Hello Everyone.
I am a bit new to SQL Server but not to DBA or programming per se. I am having difficulties getting either an Excel or Text flat file to import properly.
I guess it would be best to ask, using either SSIS or BULK INSERT, what options need to be entered for a typical excel flat file?
I'm trying to input a few thousand flat files into a few thousand tables in a sql databaseim using integration services with a for each loop to read all the files in a directorythe problem is i can only insert the data from all the files into one tabledoes anyone know a way to do multiple tables? maybe using some sort of variable?
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im using a for each loop to read all the files in a directory
the problem is i can only insert the data from all the files into one table
does anyone know a way to do multiple tables? maybe using some sort of variable?
How do I automate importing "All Text Flat Files" into a SQL 7 table. The key is that there is no validation neccessary for the data and I do not want to manually import the data. I just to delimited the data and import it using either a script or a schedular of some type that can do it for me. Some Please Help
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I'm just learning SSIS. As I was following the tutorial on foreach loop container (lesson 2) to export multiple flat files in creating a simple ETL package in SSIS, I get the following error:
SSIS package "Take17.dtsx" starting.
Information: 0x4004300A at Extract Cobra EBA, DTS.Pipeline: Validation phase is beginning.
Information: 0x4004300A at Extract Cobra EBA, DTS.Pipeline: Validation phase is beginning.
Information: 0x40043006 at Extract Cobra EBA, DTS.Pipeline: Prepare for Execute phase is beginning.
Information: 0x40043007 at Extract Cobra EBA, DTS.Pipeline: Pre-Execute phase is beginning.
Information: 0x402090DC at Extract Cobra EBA, Cobra EBA [1]: The processing of file "" has started.
Warning: 0x80070003 at Extract Cobra EBA, Cobra EBA [1]: The system cannot find the path specified.
Error: 0xC020200E at Extract Cobra EBA, Cobra EBA [1]: Cannot open the datafile "".
Error: 0xC004701A at Extract Cobra EBA, DTS.Pipeline: component "Cobra EBA" (1) failed the pre-execute phase and returned error code 0xC020200E.
Information: 0x402090DD at Extract Cobra EBA, Cobra EBA [1]: The processing of file "" has ended.
Information: 0x40043009 at Extract Cobra EBA, DTS.Pipeline: Cleanup phase is beginning.
Information: 0x4004300B at Extract Cobra EBA, DTS.Pipeline: "component "OLE DB Destination" (194)" wrote 0 rows.
Task failed: Extract Cobra EBA
Warning: 0x80019002 at Take17: SSIS Warning Code DTS_W_MAXIMUMERRORCOUNTREACHED. The Execution method succeeded, but the number of errors raised (2) 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 package "Take17.dtsx" finished: Failure.
I spent some time in understanding where could be the error. I traced it to the following place. If you take a look at the Lesson#2 in creating a simple ETL package in SSIS, using foreach loop container to import files into SQL server, as soon as I finish going through steps in configuring the file connection manager to use the variable for connectionstring, it immediately disappears. I repeated the tutorial three times exactly as I pointed out and when I reach to this step of configuring file connection manager for connectionstring, it takes the path and when I start debugging it, I get this error. When I go and check if everything is Ok, the connectionstring value is empty.
Why the value in connectionstring disappears?
Thank you.
Nagu
I have a couple of hundred flat files to import into database tables using SSIS.
The files can be divided into groups by the format they use. I understand that I could import each group of files that have a common format at the same time using a Foreach Loop Container.
However, the example for the Foreach Loop Container has multiple files all being imported into the same database table. In my case, each file needs to be imported into a different database table.
Is it possible to import each set of files with the same format into different tables in a simple loop? I can't see a way to make a Data Flow Destination item accept its table name dynamically, which seems to prevent me doing this.
I suppose I could make a different Data Flow Destination item for each file, in the Data Flow. Would that be a reasonable solution, or is there a simpler solution, or should I just resign myself to making a separate Data Flow for every single file?
I have large flat files that I need to import using DTS. The record counts are between 500,000 and 3000,000. Or, 16 to 116 MB. When creating the DTS package I need to use to import, the wizard is haulting at the point where I should place the fixed points for the fields. I thinks it is because, the wizard will only recognize excel or text files. I cannot save these files as either txt or xls, because of their size. does anybody have any suggestions?
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i have Used a Dataflow task which has a flat file source task . i need help to get the data from that into the table
Table field1 field2 field3 field4 field5 field6
@Variable
File Col0 Col1 Col2 Col3 Col4
can anyone explain how i can achieve thsi
Hi,
i need to import a fixed with text file into several tables in SQL 2005.
The file contains records that should go inte different tables and i would like to know the order of the design..
I also get some errors when trying to convert the text to unicode, even with the derviced column data flow task..?
flat file source -> Data conversation/Derived column -> aggregate?
I have not found the way of importing the file into several different tables in the DB.
Thanks for suggestions..
Regards,
Daniel
I have a flat file data source - call it "order". Its a text file that looks something like this:
ORDERNAME| Example1
CUSTOMER|Acme Industries
COST|11611
ITEMS
B1|550S162-43(33)|35.708|1|636
T1|550S162-43(33)|20.967|1|636
T2|550S162-43(33)|20.967|1|636
W1|350S162-43(33)|1.330|2|501
W21|350S162-43(33)|1.330|1|911
W2|350S162-43(33)|3.044|2|501
W20|350S162-43(33)|3.044|1|911
I would like to write the metadata to a [order header] table and the ITEMS to a [order detail] table. Can someone direct me to a example of something similar?
Hi,
I have a flatfile which is of the following format. I want to import this data into the sql server 2005 database.
The alphabets at the start of each line represents the type of record. The data are position specific.
XYZQ20214646001V0608
A1249220AUGPSEA D11I0000
BCA030552050000C1234567841234412000
CFO093441050000C0895632175223652000
D100C5D0AA00C5D366
D200C5D92E00C5DB9F
E002720AUGSEA 0NRT 008D00000001 00C5D0E600C5D348N0000000000000
0000000 00000000CA0000FO0000
F002622AUGNRT 0SEA 008F00000002 00C5D96A00C5DB81N0000000000000
0000000 00000000CA0000FO0000
for ex in Record A, the following are the values that are based on column length
1 - (col length is 1)
249 (col length is 3)
20AUG (col length is 5) etc..
P
SEA
D
1
110000
I'm a little stuck here. How can I import a flat tab delimited file into a SQL 2005 Express table? The standard DTS and import features are not there :-(Thanks,Casey
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When i leave an empty column i get:
"Directcopyxform conversion error:destination does not allow null"
when i just omit the column entirely, i get a wrong datatype error because it basically tries to copy all the columns 1 shift to the left
How am i supposed to represent and auto PK in .csv file. Thanks
I have a flat file with a datetime field as follows
12419,1,'T','P',229.72,2,'N',2004/may/05 19:47:42.546001
12419,1,'T','R',605.38,76,'N',2004/may/05 19:47:42.546000
12419,2,'T','P',110.49,2,'N',2004/may/05 19:47:42.546003
12419,2,'T','R',215.53,11,'N',2004/may/05 19:47:42.546002
12419,3,'T','F',9.29,1,'N',2004/may/05 19:47:42.546005
12419,3,'T','R',696,38,'N',2004/may/05 19:47:42.546004
I can NOT get last field i.e. the date time field to import into SQL werver 2005 using import wizard.
I can manually enter the value in the table so I know it can handle data in the format it is in.. (table field is date time) but I cant get import wizard to read the file and bring in the data.. It bombs at coloumn 7... which is the date field.. It works fine if I delete the milisecond portion i.e. anything after the dot but I need to keep that information.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
HI,
I am having trouble importing a flat file that was extracted from an AS400 server, into a SQL 2005 DB table using Bulk Insert. This file contains a column (field) that is of a Packed Decimal data type. Data in all other fields is displayed normally when viewing this file in a text editor such as Note Pad or Text Pad, but this one field comes up with unknown encoding: squares, thick vertical lines, basically strange characters and no numeric data.
Does anyone have any experience dealing with file of this sort?
Any insight would be appreciated.
Thanks.
I have a Data loading job using SSIS (Flat File to SSIS).
I been having issues with some bad data records while importing the file.
(Date Column).
Here is an example -- 7/31/0200 (Actually have around 600 Records of this nature)
While importing these records, the package fails as it cannot convert this "7/31/0200" string to a DATTIME Column Value.
Any idea on how i can overcome this?
I have a flat file source with 500,000 rows. Each row has 1 column, with about 500 characters in it. It's getting sucked into a OLEDB destination (table) in the exact same format.
Execution of this takes around 20-30 minutes, which seems silly. I read about the "fast parsing" option, but can't use it since my column is a string. Any ideas on how to speed this up?
Note: The column width for the input and output is varchar(3000). My destination table also has a varchar(3000) field. I can't imagine that is the problem, but thought I'd include it just in case.
Hello everyone,
I have exported data from few tables from my old sql server 7.0 database. Now, I need to import those data into new database which is on SQL Server 2005 Express. How do I do that in 2005 express server? Any idea?
Or, is there any better way to import data for selected tables into new database?
Thanks,
Ujjaval
I am having problems reading from and ODBC conncetion from Oracle RDB into SSIS. I am using a DataReader source which uses a ADO.NET odbc connection to an oracle RDB database. I am having that write to a flat file. When I read integers from the source, it works just fine. When I read character data (char(48) for example), it gives me trucation errors. Is the DataReader source capable of reading char data from an odbc connection?
Here is the errors I receive:
SSIS package "Package.dtsx" starting.
Information: 0x4004300A at Data Flow Task, DTS.Pipeline: Validation phase is beginning.
Information: 0x4004300A at Data Flow Task, DTS.Pipeline: Validation phase is beginning.
Information: 0x40043006 at Data Flow Task, DTS.Pipeline: Prepare for Execute phase is beginning.
Information: 0x40043007 at Data Flow Task, DTS.Pipeline: Pre-Execute phase is beginning.
Information: 0x402090DC at Data Flow Task, Flat File Destination [792]: The processing of file "D:Documents and SettingsAdministratorDesktop est.txt" has started.
Information: 0x4004300C at Data Flow Task, DTS.Pipeline: Execute phase is beginning.
Error: 0xC020902A at Data Flow Task, DataReader Source [575]: The "component "DataReader Source" (575)" failed because truncation occurred, and the truncation row disposition on "output column "REPORT_PART_NUMBER" (789)" specifies failure on truncation. A truncation error occurred on the specified object of the specified component.
Error: 0xC02090F5 at Data Flow Task, DataReader Source [575]: The component "DataReader Source" (575) was unable to process the data.
Error: 0xC0047038 at Data Flow Task, DTS.Pipeline: The PrimeOutput method on component "DataReader Source" (575) returned error code 0xC02090F5. The component returned a failure code when the pipeline engine called PrimeOutput(). The meaning of the failure code is defined by the component, but the error is fatal and the pipeline stopped executing.
Error: 0xC0047021 at Data Flow Task, DTS.Pipeline: Thread "SourceThread0" has exited with error code 0xC0047038.
Error: 0xC0047039 at Data Flow Task, DTS.Pipeline: Thread "WorkThread0" received a shutdown signal and is terminating. The user requested a shutdown, or an error in another thread is causing the pipeline to shutdown.
Error: 0xC0047021 at Data Flow Task, DTS.Pipeline: Thread "WorkThread0" has exited with error code 0xC0047039.
Information: 0x40043008 at Data Flow Task, DTS.Pipeline: Post Execute phase is beginning.
Information: 0x402090DD at Data Flow Task, Flat File Destination [792]: The processing of file "D:Documents and SettingsAdministratorDesktop est.txt" has ended.
Information: 0x40043009 at Data Flow Task, DTS.Pipeline: Cleanup phase is beginning.
Information: 0x4004300B at Data Flow Task, DTS.Pipeline: "component "Flat File Destination" (792)" wrote 0 rows.
Task failed: Data Flow Task
Warning: 0x80019002 at Package: The Execution method succeeded, but the number of errors raised (6) 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 package "Package.dtsx" finished: Failure.
Thanks,
Alex
Hello,
Using ssis, how can I limit the number of rows I wish to import from a flat file?
thanks in advance
Hi
I am trying to to import a flat file into a table in my database, i get all the values right except for the date, it keeps on inserting NULL values into the date fields.
The date format in the flat file is '20070708' etc.
Does anyone know what i can do to fix this?
I've tried to change the datatype values that it imports, but it still ignores it and inserts NULL values
Any help will be greatly appreciated
Kind Regards
Carel Greaves
Hello,
I have a problem with some in a file.
when i excute ma package to import data with my *.cvs file ssis bloqued le data flow in the line number 1042 and output this error : column delimiter note found for the column 50 wich is the last column .
How can i resolve this problème please.
Thanks all
I was getting the product error associated with the full version of SSIS not installed so I ran the installation again and selected the Integration Services check box.
Now when attempting to import data into a database, the drop down list doesn't have a flat file option.
How do I import data from a txt, csv file?
Thanks
PatrickCrofoot@hotmail.com
Problem importing data from flat file into decimal(9,2) field. The data in the flat file is 000001453 and I am copying it to a decimal(10,2) field and instead of showing up in the 0000014.53 it comes across as 0001453.00. I tried defining the input columns a few different ways but none seemed to work. How do I do this with SSIS or do I need to write a SP and use convert? Thanks.
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SSIS is brand new for me.. Playing with since a few hours..
Iam trying to import a Flat File into the SQLSERV DB using SSIS..
One of the column is in this format -- "YYYYMMDDHH24MISS"
How do i get around this to import the data in a readable fashion into the Destination?
Thanks!
MKR
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{
using (OleDbCommand dcmd = new OleDbCommand("select * from mytable.csv", dconn))
{
try
{
dconn.Open();
using (OleDbDataReader dreader = dcmd.ExecuteReader())
{
try
{
using (SqlConnection dconn2 = new SqlConnection(@"data source=MyDBServer;initial catalog=MyDB;user id=mydbid;password=mydbpwd"))
{
using (SqlBulkCopy bc = new SqlBulkCopy(dconn2))
{
try
{
dconn2.Open();
bc.DestinationTableName = "dbo.mytable";
bc.WriteToServer(dreader);
}
finally
{
dconn2.Close();
}
}
}
}
finally
{
dreader.Close();
}
}
}
finally
{
dconn.Close();
}
}
}
A couple of the columns for the destination table use a bit datatype. The CSV files uses the strings "1" and "0" to represent these.When I run this code, it throws this exception:Unhandled Exception: System.InvalidOperationException: The given value of type String from the data source cannot be converted to type bit of the specified target column. ---> System.FormatException: Failed to convert parameter value from a String to a Boolean. ---> System.FormatException: String was not recognized asa valid Boolean. at System.Boolean.Parse(String value) at System.String.System.IConvertible.ToBoolean(IFormatProvider provider) at System.Convert.ChangeType(Object value, Type conversionType, IFormatProvider provider) at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlParameter.CoerceValue(Object value, MetaType destinationType) --- End of inner exception stack trace --- at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlParameter.CoerceValue(Object value, MetaType destinationType) at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlBulkCopy.ConvertValue(Object value, _SqlMetaDatametadata) --- End of inner exception stack trace --- at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlBulkCopy.ConvertValue(Object value, _SqlMetaDatametadata) at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlBulkCopy.WriteToServerInternal() at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlBulkCopy.WriteRowSourceToServer(Int32 columnCount) at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlBulkCopy.WriteToServer(IDataReader reader) at MyClass.Main()It appears not to accept "1" and "0" as valid strings to convert to booleans. The System.Convert.ToBoolean method appears to work the same way. Is there any way to change this behavior? I discovered if you change the "1" to "true" and "0" to "false" in the CSV file it will accept them.
Hi,
I got one more problem with importing csv files using .net. The problem is that the csv file contains double-quotation marks (""). For example, the record looks like:
...,Bearing Double "D" Flange,...
And the result is: ... | Bearing Double | null (all following columns are null)
The code is as following:
string strCsvConn = @"Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=;Extended Properties='text;HDR=Yes;FMT=Delimited(,)';";
using (OleDbConnection cn = new OleDbConnection(strCsvConn))
{
string strSQL = "SELECT * FROM " + strFileName;
OleDbCommand cmd = new OleDbCommand(strSQL, cn);
cn.Open();
using (OleDbDataReader dr = cmd.ExecuteReader())
{while (dr.Read())
{
string str = Convert.ToString(dr[8]);
}
// Bulk Copy to SQL Server
//using (SqlBulkCopy bulkCopy = new SqlBulkCopy(strSqlConn))
//{
// bulkCopy.DestinationTableName = strSqlTable;
// bulkCopy.WriteToServer(dr);
//}
}
}
Any idea is highly appreciated.
shz
Hi,
I want to import multiple text files into a single table. I know I have to use BCP or DTS. But, I want import all files at once, instead of one at a time. And the file names are in sequence, viz. file1, file2, file3 etc.
Can anybody tell me, How I can achieve this.
Thanks
Has anyone written a SQL script to import ASCII comma or space delimited?
I am trying to load a PROGRESS exported file (Unix) into SQL SERVER 6.5 (NT).
Much appreciated,
Nickd