Having trouble casting GETDATE() to a string value (DT_STR) using expression builder? I want to concatenate the current date to some text used in a send mail task.
View 5 RepliesError: The variable "$Package::LocalConfigDB_ConnectionString" was not found in the Variables collection. The variable might not exist in the correct scope.
Error: Attempt to parse the expression "@[$Package::LocalConfigDB_ConnectionString]" failed and returned error code 0xC00470A6. The expression cannot be parsed. It might contain invalid elements or it might not be well-formed. There may also be an out-of-memory error.
I can't figure this one out. I don't have enough knowledge of the string functions I guess.
I need to pull a value out of a variable I setup in a for each loop. The value is the filename/path of each source file being processed. Let's say the variable that has the source file path is called VAR1.
One sort of off topic thing I've noticed is when watch the variable in bebug mode and I look at the value of VAR1 it has double back slashes. Here's an example of the value of VAR1:
"\\L3KRZR6.na.xerox.net\C$\Documents and Settings\ca051731\Desktop\Project4\DPT_20070926.ver"
How come the back slashes have been doubled? And do I need to account for that when I start parsing the string value?
Anyway, I need to grab part of the filename from VAR1 and I need the value populated at the start of the for each loop container - ideally when I capture VAR1 in the for each container. I'll be using the string in drop table, create table and create index statements before the actual Data Flow task within the overall package
In the above example I need to grab the characters before the underscore and after the last \. So I'd need the string "DPT" captured in this example.
The actual string could be 1 to 3 characters long, even though this example has it as 3 long.
Underscores could exist anywhere in the actual UNC path once this package is moved to our actual system environments so I can't key off of the underscore.
Because I can't count on the string being a fixed lenght I can't just use a positional string function and grab specific text starting/ending at specific points.
Is there a way to use the various string functions in the expression builder to grab the text between the right most underscore and the right most back slashes or something like that? Ideally I'd like to setup a new expression based packed scope variable called VAR2 and build it using string functions applied to VAR1.
How do you write an expression in report builder to only display the results that start with a certain string value..eg. Project Number - CUP1501, DPR1502, ENG1507 etc. These values will all get returned but I only want the Project Number that has CUP and DPR in it?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have tried with this thing for hours and I can't get it to parse.
Trying to get last year so the expression should evaluate today as of "12/31/2014"
I looked all over on Google and couldn't find an expression to copy so I've been playing with it.
Here is what it is in SQL Server:
SELECT DATEADD(dd,-1,DATEADD(yy, DATEDIFF(yy,0,GETDATE()),0))
Absolutely could not get it to parse..even with DT tags, etc...
i have monthly csv files have been loading into tables and the files having columnn month names (e.g july) i need to write SSIS expression based on month column to get last day of the month like 31072015 some thing like below]
july 31072015
aug 31082015
sep 30092015
feb 28022016
I am trying to figure out my expression here with derived column
source
Unavailable/Planned
output
Planned(which is after "/".
I achieved this in sql but not finding solution in SSIS Derived column transformation.
I am very new to SSIS. I need a package to iterate through files in folders and subfolders, evaluate the date of the file and delete them if they are over 90 days. I am using the following as a guide. The reason I am not using a maintenance plan for this is that I did not see a way to use a built in maintenance plan task to copy files. I already built a package that copies files to the destination. Now I need to delete files in the destination that are over 90 days old.
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I have a File System Task to delete files. I have a Script Task with a precedence constraint where I need to build an expression on the constraint between the Script Task and the File System Task for the delete.
I have database backups in the format of SQLInstanceName_DatabaseName_BackupType_YYYYMMDD_XXXXXXX.bak.
I created a variable to store the filename and I need an expression that will convert a file name like :
MySQLInstance_MyDB_DIFF_20150803_1700000.bak into 20150803, compare it to getdate -90 days.
I created another variable for the Max File Age. I built the below but when I click on Evaluate Expression I get an error stating, "The expression might contain an invalid token, an incomplete token, or an invalid element."
DATEDIFF("dd",(DT_DATE)(SUBSTRING(RIGHT( @[User::strFileName], 20 ),1,8), GETDATE()) > @[User::intFileMaxAge]
How can i write expression for below input?
1858;# 1234;#Chun Yang
I want to display only name.
We have one package in production. variable var_date has an expression already defined to it. How can we overwrite this variable value from config file or from cmd file. We don't want to make changes to the package and redeploy it.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI need two ssis expressions from the same field
1. remove the 1st 5 characters from the field Service Name
2. take those 1st 5 characters and put them in a new field called Team.
I have a field 'IsActive' which is bit type either 1 or 0. And in my package, the conditional split must be set something like
IsActive==0
And throws exception that condition evaluated as NULL where Boolean was expected. How i can make this work?
I have one column CandidatePlaced (Data type Boolean).
Using data conversion i changed data type to DT_WSTR and then i used derived column to manipulate the data. Ex. 1 = "Yes" and 0 = "No"
[Candidate Placed ?] == "1" ? "Yes" : "No"
But at end of result i got all the columns as No. Some should be Yes.
I have a several servers that i want to pull data from.I put the connection string in a OBJECT variable that come from configuration table and use it in the for loop mapping the value to local variable called connectionstring, this variable is the expression for the connection string property.So far everything is working as expected.
my problem is that on my development i put my local server in the connection string variable so i will be able to connect to the server so i will be able to map source to destination.
When i deploy the solution to production the data in the configuration table is different obviously but i get a connection error that saying that it try to connect to my dev server.why?
I am trying to convert a string to date in a variable. But I am not able to do so. the string format is "2015-11-24".
I am also attaching a screenshot of the error ....
In Source, we have a column of datatype string(varchar/nvarchar).
Example:
col1
True
False
In Target we need to map the column which is of type binary. Binary column accepts only 1,0.
col1
1
0
how to achieve this? can this be done in derived column?
I have a Foreach loop container that I'm using to loop through a directory and copy files to a new directory. The file name contains the date and I need to compare the value to the current date to determine if the file should moved. I'm having a problem converting the string to a date.
I have a FileName variable of type string that is in this form: 200710221200_FileName_7001.log
I have a FileDate variable of type datetime that I'm trying to use the following expression on:
(DT_DBDATE)(SUBSTRING(@[User::FileName] , 1,4) +"-"+ SUBSTRING(@[User::FileName] , 5,2) +"-"+SUBSTRING( @[User::FileName] , 7,2))
Which is giving me the following error:
The expression "(DT_DBDATE)(SUBSTRING(@[User::FileName] , 1,4) +"-"+ SUBSTRING(@[User::FileName] , 5,2) +"-"+SUBSTRING( @[User::FileName] , 7,2))" has a result type of "DT_DBDATE", which cannot be converted to a supported type.
From the help files, it appears to me that the DT_DBDATE cast uses the form of yyyy-mm-dd. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
Wendy Schuman
I am using OLE DB source to extract data from Oracle. I have query (sample) like below, but SSIS is converting ID as Unicode String [DT_WSTR]. Why is that? and how to avoid this?
SELECT
1 AS ID
FROM
ORACLE_TABLE
I am using derived column to convert string data to datetime .My string data :
Start Date
15/06/2015
30/06/2015
NULL
2015/06/24
I wrote in derived column expression:
(DT_DATE)(SUBSTRING(([Start Date]),7,2) + "/" + SUBSTRING(([Start Date]),5,2) + "/" + SUBSTRING(([Start Date]),1,4))
which is giving error :
[Derived Column 1 [5452]] Error: The "component "Derived Column 1" (5452)" failed because error code 0xC0049064 occurred, and the error row disposition on "output column "Start Date" (5650)" specifies failure on error. An error occurred on the specified object of the specified component.
How to write the expression in derived column to handle null value as well.
How to derived string to date-time (dd/mm/yyyy)
Input Date :
Start Date
15/06/2015
30/06/2015
NULL
2015/06/24
Some date are in format dd/mm/yyyy I want to keep them as it is , but I want to convert the NULL one and 2015/06/24 to 24/06/2015.
I am reading a data source where all data in a given column is held as a string containing a percent value with 2 decimal points:
03.52%
12.32%
92.10%
80.05%
27.92%
100.00%
[...]
etc...
I need to convert these into decimal values with up to four decimal points, like this:
0.352
0.1232
0.9210
0.8005
0.2792
1.0000
I am trying to use the derived column editor but since I am fairly new to this, I am getting my wires crossed. c
1. Remove the % sign from the string -- not sure if I should use TRIM, or REPLACE
2. Divide the value by 100 -- but don't I need to do some sort of type casting first?
3. Do a cast to convert whatever I got into the correct decimals -- perhaps this isn't required if I did step 2 as a typecast to decimals already?
How can i perform this task with ssis OR TRANSACT SQL? I HAVE THESE ROWS WITH THE NEXT DATA, I want to take just the valid one, BUT I HAVE A LOT OF COMBINATIONS AS following names, it can be animals, things or personal names
GABRIEL OBANDO --CORRECT
GABRIEL OVANDO
Gavriel OVANDO
gAbriel OBANDO
GABRIE OBANDO
Gabri OBONDA
MANAGUA --CORRECT
NANAGUA
NAMAGUA
I have a column value as '201303' for the date. I need to get the output into two columns as 2013 and Mar. The date column is a integer one.
How can I convert this date column in a Data Convertion task.
I am trying to upload data from CSV to Sql table. I have a column as 'arrived_date' value '13:45' etc and while trying to load data i am getting error as "data conversion failed ,truncation may occur while loading data". In flat file connection this column datatype is string but in my table datatype is as time(). There is a error with conversion. I tried to change data type in advanced editor but no use. Using data conversion after flatfile makes my error disappear but it is giving error right at the file not even going through from file?
View 10 Replies View RelatedI have my SSIS package that reads elements from a Sharepoint list to a SQL table. The data type of my source is string and the destination is integer. The source column can sometimes be an empty string "" (not a required column)
Which expression to use and "where" or "what" SSIS component can I add this expression to? Like I know that I can use the "Conditional Split" to filter the data so for my expression which component can I use?
The below connection string works fine for windows authentication.
Data Source=Test123;Initial Catalog=Globe;Provider=SQLNCLI10.1;Integrated Security=SSPI;
what changes i should make in the above connection if i have sql server authentication mode?
In my source table, I have columns FirstName and LastName, both of datatype nvarchar. In my dataflow, I created two new derived columns mapped to these two columns. When pushing data to the source, I noticed that the FirstName column had a value of NULL while LastName was just an empty string (for rows that did not have any value).
My question is, why my source table column FirstName is showing a NULL value when the derived column datatype is string and the source is string? It should just be showing an empty string right?
I am trying to convert a string variable to integer in SSIS using the expression task.
@[User::Nummer] = (DT_I4) @[User::Name]
But I get an error that the conversion from (DT_WSTR) to (DT_I4) is not possible!!
I have create packages which loads the data from flat file to sql server table, now I want to make my destination table connection dynamic what is format of connection string. I also need to pass user name and password for sql server dynamically in this case, what is the format for the connection string.
Also in package i used ADO.net as source for *.mdb files how i can set the commection to .mdb files dynamically which is used as source in my package.
In my SSIS package I am using Foreach loopcontainer to load multiple flat files.
Now my requirement is that I want to load only those file which contains %vendor%.In source folder I have many files but I am interested in to load only those file which contains the string %vendor% in file name.
Hi All,
I want to build following code into expression builder . I don't know how to write that things into expression builder. so can you help me out from this problems.
1.Daily stock Inventory by stores " & FormatDateTime( date() , vbshortdate )
2. " Weekly stores Queue Productivity for " & date()-8
3.Customer Data Entry Monthly Report for stores " & Month( now()-27) & "/" & Year(now()-27)
4."Customer of stores " & FormatDateTime( now() , vbshortdate ) & " - stock"
5.customers opens account " & FormatDateTime( now() -8, vbshortdate ) & " (STOCK1)
Thanks
Aric
I am using SSIS 2012 SP1 to import a comma delimited csv file into a SQL table.
One of the fields carries a time value:
Source = textfile, column=DT_STR(8), value format = "hhmmss", e.g. "011525"
Destination = field in SQL table, data type = time(0)
To get it from the textfile to the SQL table I am:
1.) Creating a derived column called [d_Time of Entry]with the following formula -
SUBSTRING([Time of Entry],1,2) + ":" + SUBSTRING([Time of Entry],3,2) + ":" + SUBSTRING([Time of Entry],5,2)
2.) Performing a data conversion task to convert [d_Time of Entry] from DT_STR(8) to time(0) The upload fails because values that start with a zero, i.e. times before 10am, have their leading 0's stripped before being derived. You can see this because "011525" is derived as "11:52:5" when it should be "01:15:25".
I am downloading a webpage as a text file in order to read a specific string to assign it as a variable/parameter in order to create an output file name. I would like to know how would I be able to look for a specific string and output as another variable for the rest of the package.
2015 Conforming Loan Limits
------------------------------------------------------------------------
o _Loan Limits for Calendar Year 2015--All Counties _[XLS]
</DataTools/Downloads/Documents/Conforming-Loan-Limits/FullCountyLoanLimitList2015_HERA-BASED_FINAL_FLAT.xlsx>_ ,
_[PDF]
</DataTools/Downloads/Documents/Conforming-Loan-Limits/FullCountyLoanLimitList2015_HERA-BASED_FINAL.pdf>_
o _List of 46 Counties with Increases in Loan Limits for 2015
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To explain it a more better way, I have a sample webpage text here. I should be searching for "FullCountyLoanLimitList" appended by the current year (like FullCountyLoanLimitList2015) and copy the entire file name in the text file and assign it to another variable so that I can download that specific file using WebClient connection.