work fine with debugging in 32-bit mode, I get an error message on all string fields when I try to run in 64-bit mode. An example error message is:[OLE DB Source [1]] Error: Column "ACCT_UNIT" cannot convert between unicode and non-unicode string data types.Another interesting warning included is:[OLE DB Source [1]] Warning: The external columns for component "OLE DB Source" (1) are out of synchronization with the data source columns. The external column "ACCT_UNIT" needs to be updated.I cannot even try to convert this data with a Data Conversion item because the (red) error is on the OLE DB Source item and stops there. It doesn't matter what the destination is or even if there is a destination in the package yet.I'm using Oracle Provider for OLE DB, Oracle Client version 10.203 for 32-bit and Oracle Client 10.204 for 64-bit.Oracle is 10g on a UNIX 64-bit server and the data is not unicode.I'm using SQL Server Enterprise 2008 (10.0.1600) on Windows Server 2008 Standard SP1 on a 64-bit server.The packages work fine in 32-bit mode and the data is not unicode data. When I change Run64BitRuntime to True in the Debugging Property Page, I get the error on the OLE DB Source item. I also get the error when I schedule a package to run using the SQL Server Agent.
View 4 Replies View RelatedAny one know the process of transfering the database from non-unicode to unicode. Coz I like to transfer the data from english to hebrew.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI am getting unicode data into my database table and I am unable to see that data in my quesry analyzer. Can I convert that unicode data into varchar datatype?
AND how can i See that unicode data.
Hi,
Could someone please tell me how to update data in a column that contains unicode data in SQL 2000?
I know how to write update scripts on my own, but when it comes to Unicode character updates I can?ft manage. In the script that I have pasted below I can update the customer?fs details, but this only works if I update with Romaji characters (non-unicode).
The data that I need to update is in Japanese Kanji, but when I use the 'Update' script below, the data is updated as all question marks (???????????).
Is it very much harder to get the script to where it will handle Unicode characters and insert the correct data?
UPDATE CUSTOMER_LANGUAGE_DETAILS
SET FIRST_NAME = '‰h?s'
WHERE CUSTOMER_ID = 1592
I am getting problem in fetching data from SQL using C++ program.
How to Fetch SQL Unicode characters?
I am using ODBC driver calls in C++ to fetch SQL data.
It is working fine with character data.
But for Unicode data it displays ????? instead of data.
I am using SQL Server SQLSRV32.DLL for creating datasource.
Following is my code:
#include <windows.h>
#include <sqlext.h>
#include<srv.h>
#include<stdio.h>
#include <iostream.h>
#include <string.h>
int main(void)
{
void print_err2(RETCODE rc, SQLINTEGER type, SQLHANDLE handle);
HENV hEnv = NULL; // Env Handle from SQLAllocEnv()
HDBC hDBC = NULL; // Connection handle
HSTMT hStmt = NULL;// Statement handle
//UCHAR szDSN[SQL_MAX_DSN_LENGTH] = "myDataSource";// Data Source Name buffer
USHORT *szDSN;
szDSN = (USHORT *) malloc (sizeof(USHORT) * 13);
szDSN= (unsigned short *)"myDataSource";
//UCHAR szUID[10] = "sa";// User ID buffer
USHORT *szUID;
szUID= (unsigned short *) "sa";
//UCHAR szPasswd[10] = "bmcAdm1n";// Password buffer
USHORT *szPasswd;
szPasswd= (unsigned short *) "bmcAdm1n";
char buff[9] = "Testing";
// UCHAR szSqlStr[128]= "INSERT into Quali (Colname) Values ('Testing')" ;
//UCHAR szSqlStr[150]= "select name ,default_database_name,default_language_name from sys.sql_logins" ;
USHORT *szSqlStr;
szSqlStr = (USHORT *) malloc (sizeof(USHORT) * 150);
szSqlStr= (unsigned short *) "select name ,default_database_name,default_language_name from sys.sql_logins" ;
RETCODE retcode;
//UCHAR sqlState; // buffer to store SQLSTATE
// UCHAR errMsg[256]; //buffer to store error message
// SWORD count;
USHORT *sqlState;
USHORT *errMsg;
sqlState= (USHORT *) malloc(sizeof(USHORT)*6);
errMsg= (USHORT *) malloc(sizeof(USHORT)*256);
SDWORD retcode3=NULL; // return code
SDWORD nativeErr; // native error code
SWORD realMsgLen; // real length of error message
// sprintf((char*)szSqlStr,"select name ,default_database_name,default_language_name from sys.sql_logins",buff);
// Allocate memory for ODBC Environment handle
cout<<"hEnv before SQLAllocEnv = "<<hEnv<<endl;
retcode= SQLAllocEnv (&hEnv);
cout<<"retcode= "<<retcode<<endl;
cout<<"hEnv after SQLAllocEnv = "<<hEnv<<endl;
cout<<"***********************";
// Allocate memory for the connection handle
cout<<"hDBC before SQLAllocConnect = "<<hDBC<<endl;
retcode= SQLAllocConnect (hEnv, &hDBC);
cout<<"retcode= "<<retcode<<endl;
cout<<"hDBC after SQLAllocConnect = "<<hDBC<<endl;
cout<<"***********************";
SQLAllocHandle(SQL_HANDLE_DBC, hEnv, &hDBC);
// Connect to the data source using userid and password.
retcode = SQLConnect (hDBC, szDSN, SQL_NTS,szUID, SQL_NTS, szPasswd, SQL_NTS);
cout<<"retcode= "<<retcode<<endl;
if (retcode != SQL_SUCCESS )
{
retcode3 = SQLError(SQL_NULL_HDBC, hDBC, SQL_NULL_HSTMT, sqlState,&nativeErr,errMsg, 256, &realMsgLen);
// print_err(sqlState, nativeErr, errMsg, realMsgLen);
//print_err2(retcode,SQL_HANDLE_DBC,hDBC);
cout<<sqlState<<endl<<nativeErr<<endl<<errMsg<<endl<<realMsgLen;
}
if (retcode == SQL_SUCCESS || retcode == SQL_SUCCESS_WITH_INFO)
{
cout<<"Connection established....!";
// Allocate memory for the statement handle
cout<<"hStmt before SQLAllocStmt = "<<hStmt<<endl;
retcode = SQLAllocStmt (hDBC, &hStmt);
cout<<"retcode= "<<retcode<<endl;
cout<<"hStmt after SQLAllocStmt = "<<hStmt<<endl;
cout<<"***********************";
/*
// Prepare the SQL statement by assigning it to the statement handle
retcode = SQLPrepare (hStmt, szSqlStr, sizeof (szSqlStr));
cout<<"Statement szSqlStr: "<<szSqlStr<<endl;
cout<<"Statement hStmt: "<<hStmt<<endl;
// Execute the SQL statement handle
retcode = SQLExecute (hStmt);
*/
retcode = SQLExecDirect(hStmt,szSqlStr, SQL_NTS);
UCHAR name[4000],defDBnm[4000],defLanguage[4000];
SDWORD retcode2, cbname, cbdefDBnm, cbdefLanguage;
retcode2=NULL;
if (retcode2 == SQL_SUCCESS)
{
retcode2 = SQLBindCol(hStmt, 1, SQL_C_CHAR, name, 4000, &cbname);
retcode2 = SQLBindCol(hStmt, 2, SQL_C_CHAR, defDBnm, 4000, &cbdefDBnm);
retcode2 = SQLBindCol(hStmt, 3, SQL_C_CHAR, defLanguage, 4000, &cbdefLanguage);
}
if (retcode2 != SQL_SUCCESS) /* warning or error returned */
{
retcode3 = SQLError(SQL_NULL_HDBC, hDBC, SQL_NULL_HSTMT, sqlState,&nativeErr,errMsg, 256, &realMsgLen);
//print_err(sqlState, nativeErr, errMsg, realMsgLen);
cout<<sqlState<<endl<<nativeErr<<endl<<errMsg<<endl<<realMsgLen;
}
cout <<"****************************************";
while (TRUE)
{
retcode2 = SQLFetch(hStmt);
if (retcode2 == SQL_SUCCESS || retcode2 == SQL_SUCCESS_WITH_INFO)
{
if (cbname == SQL_NULL_DATA) /* check null data */
printf("name: NULL");
else
printf("Name: %s", name);
if (cbdefDBnm == SQL_NULL_DATA)
printf("defDBnm name: NULL");
else
printf("defDBnm name: %s", defDBnm);
if (cbdefLanguage == SQL_NULL_DATA)
printf("defLanguage: NULL");
else
printf("defLanguage : %s", defLanguage);
}
else if (retcode2 == SQL_ERROR ) /* warning or error returned */
{
retcode3 = SQLError(SQL_NULL_HDBC, hDBC, SQL_NULL_HSTMT, sqlState,&nativeErr, errMsg, 256, &realMsgLen);
//print_err(sqlState, nativeErr, errMsg, realMsgLen);
cout<<sqlState<<endl<<nativeErr<<endl<<errMsg<<endl<<realMsgLen;
}
else /* if no more data or errors returned */
break;
}
// Project only column 1 which is the models
// SQLBindCol (hStmt, 1, SQL_C_CHAR, szModel, sizeof(szModel), &cbModel);
// Get row of data from the result set defined above in the statement
// retcode = SQLFetch (hStmt);
// Free the allocated statement handle
SQLFreeStmt (hStmt, SQL_DROP);
// Disconnect from datasource
SQLDisconnect (hDBC);
}
// Free the allocated connection handle
SQLFreeConnect (hDBC);
// Free the allocated ODBC environment handle
SQLFreeEnv (hEnv);
return 0;
}
void print_err2(RETCODE rc, SQLINTEGER type, SQLHANDLE handle)
{
//SQLCHAR SqlState, *sq = &SqlState[0];
SQLUSMALLINT *SqlState;
SqlState=(SQLUSMALLINT *) malloc (sizeof(SQLUSMALLINT)*6);
SQLUSMALLINT *sq = &SqlState[0];
SQLCHAR Msg[SQL_MAX_MESSAGE_LENGTH], *ms = &Msg[0];
SQLWCHAR SqlStateW, *sqw = &SqlStateW[0];
SQLWCHAR MsgW[SQL_MAX_MESSAGE_LENGTH], *msw = &MsgW[0];
SQLINTEGER NativeError;
SQLSMALLINT i=1, MsgLen;
RETCODE ret;
int j;
printf("Error number is %d", rc);
while (SQL_SUCCEEDED(SQLGetDiagRec(type, handle, i++,(unsigned short *) SqlState, &NativeError, (unsigned short *)Msg, sizeof(Msg), &MsgLen)) )
{
printf("State: %s Native Error Code: %d %s (%d)",
SqlState,NativeError,Msg, MsgLen);
}
}
Regards
Ketaki
Hi,
I want to fetch Unicode data from MS SQL server 2005.I have created one user with russian language characters.
Following is my code snippet:
------------------------------------
wchar_twchar1[55];
char VALUE[255];
while (rc != SQL_NO_DATA)
{
rc = SQLFetch(hstmt);
if (rc != SQL_NO_DATA)
memset(VALUE,0,255);
int length=wcstombs( NULL,(wchar_t *)&wchar1, wcslen(wchar1));
char* strChar = (char *) malloc((length +1 )* sizeof(char));
if (strChar != NULL)
{
count++;
memset(strChar,0, length + 1 );
int i =wcstombs(strChar, wchar1, wcslen(wchar1) );
printf( "i is %d",i);
}
printf( "The length is %d",length);
wprintf(L" <%s>", wchar1);
printf(" simple char <%s>", strChar);
wprintf(L" simple char <%S>", wchar1);
}
-----------------------------------
CAn anybody help me ?
I think problem is in fetching of name.
Does anybody have working code for fetching unicode data from SQL server 2005.
Also I want query that will tell the locale setting of the server and also client?
Thanks-----
HI,
I want to store unicode data and retrieve them using C#.
How can I do so?
Data is saved but can not retrive. The data displayed as (??????).
Could Anybody Help me.
I have built a large package and due to database changes (varchar to nvarchar) I need to do a data conversion of all the flat file columns I am bringing in, to a unicode data type. The way I know how to do this is via the data conversion component/task. My question is, I am looking for an easy way to "Do All Columns" and "Map all Columns" without doing every column by hand in both spots.
I need to change all the columns, can I do this in mass? More importantly once I convert all these and connect it to my data source it fails to map converted fields by name. Is there a way when using the data conversion task to still get it to map by name when connecting it to the OLE destination?
I know I can use the wizard to create the base package, but I have already built all the other components, renamed and set the data type and size on all the columns (over 300) and so I don't want to have to re-do all that work. What is the best solution?
In general I would be happy if I could get the post data conversion to map automatically to the source. But because its DataConversion.CustomerID it will not map to CustomerID field on destination. Any suggestions on the best way to do this would save me hours of work...
Thanks.
Hi there,Trying to work with SQL2005 with Hebrew characters. If i use the Unicode character data types do i need to change the database collation???. regards
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In ASP application, when we are trying to read data from these tables, Kanji characters are coming as '?????'. We are using shift-jis character set in ASP.
Templates for field and column header uses shift-jis, but a record set coming from MSSql is Unicode.
Is there a way to convert from Unicode to Shift-jis in MSSql or in ASP .
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Hi all,I am using a Strongly Typed DataSet (ASP.NET 2.0) to insert new data into a SQL Server 2000 database, types of some fields in db are nvarchar. All thing work fine except I can not insert unicode data(Vietnamese language) into db.I can't find where to put prefix N. Please help me!!!
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Now, I need to get new records that are added to the AS400 side of things on a daily basis. For that, I was trying to use the OLEDB AS400 connector. However, I found that the OLEDB connector wouldn't work when I was trying to specify an SQL Statement for what to get; i.e., a simple query like Select * from TWLDAT.STKT where BYSDAT >= '2005-01-27' would simply not work. Found articles here explaining that it is probably a problem on the AS400 side of things and where people recommended using an ADO ODBC data reader source for this type of thing. So, I'm trying to implement that. However, I have a huge problem with it.
The original tables that got created were mapped to use NVARCHAR fields for character data. When the ADO ODBC data reader source accesses the AS400 data, it insists on interpreting the string type fields as being unicode strings and giving it a data type of DT_WSTR when what I need it to have is a plain old DT_STR data type. When the strings are interpreted as unicode strings, they cannot be converted in a way that allows the NVARCHAR fields to be filled with the data. The exact error message I get for all the fields that should wind up being nvarchar fields is as follows:
Column "BYStOK" cannot convert between unicode and non-unicode string data types.
Okay, so I try to change the data types in the ADO ODBC data reader to be plain DT_STR data types and I cannot do so.
Does anyone have any idea why the ADO ODBC data reader source insists on interpreting the string data coming from the AS 400 as unicode string data or why it refuses to allow that to be changed to DT_STR data type?
Thanks in advance for any info. By the way, if there is a better way than the ADO ODBC data source to get at this data when I need to specify an SQL command, I would love to hear about it. Not wild about using ODBC in the OLEDB age.
Steve Wells
I am having an issue fetching Chinese characters in a XML data type. It return questions mark (?).
Below is the sample script.
DECLARE @XMLVAR XML
SET @XMLVAR = '<?xml version="1.0"?>
<POLICY_SEARCH xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<NAME>QA*保险1</NAME><NUMBER /></POLICY_SEARCH>'
SELECTI.xmlParam.query('./NAME').value('.','NVARCHAR(25)') NAME
,I.xmlParam.query('./NUMBER').value('.','NVARCHAR(25)') NUMBER
FROM@XMLVAR.nodes('POLICY_SEARCH') AS I(xmlParam)
I have Informix 9.4TC6 and SQL Server 2005.DB_LOCALE in Informix DB is en_US.utf8 (en_US.57372).First, I created DSN to Informix. Then tried to get data with WinSqltool and it works fine.But when I created linked server in SQL Server 2005 I have problemswith languages other than English.I get a string like: ' -|工 1/4 1/43/4It seems to me that SQL Server splits 2-byte characters in 2 1-bytecharacters.If in options of linked server we set Collation Name to exactlanguagewe want --then string data will be correct (of course only oflanguage that we choose).Do you have any suggestions?????????P.S. I don't want to use SSIS (DTS) for extraction from Informix DB
View 1 Replies View RelatedSince my foxpro OLE driver has been rendered useless by service pack 1 for sql server 2005 I am forced to use the .net data provider for odbc.
I am importing a number of tables.. each time I add the DataReader Source to the dataflow and connected it to the OLE DB Destination I get a load of the good old "cannot convert between unicode and non-unicode string data types" errors...
So I'm having to do derived column transforms, for each and every column that it coughs up on.
Using expressions like (DT_STR,30,1252)receivedby to convert the "recievedby" column to a DT_STR,
Some of these tables have 100 string columns.. so I'm getting a bit sick of the drudgery of adding all these derivations...
Is there any way to tell this provider to stop deciding that the strings in the foxpro tables are unicode?
Thanks
PJ
In SQL 2000 DTS, I was able to append data from an ODBC source to a SQL 2000 destination table. The destination table was created by copying an attached source table in Access to a new table, then upsizing it to SQL. The character fields come over as varchar, and that seemed to be fine with the DTS job.
Now using the same source table and the same SQL destination, only in SQL 2005 with Integration Services instead of DTS, I get an error because the connection manager interprets the source text fields as Unicode and the destination fields are varchar.
I could script the table and change the text fields in the destination table to nvarchar, but this could have adverse affect on the application that uses the destination table. Is there a way to make the connection manager see the source text fields as varchar, or have the integration package allow the append even though the destination is varchar and the source is nvarchar?
My ssis package exports .xls file data into a sql server table.
The fields in the sql server table have to be nvarchar instead of varchar.
If I use varchar then the ssis package gives an error about converting unicode to non-unicode...
Another ssis package exports .csv data into the sqme sql server table as above.
This time the sql server table fields have to be of type varchar because otherwise the ssis package gives an error about converting non-uniciode to unicode...
I basically would like to have a sql server table with varchar fields and let these packages import into it.
These packages may retrieve data from .csv or .xls.
How can I resolve this?
Thanks
I keep getting the error message below when attempting to import a text file (flat file) to an SQL Server Destination using SSIS. This database has recently been migrated from SQL Server 2000 (where I used a DTS Package that worked fine). I plan on doing further manipulation to the file after importing but have so far tried to keep one step at a time. I have tried using a smaller files and different tables but still get a similar response. I believe that the encoding of the text file is ANSI. If it is relevant the database collation is Latin1_General_CI_AS (the same as it was when 2000). Any help anyone can provide will be greatly appreciated!!!
TITLE: Package Validation Error
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Package Validation Error
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Error at Data Flow Task [SQL Server Destination [174]]: Columns "Column 0" and "AccountNumber" cannot convert between unicode and non-unicode string data types.
Error at Data Flow Task [SQL Server Destination [174]]: The column "Column 1" can't be inserted because the conversion between types DT_STR and DT_I4 is not supported.
Error at Data Flow Task [SQL Server Destination [174]]: The column "Column 2" can't be inserted because the conversion between types DT_STR and DT_I4 is not supported.
Error at Data Flow Task [SQL Server Destination [174]]: Columns "Column 3" and "Name" cannot convert between unicode and non-unicode string data types.
Error at Data Flow Task [SQL Server Destination [174]]: The column "Column 4" can't be inserted because the conversion between types DT_STR and DT_I4 is not supported.
Error at Data Flow Task [SQL Server Destination [174]]: The column "Column 5" can't be inserted because the conversion between types DT_STR and DT_R8 is not supported.
Error at Data Flow Task [SQL Server Destination [174]]: Columns "Column 6" and "ExpiryDate" cannot convert between unicode and non-unicode string data types.
Error at Data Flow Task [SQL Server Destination [174]]: Columns "Column 7" and "RateType" cannot convert between unicode and non-unicode string data types.
Error at Data Flow Task [SQL Server Destination [174]]: The column "Column 8" can't be inserted because the conversion between types DT_STR and DT_BOOL is not supported.
Error at Data Flow Task [SQL Server Destination [174]]: Columns "Column 9" and "FullName" cannot convert between unicode and non-unicode string data types.
Error at Data Flow Task [SQL Server Destination [174]]: Columns "Column 10" and "Address" cannot convert between unicode and non-unicode string data types.
Error at Data Flow Task [SQL Server Destination [174]]: The column "Column 11" can't be inserted because the conversion between types DT_STR and DT_DBTIMESTAMP is not supported.
Error at Data Flow Task [SQL Server Destination [174]]: The column "Column 12" can't be inserted because the conversion between types DT_STR and DT_I4 is not supported.
Error at Data Flow Task [SQL Server Destination [174]]: The column "Column 13" can't be inserted because the conversion between types DT_STR and DT_DBTIMESTAMP is not supported.
Error at Data Flow Task [SQL Server Destination [174]]: Columns "Column 14" and "Occupancy" cannot convert between unicode and non-unicode string data types.
Error at Data Flow Task [SQL Server Destination [174]]: Columns "Column 15" and "LoanPurpose" cannot convert between unicode and non-unicode string data types.
Error at Data Flow Task [SQL Server Destination [174]]: The column "Column 16" can't be inserted because the conversion between types DT_STR and DT_R8 is not supported.
Error at Data Flow Task [SQL Server Destination [174]]: The column "Column 17" can't be inserted because the conversion between types DT_STR and DT_R8 is not supported.
Error at Data Flow Task [SQL Server Destination [174]]: The column "Column 18" can't be inserted because the conversion between types DT_STR and DT_R8 is not supported.
Error at Data Flow Task [SQL Server Destination [174]]: The column "Column 19" can't be inserted because the conversion between types DT_STR and DT_R8 is not supported.
Error at Data Flow Task [SQL Server Destination [174]]: The column "Column 20" can't be inserted because the conversion between types DT_STR and DT_I4 is not supported.
Error at Data Flow Task [SQL Server Destination [174]]: The column "Column 21" can't be inserted because the conversion between types DT_STR and DT_I4 is not supported.
Error at Data Flow Task [SQL Server Destination [174]]: The column "Column 22" can't be inserted because the conversion between types DT_STR and DT_I4 is not supported.
Error at Data Flow Task [SQL Server Destination [174]]: Columns "Column 23" and "DocumentLocation" cannot convert between unicode and non-unicode string data types.
Error at Data Flow Task [SQL Server Destination [174]]: The column "Column 24" can't be inserted because the conversion between types DT_STR and DT_I4 is not supported.
Error at Data Flow Task [SQL Server Destination [174]]: Columns "Column 25" and "SecurityType" cannot convert between unicode and non-unicode string data types.
Error at Data Flow Task [SQL Server Destination [174]]: The column "Column 26" can't be inserted because the conversion between types DT_STR and DT_R8 is not supported.
Error at Data Flow Task [SQL Server Destination [174]]: The column "Column 27" can't be inserted because the conversion between types DT_STR and DT_DBTIMESTAMP is not supported.
Error at Data Flow Task [SQL Server Destination [174]]: The column "Column 28" can't be inserted because the conversion between types DT_STR and DT_R8 is not supported.
Error at Data Flow Task [SQL Server Destination [174]]: Columns "Column 29" and "MortgageInsurancePolicyNumber" cannot convert between unicode and non-unicode string data types.
Error at Data Flow Task [SQL Server Destination [174]]: Columns "Column 30" and "SecurityAddress" cannot convert between unicode and non-unicode string data types.
Error at Data Flow Task [SQL Server Destination [174]]: The column "Column 31" can't be inserted because the conversion between types DT_STR and DT_I4 is not supported.
Error at Data Flow Task [SQL Server Destination [174]]: The column "Column 32" can't be inserted because the conversion between types DT_STR and DT_R8 is not supported.
Error at Data Flow Task [SQL Server Destination [174]]: The column "Column 33" can't be inserted because the conversion between types DT_STR and DT_R8 is not supported.
Error at Data Flow Task [SQL Server Destination [174]]: The column "Column 34" can't be inserted because the conversion between types DT_STR and DT_R8 is not supported.
Error at Data Flow Task [SQL Server Destination [174]]: The column "Column 35" can't be inserted because the conversion between types DT_STR and DT_R8 is not supported.
Error at Data Flow Task [SQL Server Destination [174]]: The column "Column 36" can't be inserted because the conversion between types DT_STR and DT_R8 is not supported.
Error at Data Flow Task [SQL Server Destination [174]]: The column "Column 37" can't be inserted because the conversion between types DT_STR and DT_DBTIMESTAMP is not supported.
Error at Data Flow Task [SQL Server Destination [174]]: Columns "Column 38" and "SecuritySuburb" cannot convert between unicode and non-unicode string data types.
Error at Data Flow Task [SQL Server Destination [174]]: The column "Column 39" can't be inserted because the conversion between types DT_STR and DT_I4 is not supported.
Error at Data Flow Task [SQL Server Destination [174]]: The column "Column 40" can't be inserted because the conversion between types DT_STR and DT_R8 is not supported.
Error at Data Flow Task [SQL Server Destination [174]]: The column "Column 41" can't be inserted because the conversion between types DT_STR and DT_R8 is not supported.
Error at Data Flow Task [SQL Server Destination [174]]: The column "Column 42" can't be inserted because the conversion between types DT_STR and DT_R8 is not supported.
Error at Data Flow Task [SQL Server Destination [174]]: Columns "Column 43" and "MortgageNumber" cannot convert between unicode and non-unicode string data types.
Error at Data Flow Task [SQL Server Destination [174]]: Columns "Column 44" and "TitleParticulars" cannot convert between unicode and non-unicode string data types.
Error at Data Flow Task [SQL Server Destination [174]]: The column "Column 45" can't be inserted because the conversion between types DT_STR and DT_DBTIMESTAMP is not supported.
Error at Data Flow Task [SQL Server Destination [174]]: The column "Column 46" can't be inserted because the conversion between types DT_STR and DT_DBTIMESTAMP is not supported.
Error at Data Flow Task [SQL Server Destination [174]]: The column "Column 47" can't be inserted because the conversion between types DT_STR and DT_DBTIMESTAMP is not supported.
Error at Data Flow Task [SQL Server Destination [174]]: The column "Column 48" can't be inserted because the conversion between types DT_STR and DT_I4 is not supported.
Error at Data Flow Task [SQL Server Destination [174]]: The column "Column 49" can't be inserted because the conversion between types DT_STR and DT_R8 is not supported.
Error at Data Flow Task [SQL Server Destination [174]]: The column "Column 50" can't be inserted because the conversion between types DT_STR and DT_R8 is not supported.
Error at Data Flow Task [SQL Server Destination [174]]: The column "Column 51" can't be inserted because the conversion between types DT_STR and DT_DBTIMESTAMP is not supported.
Error at Data Flow Task [DTS.Pipeline]: "component "SQL Server Destination" (174)" failed validation and returned validation status "VS_ISBROKEN".
Error at Data Flow Task [DTS.Pipeline]: One or more component failed validation.
Error at Data Flow Task: There were errors during task validation.
(Microsoft.DataTransformationServices.VsIntegration)
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My ssis package exports .xls file data into a sql server table.
The fields in the sql server table have to be nvarchar instead of varchar.
If I use varchar then the ssis package gives an error about converting unicode to non-unicode...
Another ssis package exports .csv data into the sqme sql server table as above.
This time the sql server table fields have to be of type varchar because otherwise the ssis package gives an error about converting non-uniciode to unicode...
I basically would like to have a sql server table with varchar fields and let these packages import into it.
These packages may retrieve data from .csv or .xls.
How can I resolve this?Thanks