Hello,
I am using the lookup transformation. I made a change on reference view, but I can't seem to get the transformation to recognize the fact that the underlying table has changed.
Is this possible? Surely you don't have to redo the entire lookup task in order to caputre a new column that is added onto a table / view.
Chris
I keep getting the following error in SSIS. Also, I don't get the error on every server the package is run on, but less than 5 (the package is run on over 100).
"The external metadata column collection is out of synchronization with the data source columns. The column "Timestamp" needs to be added to the external metadata column collection"
Please tell me where I need to remove Timestamp from. Thanks
-Kyle
Hi,
is there a way to start validation of external metadata manual?
My problem is this:
The package uses a variable as connectionstring for flatfile source, and another variable for the destination table. Running the package gives a warning about external metadata that needs to be updated. Normally I update this data by just opening the data flow, and answering the question for updating with yes. This time that deosnt work, I think because the variable is not set, so there can not be any conflicts with external metadata.
I dont want do disable validation, but just validate one time and then save the package.
Any ideas?
Regards,
Jan
I keep getting the following error in SSIS. Also, I don't get the error on every server the package is run on, but less than 5 (the package is run on over 100).
"The external metadata column collection is out of synchronization with the data source columns. The column "Timestamp" needs to be added to the external metadata column collection"
Please tell me where I need to remove Timestamp from. Thanks
-Kyle
Hi,
I have an Excel file source. I keep getting this error when running the package:
"The external metadata column collection is out of synchronization with the data source columns. The column "x" needs to be updated in the external metadata column collection."
When I get this error with regular flat files, it's because I've changed the data type of a given column in the flat file connection manager. And I resolve it simply by double-clicking on the flat file source task, and viola - it corrects it for me.
How do I correct this with an Excel file? Help.
Thanks
We have a Main package and which is calling 2 more other packages.
The first package contains a connection and we are using a Dataflow task. The data flow task has OleDB Data source which is taking getting columns using a Stored Procedure. And the output we need to write in a Flat File.
The second Package also contains the same(The same Tasks, Database and Stored Procedure Calling)
The difference is in the stored procedure Parameters. Based on the different parameters Stored procedures returns the different Columns and Rows output.
When we are trying to Get the second package output in OleDb Data source it shows all the columns which is the output of the First Package because it stores External Meta Data.
So My understanding is the Connection to the same database keeps the External metadata information with the connection and because of that it is always getting the same output columns in Ole DB Data source task in the second Package also.
How to Get my correct output from the second package in this case?
Or If we dont want to store external Meta data with the Connection then is that possible? If yes then How?
Thanks in advance.
I have an XML file that my XML Source component is accessing. I have noticed that is possible to set a column in the external metadata collection to a certain datatype and the matching output column to a different datatype and this doesn't not generate a warning like it does with other source components (e.g. Flat File Source Adapter).
Try it. Set a column in your external metadata to have a datatype of DT_WSTR. Set the matching output column to DT_UI8. You will NOT get a validation error. I think you should.
This behaviour was noticed on RTM (i.e. no service pack installed) by the way.
I think this is a bug. Anyone agree?
-Jamie
Hello,
I'm working on a custom dataflow destination component. It makes use of the External Metadata Collection. I also use Custom Properties with the external metadata collection.
When I open the destination component using the Advanced Editor, and select an External Metadata Collection and change the Custom Property it always changes back to the original value.
Additionally the method SetExternalMetadataColumnProperty never gets called.
Here is a little Test Component that surfaces the problem:
[DtsPipelineComponent(ComponentType=ComponentType.DestinationAdapter, DisplayName="Test Destination")]
public class Class1 : PipelineComponent
{
public override void ProvideComponentProperties()
{
base.ProvideComponentProperties();
ComponentMetaData.InputCollection.RemoveAll();
IDTSInput90 input = ComponentMetaData.InputCollection.New();
input.Name = "Name";
input.ExternalMetadataColumnCollection.IsUsed = true;
IDTSExternalMetadataColumn90 ext = input.ExternalMetadataColumnCollection.New();
ext.Name = "ExtName";
IDTSCustomProperty90 customProp = ext.CustomPropertyCollection.New();
customProp.Name = "Custom Property";
customProp.Value = "Hallo";
}
public override IDTSCustomProperty90 SetExternalMetadataColumnProperty(int iID, int iExternalMetadataColumnID, string strPropertyName, object oValue)
{
return base.SetExternalMetadataColumnProperty(iID, iExternalMetadataColumnID, strPropertyName, oValue);
}
}
Any ideas how to make that work?
Georg
Hello,
I have a SSIS package with a Data Flow task. This task transfers the data from SQL Server 2000 to a table in SQL Server 2005.
I deployed and tested this package on the Test Server. Then put this package in a job and executed it - Works fine.
On the production server- If I execute the package through DTEXECUI, it works fine. But when I try executing it through a job- the job fails and it gives me following error:
Description: The external metadata column collection is out of synchronization with the data source columns. The "external metadata column "T_FieldName" (82)" needs to be removed from the external metadata column collection....
What I don't understand is, why are there no errors displayed when I execute the package through DTEXECUI.
Can anyone help me to resolve this issue.
Thanks.
Hi,
I worked with informatica before and bit new to SSIS,
i have one simple question..
How can i achieve the same functionality as External Procedure Transformation (Informatica) in SSIS?
like..i want to use a DLL in my package which contains some set of business rules.
Please let me know.
Charles
Hi All,
I am doing something really simple and it doesnt work, may be I am missing something, What I am trying to accomplish is to load a fact table using lookup transaformation, however my source data was different from the data in my dimension (or the datatype ) I had to use a data conversion task before my lookup , so the data flow is something like this source -> Data Conversion -> Lookup -> destination , I am getting an error at my lookup task where it says the "[Lookup [82]] Error: Row yielded no match during lookup". and then it just fails. I know for sure that there has to be matching data. donno what is it that I am missing.
Thanks
Is there a way to ignore the unmatched rows using Lookup without creating another destination (Error Transformation for red connector)?
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I am totally new to SSIS.
I need an example of how to use a Lookup transformation. Basd on that i need to lookup for some recs and delete records from transaction table. I have used the Execute SQL task for this and i am able to achive my requirement. But now i am using XML configurations for Connection Managers and for that very reason i dont want to hard code the catalog names(database names) inside my Execute SQL task.
Can any one suggest me how to do the same using a Lookup transformation or any other.
Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
Thank Q,
priya
Hi,
I have a Dataflow task which loads data from a flat file to a Fact table named Inventory , doing a dimensional Key lookup with DIMStores - which is the dimension table for stores information.
If I have some rows in the flatfile whose 'Store' column doesnt have a corresponsing key in the DIMStores table, I want to insert all these stores in to DIMStores table and then update the Inventory table accordingly ..
Any idea how do to this ?
Thanks in Advance,
Sun
I have a question based on Lookup Transformation component. If using Lookup component, the data cannot be NULL for available columns mapping. How about I want to keep the NULL value like outer join instead of inner join? Is there any way to do since I have several Lookup components inside of my dataflow?
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I'm trying to perform a lookup transformation. But the deal is, I have this one value that I am passing into the transformation, but I would like to gather all values that match the value I put in....does the lookup transformation do this? I tried it, and it appears as if it only returns one value for the one input. After the lookup, I have an access OLE DB destination setup...so I can capture all those values that corresponds to that one value I passed into the lookup. Does anyone have any ideas on how I can go about this?
Thanks!
I have a question. I'm using a lookup table which contains descriptions for a field from one of my tables. I have added a lookup query that looks like this:
SELECT STORE_DESRIP, BANNER, STORE_ID
FROM `stores.txt`
WHERE (STORE_ID = ?)
My main table (stagging) contains the store_id field. What I want to do is populate my destination fields (Store_descriptin and Banner) from the lookup table, based on the Store_id. I have written an ActiveX script that looks like this:
Function Main()
DTSDestination("Store_id") = DTSSource("store_id")
DTSDestination("Store_description") = DTSLookup("storelookup").Execute(DTSSource("store_ id")).value
Main = DTSTransformStat_OK
End Function
I receive an error when I try to test this script. It complains about line 8, which is the line that contains the DTSLookup function. Does anyone have any ideas what I'm doing wrong?
The process I see here is that when it comes to populating the "Store_description" field is will look the lookup table and based on the store_id, pass the description back. I would also like to add another destination field into this script, but won't until I resolve this.
Thanks for yoour support.
Hello,
I have a table like this:
Customer
Group
A
10
B
20
I need to do a translation of "group" to €ślocal group€?:
Customer
Group
Local Group
A
10
11
B
20
21
When a match is found, the group code should be replaced by the local group code ... but, when no match is found the group code should stay.
Is there any way to do this using Lookup ? I tried but when you set the error output to ignore it replaces the value that has no match with a NULL value. Maybe there is another way to get this done with or without the lookup component ?
I have a lookup transformation that retrieves a key for a certain column of values, in this case, a name. So, I go in to the lookup table with a name and come out with its key. I had it working and then I added new entries to the lookup table for a bunch of new names. Now, for some reason, I am not getting the matches for the new names. But I am still getting the matches for the names that existed before I added the new ones.
I'm wondering if the lookup transformation is using the old set of data and some how not picking up the new names. Do I have to trigger something in the lookup transformation to let it know that the lookup table data has changed?
Hello all,
I needed to lookup some table values based on a join of two fields...
I've configured the lookup transform to get the values via a SQL statement to minimize loading time.
However, when creating the relationships between the input columns and the lookup columns I receive following error:
input column [BATCH_ID] has a datatype which cannot be joined on
I've checked both input and lookup columns, both are of type DT_R8... Both columns in the different tables do have the same datatypes
Any idea how to solve this problem??
Thanks in advance
How to compare NULL to NULL in Lookup transformation?
I have a column (key) that has NULL value
and In my look up table, i assign NULL to -1, so i can get -1 when I join key to CD ( in lookup) ...
Num CD
-1 NULL
1 12
2 56
but when i run my package I keep getting no matching record.. i thnk it;s because of NULL value...
how can I resolve this?
I've been going round in circles trying to understand what design I should use for a particular transformation/lookup problem I have. Would appreciate a few pointers.
On the data flow, I can create the data source easily with a SQL Query that returns 4 columns...
eg. myDb.dbo.Table1
Col1,
Col2,
Col3,
Col4
The end result at the Destination is:-
myDb.dbo.Table2
Col1,
Col5
Table1.Col1 maps directly to Table2.Col1 -- easy
Table2.Col5 is a result of a lookup query to different tables in the same db based on the value of Table1.Col1, Table1.Col2 & Table1.Col3.
I've already had problems with the Lookup component that forced me to give up using it because it wouldn't adequately support parameters. I was forced to use the Script component instead. However, this problem is a bit different because I don't need to try and reference variables as parameters and, instead, I need to use the values from the source query (Col1, Col2 & Col3).
Suggestions?
Thanks in advance,
Clive
Hi,
There is one data flow task in the package. I have a column in the input set called "ID". The total number of rows in the input set is > 50000.
There is one table in the database which has the description for all the IDs. I need to get the "Description" value from the database for each row. The table contains nearly 12 lack records.
For that I am using lookup transformation. In lookup, I specified the query and column mapping and I got the new column "Description".
Here is the problem.
while running the package, the lookup is getting all the 12 lack rows from table and then it is matching the rows.
It is taking huge time.
Can any one suggest me how to improve the performance of this situation?
Thanks in advance.
Hi all
when using advanced tab in lookup transformation ?, for whatany suggest i will be appreciated , thanks in advance
Hi,
I just wanted to know if there is any way to Allow Null values while doing a lookup on a table in SSIS.
Let me elaborate the situation...
I have a flat file source that has a field called 'code'. I want to lookup in a code table to see if the code in the file is a valid code but the flat file may contain a NULL value as a 'code' (i.e. zero length string which treated as NULL by my package).
My problem is, the SSIS package tries to search for the NULL in the table and the lookup fails and an error is logged as per the business logic but actually NULL is also an acceptable value and the error should not be logged.
I tried inserting a NULL value in the lookup column but that doesn't work. I am not sure but I think I have read somewhere that two null values cannot be compared for equality. I cannot use conditional split to check the null value because I have to use a large number of lookups and a conditional split everywhere will mess up the things.
Is there any way to solve this problem?
I have the following query:
SELECT EMPID,EMPNAME from EMPLOYEE
where EMPID = (SELECT MAX(EMPID) from EMPLOYEE group by EMPNAME,insert_date)
Here one can use above query in Dataflow of SSIS and specify SQL to create temporary table and later can use as lookup to join to other table.
Is there any way in SSIS to directly do the MAX of EMPID in lookup and join to the main source table.
Any help is really appreciated.
Thanks.
I may have misunderstood how Lookupu works because it's not doing what I want.
From the OLTP datasource I have a long list of revenue items (from a SQL server database). I want to assign these to specific accounts as they are transferred into our accounting system. I have another table with a list of words to search for and which account they belong to.
For example if the OLTP source might be
Description - Amount
"Sales of cars"- "$20,000"
"Motorcycle sales" - "$15,000"
"Bike rentals" - "$2,000"
The account lookup table is like
Wordsearch - Account
"sale" - "ACCT_SAL"
"rental" - "ACCT_RENT"
So by looking up whether "wordsearch" is found in "desription" I should get an output of
ACCT_SAL - $20,000
ACCT_SAL - $15,000
ACCT_RENT - $2,000
Back in DTS I did this with an array and "If Instr" using VBScript in the Data Transformation Task. I'm sure there must be something in SSIS to do this - it should be something like a Fuzzy Lookup ?, but I'm drifting toward Script Component. Anyone got any ideas for SSIS
Hi,
Here is my problem for a lookup transformation:
I have an input flow with dates and fields like this :
ID BEGINNING_DATE ENDING_DATE
1 12/01/2006 12/16/2006
and a reference table like this:
ID PRICE BEGINNING_PRICE_DATE ENDING_PRICE_DATE
1 400 11/28/2006 12/03/2006
1 500 12/03/2006 12/06/2006
1 600 12/06/2006 12/09/2006
I have to get the intersection periods between the two tables joining on ID. I would like to have this result flow :
ID BEGINNING_DATE ENDING_DATE PRICE
1 12/01/2006 12/03/2006 400
1 12/03/2006 12/06/2006 500
1 12/06/2006 12/09/2006 600
I'm using a lookup transformation and modifying the SQL instruction in advanced tab like this:
select *
from
(select * from [dbo].[Price]) as refTable
where [refTable].[ID] = ?
and (? between [refTable].[BEGINNING_PRICE_DATE] and [refTable].[ENDING_PRICE_DATE]
or ? between [refTable].[BEGINNING_PRICE_DATE] and [refTable].[ENDING_PRICE_DATE]
or ([refTable].[BEGINNING_PRICE_DATE] between ? and ?
and [refTable].[ENDING_PRICE_DATE] between ? and ?))
In that case I have to define 7 parameters:
ID : parameter0
BEGINNING_DATE : parameter1, parameter3, parameter5
ENDING_DATE : parameter2, parameter4, parameter6
My problem is that the transformation looks for only one matching element and outputs 0 or 1 row per input row... In that case the 3 rows of my lookup table are matching with the row in my input table, but I have only the first one.
How could I do to resolve my problem?
Thanks... I hope it's clear...
Arnaud.
I used to use Lookup Transformation for my SSIS, now I am having problem and cannot find the problem. I have my source table, one lookup to join source column to my lookup column as L1. I then have another lookup to join L1 to L2, and will show L2. It seems not working. I used to have source to join several lookup and get different Li, not this one. Any help?
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Has anyone else noticed this? I want to be able to use a paremter in my reference table of my Lookup Transformation. I couldn't find any way for the dialog to accept SQL with a parameter so I checked on MSDN How to: Implement a Lookup Using the Lookup Transformation and sure enough in the article is says to click on the Parameter button. I don't have a Parameters button on this dialog. Error? Is this possible?
6. In the Lookup Transformation Editor, on the Reference Table tab, select a connection manager in the Connection manager list, and then do one of the following:
Click Use a table or a view, and then select either a data source view, a data source reference, or an OLE DB connection manager.
Click Use results of an SQL query, and then build a query in the SQL Command window, or click Build Query to build a query using the graphical tools that the Query Builder provides. Alternatively, click Browse to import an SQL statement from a file.
If the query includes parameters, click Parameters to map parameters to variables. For more information, see How to: Map Query Parameters to Variables in Data Flow Components.
To validate the SQL query, click Parse Query.
To view a sample of the data that the query returns, click Preview.
I found that sometimes when the cache is filled up, the performance drops significantly. Anyone knows the caching strategy behind the Lookup Transformation?
If it's LRU or FIFO for example, I may have to sort the input based on FK to get better performance.
If it's frequency based then sort might not help.
Cheers,
Hi,
I have to perform a lookup in a table based on a query like:
"... where ? = [RefTable].fieldID and ? between [RefTable].AnotherFieldValue and [RefTable].AThirdFieldValue"
So, SSIS has put the CacheType to none. As I really need to speed up the job I want to set the CacheType to partial (full isn't an option due to the custom query I use here).
But here it comes: when using partial CacheType, one has to set the cache size manually - and I really don't know what value I should assign to it - is there a guideline on this topic?
I work on a Win2003 server platform with sql server 2005 - 2 processors - 2Gb Ram - enough disc space
Thanks in advance,
Tom
Hi,
I am trying to use a lookup in a package and check for some conditions. On the advanced tab, I am trying to modify the condition from = to <=. But the same doesnt work when the target is on oracle, but the same works fine on SQL Server and DB2.
Any idea regarding the same?
Thanks,
Manish Singh