Parsing A Tab Delimited File
Dec 5, 2007I have a tab delimited file with 122 columns. Can any one let me know if there is a better way of parsing/extracting few columns (say about 15) from the file and loading it into a table using SSIS.
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Flat File Connection Manager Not Parsing File Correctly
Apr 3, 2007Hi,
I have a flat file, comma-delimited, with strings in double-quotes.
In the connection manager for the file, I have specified that the Text Qualifier = ""
However, in the preview tab, it still shows the strings as surrounded by the quotes, e.g. "mycol1" whereas it should show mycol1 without the quotes.
Next, when I examine the data in the database after the load, it's messed up there also.
"mycol1" ends up in the database as "mycol1
"mycol2" ends up as "mycol2
This is not right.
I have format set to delimited, header row delimiter crlf, etc.
Any ideas?
Thanks
Parsing RTF File
Dec 3, 2007Hi:
I need to parse an regularly outputted rtf file and was wondering if it is possible in SSIS. I am trying to use the flat file connection manager to do this.
Now, I can't treat tab stops in an rtf like tab stops in a csv, since when you treat an rtf as a text file, you see the format code of the rtf. If I open the rtf in a text editor, the entire file is one line, with lines breaking with:
par}
Columns are tab delimited in the rtf, and they look like this when you treat the rtf as a text file.
plain abfs16f4cf0cb1
(or something like that, the word "tab" is the important part.)
So I use the "plain ab" part to delimit in SSIS, since that is consistent (planning to parse out all the garbage later on). The problem is, sometimes lines don't have a "city" and "state", so it "tabs" right over to the next field. So like this (looking in MS Word):
Phone <tab> City <tab> State <tab> Date <tab> Other fields.....
847-111-2222 <tab> Omaha <tab> NB <tab> 9/14/2007 <tab>
222-222-3333 <tab> 9/14/2007 <tab>
555-121-1212 <tab> Houston <tab> TX <tab> 9/14/2007 <tab>
Now, if you treat an RTF as a text file, it has only one "plain abfs16f4cf0cb1" after the phone number, so even for the missing line there is only one tab, not 3. This is because in the beginning of the row tabs for each row are defined like this:
tql x90 ql x840 ql....etc...
with "tql" and "tx" tags basically saying where all the tab stops are for that row. So for the row above with missing info, it lists fewer tab stops. So the "date" (and associated garbage) ends up under "City" for this row. All of the "Houston" row's data starts appearing in the sql server output table's 2nd last field, as you might expect.
Any suggestions how to pull this in in SSIS during the transformation? I could deal with it after I pull it in, I still have all the data. I'm thinking the logic to do this could be complicated though. I take the data out of the last two fields of the missing row into some other table, use UPDATES to shift the values 2 fields to the right, and then figure out a way to take the data I just put in a temp table back in, but it all sounds a bit complicated.
Let me know if this makes sense--I've almost got it going, I just need to sort this last bit out.
Thanks,
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Jan 19, 2008i am trying to read a qfx file from quicken.
it looks like xml, but its not, but i cannot figure out how to grab what ive got to parse the line.
i put this into a derived column, but its not getting it
SUBSTRING([Column 0],FINDSTRING("<STMTTRN>",[Column 0],1),FINDSTRING("</STMTTRN>",[Column 0],1))
because inside the data, it lools like that's what brackets a tranasction; the data looks like this and varies by trntype, but the columns are tagged like so
<STMTTRN>
<TRNTYPE>POS
<DTPOSTED>20070129160000
<TRNAMT>-0000000000026.50
<FITID>20070129011
<NAME>SUNOCO
<MEMO>01/24 ENGLWD CLIFF NJ 8015V200006
</STMTTRN>
<STMTTRN>
<TRNTYPE>POS
<DTPOSTED>20070129160000
<TRNAMT>-0000000000023.47
<FITID>20070129012
<NAME>KFC
<MEMO>01/26 NANUET NY 8015V215116
</STMTTRN>
i tried the xml transform and unpivot, but have not cracked it.
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Mar 19, 2008Hello all,
I have a question regarding importing text file data into SQL Server. I'm hoping someone can point me in the right direction, as my searches haven't turned up anything specific enough.
I'm trying to parse a large (24MB) text file. It's a fixed-width file, with multiple columns. I need to parse this file, check if a record already exists, and then import the data into the database. But I don't need to insert every column. There's only a few columns from the file I need to insert. This parsing also needs to occur at regular intervals (daily).
I looked at BULK INSERT, but I can't find an example that uses only some of the columns. Every example uses all columns, and the file is delimited, not fixed-width.
Is there anything within SQL Server that can accomplish this? I haven't turned up anything that will solve my problem. The only other solution I can think of is an application that parses the file for me and inserts the data into the database. But can I schedule that application to run every night at midnight (for example) through SQL Server?
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Nov 28, 2007Hello,
I have a file that looks like this:
Summary
A ABCD
A Category MarketValue Margin
A category1 1.0000000 1.000000
A category2 2.0000000 2.000000
H Totals Total Cash Net
H 2.00000 200000 2000000
Another Summary
B BCDE
B Activity MarketValue Margin
B activity1 3.00000 3.000000
B activity2 4.00000 4.000000
The items in blue are headers. I don't want to capture those. However, I want to capture all the data in black, and put it into 3 separate tables (or maybe the same table, under the appropriate column names)
This situation differs from anything I've done before in that you can't identify what row contains what data by what's in the row itself. That is, what's in the data rows is random and subject to change. So you can't search the row itself to determine which table it goes to.
However, if there's a way to capture all the rows after a certain header before the header changes again, that might work.
That is, get all rows between A Category MarketValue Margin and H Totals Total Cash Net
and
get all rows between H Totals Total Cash Net and Another Summary
and
get all rows after B Activity MarketValue Margin
Any examples of how I might script this?
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Reading File As One String, Then Parsing - How To Do This?
May 7, 2007Hi,
The suggestion to do this is buried deep in one of my posts, however I still do not have a clear idea of how to do this.
I have a flat file which has several "bad rows" in it. Because file error redirection is buggy, I need a manual approach to get rid of these incomplete rows in my data file.
Phil, you suggested I read the file as one long string, then parse out the bad rows (using a script?).... however I have no idea as to how to actually do this.
I was wondering if it's possible to clarify the steps involved in doing this, or perhaps point me to an example I can look at, as I cannot seem to get around this problem on my own.
Thanks much!!
Another Flat File Parsing Problem
Dec 5, 2006Hello All!
I know this has come up before and I have tried several of the solutions found within the forum but I just can't seem to import my file correctly and could use some input, please.
Sample file (less fields than actual file):
Name (str), Phone# (str), Description(str), Resolved(bool), Met(bool)
"Kay, Mary","123-4567","Used a "."not a"," in text", "1", "1"
The text is qualified with " and columns delimited with commas but the description field has embedded quotes and commas. Normally it works except if there embedded quotes and commas.
I have tried unqualified data and undouble, but that does not work either because of the embedded commas in quotes.
Do I need to do something before the data flow? Do I need to do custom code similar to undouble (I tried modifying undouble but using unqualified fields caused the source file to not like the data and go red)? Should the row be read as one field and parsed?
Thanks in advance for any help you can give!
Importing A Tab Delimited File
Jul 5, 2007hi all,
While importing a tab delimited file..
it seems ssis interprets the incoming col as 50 chars in length even
though it is far smaller.
any ideas how this could be??
any help would be appreciated.
Tab-delimited Header File
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when I set FILEheader = firstname,lastname...what must I use to change the comma to tab in the header string. I have tried various ways , {t}, [-t], and others. what am I missing?
Character Delimited BCP File
Feb 6, 2008Is there a faster way to create my pipe delimited BCP file, besides from creating a format file? Actually, my problem is that I am having issue with the file. It looks perfect, like:
Code Snippet
Marie|32|brown|single
Gay|33|black|married
But when I load it to DataStage it puts the entire row as one column. I already specified the | as the delimiter in DataStage. I think the issue is from the column collation. If my data is as simple as my example above, what column collation should i use for the format file? Currentyl, i have something like:
Code Snippet8.0
4
1 SYBCHAR 0 4 "|" 1 emp_id ""
2 SYBCHAR 0 4 "|" 2 emp_cand_id ""
3 SYBCHAR 0 4 "|" 3 emp_statusid ""
4 SYBCHAR 0 4 "
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Jun 7, 2007Hi,
I have a situation where I'm having to extract key data from a financial file. Problem is, the columns are not nice and tidy.
Basically the file looks like this:
row 1: "788","Company","OPENING BALANCE:", 2084587.76
row 2: "313947","04/01/07","3","CS","FF", 170.00,"AZT","XYC INC", 20.8, 351.00
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I am new to VB, and am looking to write some code to import a delimited (by a ~) .txt file into a SQL server table. It doesn't need to append, just to totally overwrtie the table. Is this possible? I have been looking at the Bulk Insert, but this doesn't seem to be quite right. Can anyone help?
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Hi,
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"""KAILUA KONA,HI""","CA",
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"""KAILUA as a column:
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CA as column
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CA as column.
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