I have a column going into a merge DT_WSTR length 50 on both(left/right) sides, yet when viewing the resulting output metadata, the length is 16. (I am viewing the metadata by clicking on the arrows)
This is obviously wrong.
NB originally the length was not set to this. As an attempt to try and fix the problem, I have added a placeholder column before all of my conditional splits of str50 type.
Why is it doing this?
This is causing my 0xC02020C1 error, I am convinced of it.
One of the errors has now gone away but the other two merges still have the error.
SSIS seems to assume that you will make no mistakes and will never want to go back and change anything, woe betide you if you have to go back and alter it later.
I have also noticed that certain (other) errors go away merely by opening and closing the tasks. Shocking.
At a client site we just had a customer away on holidays, came back and went to replicate and received the error. I understand why this would happen after the default 14 days, and the obvious fix to prevent it from happening in the future is to extend the period, however I am hoping someone can offer me assistance on the best way to correct the issue now
Error is:
The Merge Agent failed after detecting that retention-based metadata cleanup has deleted metadata at the Publisher for changes not yet sent to the Subscriber. You must reinitialize the subscription (without upload).
The problem is we cannot lose the data that has been entered on this machine since the last replication. Writing scripts to manually save and pump this data will take days if not weeks (complex database). Is there any way to issue a command to cause a manual upload of the new information that is at the subscriber. Then I could just delete and recreate replication?
I have a dataflow with a bunch of conditional splits.
Following this, a column is added to indicate the path taken by the data on each of the new split paths. (DT_WSTR length=50)
The data is then merged.
Or not.
I am now getting the following error on three of the Merges with seemingly no way of solving it:
Error: 0xC02020C1 at DF Data Cleansing and Deal Inserts and DealRole, MRG 3 [55818]: The metadata for "input column "Flowchart Path Status" (55961)" does not match the metadata for the associated output column.
Google reveals nothing, BOL reveals nothing.
Any takers?
I have been in to each of the tasks, opened, closed to try and get round any dodgy caching.
I can see the column in the metadata of the previous tasks.
I don't understand how it is possible to set the metadata of the output column on a merge.
There is no advanced editor, it just seems to take the datatype of each of the merge1, merge2 columns. (Am assuming it errors if these are not the same for a given column) I have rechecked the datatype of the column being added.
It shows up fine in the Merge editor as a selectable column.
I'm trying delete metadata of a sql 2005 sp1 subscriber from a sql 2005 sp1 merge publication, but is not working, the "retention" parameter for the publication is 999 and this is the code I'm using:
I did check "sp_mergemetadataretentioncleanup " and I note that is using a function to calculate the limit date, but I could not testing because it give me the below error :
declare @curdate datetime, @cutoffdate datetime
select @curdate = getdate()
select @cutoffdate = null
-- find max retention of all pubs the article belongs to.
-- add some safety margin to compensate for different clock speeds
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Server: Msg 208, Level 16, State 1, Procedure upd_3E6DE124B82D42A5AEB169557C0D757C, Line 60 Invalid object name 'ctsv_3E6DE124B82D42A5AEB169557C0D757C'.
Any ideas, what has gone wrong????
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The DATEDIFF(s, time1, time2) function output is of the 'datetime' datatype. How can I alter the 'datetime' to 'int' (or 'bigint') datatype to make it compatible with other variables in my calculations?
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added to the new table.
Any pointers would be greatly appreciated. Thanks much in advance.
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Hisuppose that I have a set named 'my_set' wich contain'aaa','bbb','ccc'and I want to alter with an sql command the structure to get 'ddd' inaddition. How can I do that?
I'm wondering if an idea I'm playing with is feasible and if so, how you would recommend implementing it.
Let's say I have a Dictionary table, 2 columns:
Word | Definition
And I have a string - "The cat sat on the dog"
If there's a definition for "cat" in the dictionary table, I want to alter the string so it becomes "The >>cat<< sat on the dog"
At the same time, if there's also a definition for "dog" then my string now becomes "The >>Cat<< sat on the >>Dog<<"
The idea being that when I manipulate the data in my ASP I can replace() the >><< with specific HTML code. (I'm trying to recreate the "in text" advertising thing that lots of people seem to be using - but not doing adverts, just information for our users - Someone hovers over a highlighted word, and with a little bit of Ajax, I can pull the definition out...
I'm not sure (but I'm suspecting) that it would make more sense to do this as I'm storing the string in a table, rather than as I'm pulling it out ready for use (don't want to be slowing my end users down )
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Within an SSIS Package, we are trying to change the connection string of an output file connection manager at runtime (used for package logging).
To do this, we have defined variables with package-level scope and set the connection manager connection string to this variable. The first step of the package is to set these variables. The second step begins the rest of the package operations (moving data). The package executes successfully, but the log file is never created/appended to.
When the package is debugged, I can verify that the variables are being set correctly in the script task and that the variable values are being passed to the connection manager data sources.
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