Loop Through All Text Files
May 11, 2008
Hi All
I have a situation in my SSIS Project where I have a folder in which contains 10 text files, what I need to do Loop through all these files and select the data from those text files and insert them in SQL Database table. I will be able to get the names of those file using For Each Loop Container but I don’t have idea how to insert the data in SQL table using for each loop container. I don’t want to use multiple data flow task. Any help will really appreciate
Many thanks
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Mar 13, 2008
In the For Loop, How to Iterate from Older flat files to Newer flat files based on File's Timestamp. If there are some older files in that folder, it should be processed first and then continue with the newer one.
Any Suggestions?
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Jul 11, 2007
Using SSIS foreach loop, I am looping through files to get the filenames and pass them on as variable.
How is it possible to loop through the files but only pass the files that do not end with ..._Parameters.xml? or loop through only the ones which end with ..._Parameters.xml
I think this is to do with the scripting or expression in the foreachloop?
Thanks
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Jul 14, 2006
I have text data files from a third party and they use comma as field delimiters and enclose the text for each column in double-quotes. Not a problem for most of the data files until they start sending files where there is " within the column values. SSIS package fails with the error:
The column delimiter for column "Column 1" was not found.
Any ideas on how to resolve this issue will be greatly appreciated.Thankspcp
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Feb 9, 2007
Hi - I'm new to SSIS and am having problems figuring out how to do the following.
I need to load data from flat files into SQLserver 2005 and have created the data flows ok, but my data files are *not* located in a single directory so I cannot use the foreach file enumerator option in the foreach loop container collection. Please correct me if I'm wrong?
My approach has been to execute a SQLcommand to get the filenames from another database table and to use the foreach ADO enumerator option and mapping the returned filenames to a project scoped variable (data type object since it is a rowset).
My problem comes when I edit the properties of the connection manager to try to use that variable for the connectionstring property in the expression editor. I get an error because the datatype of the variable is not supported in an expression.
Can anyone tell me how to correct this or outline another way to solve my problem?
thanks
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Oct 5, 2005
I'm having a problem getting the for loop container to process all excel files in a folder. I set the collection folder to where my .xls files are, and i set a variable in the for loop container to the FileName. I then changed my source connection and added expressions for
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May 24, 2007
All,
I have a package that loops over ~60 Excel files in a directory. Each
file has three named ranges in it, which I import into different
tables. Sometimes the package runs without a hitch, sometimes it
chokes. But it is intermittent.
If I pull the control flow components out of the foreach loop and
point the Excel connection manager to the specific Excel file that has
caused the package to choke, I get a message in the dataflow component
pointing to the named range that "the metadata of the following output
columns does not match the metadata of the external columns......Do
you want to replace the metadata of the output columns with the
metadata of the external columns?" When I choose 'yes', then the
file will be loaded. then I can put the control flow components back
into the foreach loop and the file will run again, successfully, along
with some more, until it chokes again....
So, first of all, does anyone have any insight into this? Sometimes,
somedays, these files will load with no problems. These exact files;
I am having to reload constantly... Other times, like today, it is a
battle.
Otherwise, is there a way to get Integration Svcs to handle the
metadata issue on the fly???
Any ideas, resources, references, war stories, or good clean jokes
would be appreciated,
Kathryn
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Jun 17, 2006
Hi,
My requirement is I have to read 2 sets of files from a folder. For example, I have to read all files starting with either 'a' or 'b' only. In 'Foreach Loop', if I say 'a*,b*', it is not working. Instead of comma (,), I tried colon, semi-colon and pipeline characters also. It is not working. So I am using 2 loops now. But I would like to know is there any way to do it using a single loop?
Thanks.
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Jan 8, 2008
In all of our extract packages, we use a foreach loop container to grab files from the 400 sitting out in a certain directory. For this particular package, we have specified the files should be named RP*.* We know there are several files out in the directory. The package runs without error and completes, but says no files were found in the directory with that name. What could be causing this issue? Thanks!
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Aug 23, 2007
Hi I am trying to load a bunch of excel files into a table and running into tables
I create a seq container--> add a foreach loop control task configure a variable thats ok as I am displaying the files names through script
I am stuck as how to configure the next data flow task to load into a destination
I create a source excel and then map the expression to the variable but the destination SQL connection is not able to see this one
Any ideas what I am doing wrong
Thanks
Po
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Jun 30, 2006
What I'm trying to achieve is a SSIS package that will pick up 1 or
more excel files, process the data in them via the conditional
splitter, pushing the good data into a table, and all other rows into
an error table.
I'm having some issues using the ForEach container to process multiple
excel spreadsheets into tables. The excel import into the tables is
more or less working (imports data for good cases, but uses a null if
the Excel Source when it gets an unexpected value - but that's a
seperate problem).
I found something related to this when searching, but it related to
CTPs (June and September) and trying to reuse the connection strings
they built up there (using my own variable names, naturally) causes a
'Property Value failure':
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The connection string format is not valid. It must consist of one or
more components of the form X=Y, separated by semicolons. This error
occurs when a connection string with zero components is set on database
connection manager.
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I attemtpted to use this:
"Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=" +
@[User::RankingFileFullPath] + ";Extended Properties="Excel
8.0;HDR=YES";"
The excel importer works fine as a stand-alone component. Trying to use
the process defined in 'Profession SQL Server Integration Services'
pp140, I tried to use an expression to assign the variable value to the
connection string. I get a validation error:
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Error at Import TPNB Ranking Excel spreadsheets [Excel Source [1]]: The
AcquireConnection method call to the connection manager "Excel
Connection Manager" failed with error code 0xC0202009.
Error at Import TPNB Ranking Excel spreadsheets [DTS.Pipeline]:
component "Excel Source" (1) failed validation and returned error code
0xC020801C.
Error at Import TPNB Ranking Excel spreadsheets [DTS.Pipeline]: One or more component failed validation.
Error at Import TPNB Ranking Excel spreadsheets: There were errors during task validation.
Error at Excel Importer [Connection manager "Excel Connection Manager"]: An OLE DB error has occurred. Error code: 0x80040E4D.
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Any advice?
....
.... in addition ....
I attempted to change the package - I set the Data Flow validation to
Delay Validation, and changed the expression to change from:
ConnectionString @[User::RankingFileFullPath]
to
ExcelFilePath @[User::RankingFileFullPath]
This allowed the package to start debugging, and gave more information in the failure:
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SSIS package "Excel Importer.dtsx" starting.
SSIS breakpoint 'Break when the container receives the OnPreExecute event' at executable 'Excel Importer' has been hit
SSIS breakpoint 'Break when the container receives the OnPreExecute event' at executable 'Foreach Loop Container' has been hit
SSIS breakpoint 'Break when the container receives the OnQueryCancel event' at executable 'Excel Importer' has been hit
Information: 0x4004300A at Import TPNB Ranking Excel spreadsheets, DTS.Pipeline: Validation phase is beginning.
Warning: 0x802092A7 at Import TPNB Ranking Excel spreadsheets,
ProductSalesRank Table [278]: Truncation may occur due to inserting
data from data flow column "Rank" with a length of 1000 to database
column "SalesRank" with a length of 50.
Error: 0xC0202009 at Excel Importer, Connection manager "Excel
Connection Manager": An OLE DB error has occurred. Error code:
0x80004005.
An OLE DB record is available. Source: "Microsoft JET Database
Engine" Hresult: 0x80004005 Description: "Unrecognized
database format 'D:TestingTestRanking.xls'.".
Error: 0xC020801C at Import TPNB Ranking Excel spreadsheets, Excel
Source [1]: The AcquireConnection method call to the connection manager
"Excel Connection Manager" failed with error code 0xC0202009.
Error: 0xC0047017 at Import TPNB Ranking Excel spreadsheets,
DTS.Pipeline: component "Excel Source" (1) failed validation and
returned error code 0xC020801C.
Error: 0xC004700C at Import TPNB Ranking Excel spreadsheets, DTS.Pipeline: One or more component failed validation.
Error: 0xC0024107 at Import TPNB Ranking Excel spreadsheets: There were errors during task validation.
SSIS breakpoint 'Break when the container receives the OnQueryCancel event' at executable 'Excel Importer' has been hit
Warning: 0x80019002 at Foreach Loop Container: The Execution method
succeeded, but the number of errors raised (5) reached the maximum
allowed (1); resulting in failure. This occurs when the number of
errors reaches the number specified in MaximumErrorCount. Change the
MaximumErrorCount or fix the errors.
SSIS breakpoint 'Break when the container receives the OnQueryCancel event' at executable 'Excel Importer' has been hit
SSIS breakpoint 'Break when the container receives the OnQueryCancel event' at executable 'Excel Importer' has been hit
SSIS breakpoint 'Break when the container receives the OnWarning event' at executable 'Excel Importer' has been hit
Warning: 0x80019002 at Excel Importer: The Execution method succeeded,
but the number of errors raised (5) reached the maximum allowed (1);
resulting in failure. This occurs when the number of errors reaches the
number specified in MaximumErrorCount. Change the MaximumErrorCount or
fix the errors.
SSIS breakpoint 'Break when the container receives the OnPostExecute event' at executable 'Excel Importer' has been hit
SSIS package "Excel Importer.dtsx" finished: Failure.
The program '[2460] Excel Importer.dtsx: DTS' has exited with code 0
(0x0).--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Jul 27, 2006
well i am trying to follow the example of msdn help on how to loop through excel files and it doesn't work. the variables have the project scope. what can i do?
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Dec 21, 2006
Hey guys,,
Well im new at this SSIS stuff and i have something that i am trying to do, but cannot get it to work.. Ill try to explain, and if anyone can help me or point me in the right direction it would be much appriciated..
I have 2 tables, one header table. and one lines table. This is a one - to -many relationship.. ie 1 header, many lines.. This is a Order Header, and Order Lines table setup.. Order header has Order numbers and and email address field that link to the lines table by order number. I also have a view which links all this info together.
I would like to export a excel file (preferable named from the order number column - but that can come later) for each order number in the header table. The excel file will contain the details from the View that was created. I want this to loop through all the header records in the header table and create a excel file for each one..
Down the track i want to add a send mail task to this and pass the email address to a variable so i can use it in the send mail task.. But ill get the main part working first..
Anyhelp would be more than helpful.. I tried to set this up, but i am stuck on the enumerator part..
thanks again, scotty
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Feb 9, 2007
Hello,
I currently have a For Each File container that loops through all files from a specific directory. The files have a naming convention that looks like this;
CDNSC.CDNSC.SC00015.01012007
The last segment of the file name is the date of the data in the file (mmddyyyy). The create date for these files is always a day later than indicated in the file name.
What I would like to do is to have more control over the 'range' of files that are looped through by using the date portion of the file name to define what group of files should be looped through. Ideally, I would like to have a 'StartDate' variable and an 'EndDate' variable that I could define at run time for the package, and the package would loop through all of the files where the date portion of the file name fell between 'StartDate' and 'EndDate'.
Any ideas on this?
Thank you for your help!
cdun2
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Feb 23, 2008
ummm. sorry, I've read and seen the tutorials but somehow and missing this.
I have a foreach container. Inside a dataflow task, with an XML source, a data conversion (cause of urrr UNICODE) and and an ole DB data source.
By design (and for this simple example), I get a volation if I attempt to load loads with out deleting entries from my table. No biggie, I would just like this simple package to rename my file to extension .good or .bad depending on success of each loop.
Where and what do I need for this?
Thank you for any help or information!
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Feb 27, 2008
Hi all,
I'm trying to capture the file name and insert to the Database with Loop Container and Execute Sql task...However when I run, I get error with the input parameter.
In my Sql Task, the parameter mapping:
Variable name: user::variable,
direction: input,
Data Type: Varchar,
parameter name: @xVariable,
parameter size: -1
connectiontype: OleDB
sourcetype: direct input
statement : insert into xtable(xcolumn) values(@xVariable)
Anyone have any other suggestion how to capture the filename and input in the database?
thanks
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Aug 12, 2015
I’ve created a script which will do the following.
Update fields in a database which contain instances of an order number. An order number is defined as a 10 digit numeric sting which beings with 998. The first 3 digits of the order number need to change from 998 to 999. There are two types of fields to update: document number fields which may contain 1 instance of the order number and free text fields which may contain multiple instances of an order number.
I created a function which accepts the text to be updated, the text to find and the text to replace it with. The function then loops through the sting for instances of 998. For each instance it finds it checks to ensure that it is at the start of a 10 digit string which contains only numeric numbers – if this is the case then it will update the 998 to be 999.
If the field is free text then it will continue to loop through the string (it will skip forward 10 digits for every order number found) until the end. If the field is not free text then it will exit the script after the first instance found which matches the above criteria, if any.
Need achieving this via set processing and not having to loop through every line. I’ve included the function below and some test data.
--Create the function we will call in order to do the replace
if object_id(N'OrderReplace',N'FN') is not null
drop function dbo.OrderReplace;
go
create function dbo.OrderReplace (
@Textnvarchar(4000),
[code]....
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Aug 17, 2015
I have to load on SS2012 hundeds of excel files produced by an application over the last five years, during time few columns have been added to the initial set.I created on SS2012 a table to match with the full set of columns and want to load all the files inside the table leaving the missing cells to NULL. I think SSIS can do the job but every trial failed do far.
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Sep 17, 2015
I use a ForEach Loop Container in a ssis Package. The package has to look up in the directory 'f:ackups' for backupfiles and copy them into another folder.In my development environment it works fine. But if I run it on the SQL-Server with the SQL-Server Agent, the package logs always that the folder ist empty.Unfortunately the message is always 'empty folder' even if I define 'f:labla' as folder that actually not exists!
As filespecification I tried both *.* and *.bak .My assumption is, that the SQL-Server agent has not enough rights for that folder. But on the other side the agent is able to create backup-files in this folder.The SQL-Server Agent works under netservice control.
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Oct 28, 2015
I have a requirement to load multiple flat files in target table .
I have created the package which used to load files into target table using For each loop container.
But now requirement has been changed now I have to take only those files from table where status="Success" and max JobId. By the query I am to get those records which need to load into table.
Below query I am using to get the files which need to load.
select [JobLogKey],[SrcNm],[DestNm]
FROM [ConfigRep].[dbo].[JobLog]
Where [JobId]=
(Select Max(cast([JobId] as Int)) Jobid
FROM [ConfigRep].[dbo].[JobLog]
Where [JobStat]='Success')
Output:-
JobLogKey SrcNm  DestNm
268 H:Data PlatformSource FileClient2LocHGSSpecLocation.txt Location.txt
269 H:Data PlatformSource FileClient1LocHGSSpecLocation.txt Location.txt
I have to load using above 2 files which are under SrcNm. I have created one variable called FileToLoad as Object and mapping to result set of above query. I have create JobId,SrcNm and DestNm variable to catch the record at every loop. I have  created 2 For each Loop containerÂ
Below screen shot of outer Foreach loop. Till here Its working fine. Inner for each loop container not executing any task under that. How to get it done.
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Oct 24, 2007
I am getting the following error when trying to load multiple excel files using for each loop container in SSIS, I tried to put the quotes in several different ways but still can't get rid of this error. I was able to successfully load single excel file, but when I use the for each loop container that's when I am having problems. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thx.
TITLE: Package Validation Error
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Package Validation Error
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Error at Package1 [Connection manager "SourceConnectionExcel"]: The connection string components cannot contain unquoted semicolons. If the value must contain a semicolon, enclose the entire value in quotes. This error occurs when values in the connection string contain unquoted semicolons, such as the InitialCatalog property.
Error at Package1: The result of the expression ""Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=" + @[User::Folder] + @[User::file] + ";Extended Properties="Excel 8.0;HDR=NO";"
" on property "ExcelFilePath" cannot be written to the property. The expression was evaluated, but cannot be set on the property.
(Microsoft.DataTransformationServices.VsIntegration)
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BUTTONS:
OK
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Sep 3, 2007
Hi gurus,
I've created a linked server (and set up the corresponding schema.ini file) in order to perform bulk-inserts from some CSV text files into SQL tables (from my standpoint the text files are just for reading purposes). The linked server works fine (I can select the data in the files without a problem).
Now the question: is possible to automatically detect when one or more of those files change in order to start the import process automatically? Something like having a trigger created on the CSV files Or there's no easy way to do that so I have, to say something, to create a Job that periodically checks if the files have changed programatically (say, recording each file's timestamp everytime is imported and comparing the recorded value with the current one, or whatever)?
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Hi,
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some thing like Code.txt
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How do you sort files from the Foreach loop container?
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Hi,
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Hi ppl,
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