Passing GUID Into Dtexec, Invalid Cast To A String Variable. Solution??
Oct 4, 2006
I am getting an invalid cast specification when I call dtexec and try to /SET a user variable within the package that is defined as a string data type. Is there any solution to this? I have tried passing the GUID with {} w/o {} w/ '' w/ "" etc.. many variations... and still get an invalid cast specification. Is there a data type that I need to set the User variable to besides String? The User Variable is used to Select records from a SQL data source where the GUID is stored. I do not have an option of GUID data type for a User Variable.
I thought I would post this solution. I searched a long time and didnt see anything about how to solve my problem. After avoiding this and simply building strings I decided to dig in my heels and try and figure this out. Well, maybe I am just slow. :) Anyhow, here is some code that should help a lot of folks with this question...
Function GetProductCategories(ByVal departmentID) As DataSet
'set the connection string (comes from a property in this case) Dim connection As SqlConnection = New SqlConnection(ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings("ConnectionStringWeb"))
'set the sql text string notice the @DepartmentID is my parameter. protected from sql injections Dim strSQL As String = "SELECT * FROM ProductCategory WHERE DepartmentID = @DepartmentID"
'set new command object to strsql and the connection. required Dim command As New SqlCommand(strSQL, connection)
'set parameters to pass to through with the strsql. required for parameters. you can take this a set further. See commented fields below. command.Parameters.Add(New SqlParameter("@DepartmentID", departmentID))
'additional set up for parameters if you like... 'command.Parameters.Add("@departmentID", SqlDbType.Int, 4) 'command.Parameters("@departmentID").Value = departmentID
'set SQLDataAdapter to your previously created command object 'this enables your adapter access to your strSQL, connection and parameters Dim da As New SqlDataAdapter(command)
'set proper name of table for data set based upon departmentID If departmentID = 1 Then Dim ds As New DataSet() da.Fill(ds, "dtCarriers") Return ds End If
'set proper name of table for data set based upon departmentID If departmentID = 2 Then Dim ds As New DataSet() da.Fill(ds, "dtProducts") Return ds End If
hi there, i am trying to pass a string which contains a string, here is the code which is wrong : {string sqlcommand = "select pnia.pnia_number, pnia.user_name, pnia.date_pnia, pnia.user_pnia, problem.problem, gormim.gorem_name, status.status_name from pnia,gormim,problem,status where (pnia.status='@p1' and status.status='@p1' and pnia.problem=problem.problem_num and pnia.gorem=gormim.gorem)"; OleDbCommand cmd = new OleDbCommand(sqlcommand,con);OleDbParameter p1 = new OleDbParameter("@p1",this.DropDownList4.SelectedItem.Value.ToString()); cmd.Parameters.Add(p1); } the problem is that the sql compailer doesnt take the parameter (@p1) as a string if someone could help me with that it would be great ! tnx
ALTER FUNCTION [dbo].[fn_concat_boxes](@item varchar, @week int) RETURNS VARCHAR(100) AS BEGIN
DECLARE @Output varchar(100)
SELECT @Output = COALESCE(@Output + '/', '') + CAST(quantity AS varchar(5)) FROM flexing_stock_transactions WHERE item = @item AND week = @week GROUP BY quantity ORDER BY quantity
RETURN @Output
END
how can I pass the variable @item correctly for the string comparison
When executing a package from Business Intelligence Studio variables are well passed between packages but when same is done using dtexec utility variables don't get passed between packages. Does anyone have any idea why this could be happening and what would be possible solutions? Thanks in advance!
I'm getteing an error saying "[Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver]Invalid character value for cast specification" when i try to debug a store procedure. The Store Procedure parameters are as below. PROCEDURE clCreateUnpostedTrxEarnType ( @SERIES int, @PERIODID int, @YEAR int, @PTRATIO float, @CPTYPE int, @CPTRXTYPE int, @Startdate datetime, @Enddate datetime, @O_iErrorState int = NULL output )
I am using the backend SQLServer with Powerbuilder, I write a stored procedure and tried to create a datawindow to use that procedure but failed, it returns error code 22005 -Invalid Character value for cast specification. I tried to change any setting in ODBC but still failed.
accessing through ODBC a frond end application which is running on MS SQL Server 2005, works just fine with a specific setup as concerned as the decimal/thousands separators ("," for thousands and "." for decimals). If i switch these settings alternatively ("." for thousands and "," for decimals), i get this error: [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver]Invalid character value for cast specification.
I tried to search forum and internet but no luck. Thanks in advance
hello, i have a problem with SQL Server Agent. Sometimes, when a scheduled job runs i get this error:
Error: 2008-03-13 06:04:50.50 Code: 0xC0202009 Source: Load Current OLE DB Destination [124] Description: SSIS Error Code DTS_E_OLEDBERROR. An OLE DB error has occurred. Error code: 0x80004005. An OLE DB record is available. Source: "Microsoft SQL Native Client" Hresult: 0x80004005 Description: "Invalid character value for cast specification". End Error Error: 2008-03-13 06:04:50.52 Code: 0xC020901C Source: Load Current OLE DB Destination [124] Description: There was an error with input column "collectDate" (217) on input "OLE DB Destination Input" (137). The column status returned was: "Conversion failed because the data value overflowed the specified type.". End Error Error: 2008-03-13 06:04:50.52 Code: 0xC0209029 Source: Load Current OLE DB Destination [124]
the code i use looks like this
DECLARE @Report_date datetime SET @Report_date = dateadd(dd,-1,convert(varchar(10),getdate(),121))
select CollectDate = @Report_date
the destination column is datetime. Is this a known issue / bug? Because this doesn't happen everytime, and when it does happen all i have to do ia run the job again.
I have a Data Flow task that is simply copying data from table A to table B. (there is a derived column in between however)
All the columns in table A are varchar(255). The columns in table B vary: floats, decimals, etc
However, I am getting a bazillion errors when I run this, each of them to the effect that:
Error: SSIS Error Code DTS_E_OLEDBERROR. An OLE DB error has occurred. Error code: 0x80004005. An OLE DB record is available. Source: "Microsoft SQL Native Client" Hresult: 0x80004005 Description: "Invalid character value for cast specification". An OLE DB record is available. Source: "Microsoft SQL Native Client"
I don't understand why this is happening... I've succesfully run similar scenarios with other packages, ie) moving data from one table to another table even though the tables have different data types.
I'm creating an SSIS package that will execute legacy dts packages. The package to be executed is decided at runtime using a sql query task.
Executing a dts package statically works fine, but when I try to set the details of the dts to be run via expressions, I get the error below.
To make it dynamic, I created a variable of type string, and put the package name in here. I also have a string variable for the packageid. Then I set up an expression on the Execute DTS 2000 Package Task that sets the PackageName & PackageID property to this variable.
The PackageId is a string variable I've retrieved using:
select top 1 name, cast(id AS varchar(50)) id, cast(versionid AS varchar(50)) versionid from sysdtspackages where name = @PackageName order by createdate desc
When I use the task to set the package id it works find (by selecting a dts, then changing the name), but when I try to provide the package id I get this message:
but the method signature specifies String PackageGuid, and it is a string..
any ideas??
i tried casting the variable like so:
(DT_GUID) @[User:TSPkgId], as the versionid is a uniqueidentifier on sysdtspackages.. It didn't like that at all (can't cast from type DT_WSTR to DT_GUID error code 0xC00470C2)
I'm usung bcp to move data from one table to another. 202 million rows. The source/original table had 32 fields. The new table has 33 fields. I added a PK column to the destination/new table. The new PK column is the first field in the new table, it is set to autoincrement by 1 on each insert. The data file only has 32 fields of data per row.
The error is :SQLState = 22018, NativeError = 0 Error = [Microsoft][SQL Native Client]Invalid character value for cast specification
10 times, then bcp shuts off (default errors is 10).
C:>bcp dbname.schema.TP_LOG_NEW in e:alltplog.dat -S dbsvr -T -f tplognew.fmt
I'm trying to build a SS 2005 db from a Sqlbase database and I have coded a program to bring over the data and insert. The problem I'm having is that on some of the tables, I'm getting an "Invalid character value for cast specification" error on an insert. I've found the offending row and discovered that it's an integer that is null in the source table.
The weirdness is, that in SqlServer, it is defined as an "int" column that can be null. I can insert the row through both Management console (connected natively) and through a sql utility from Sqlbase/Gupta (called sqltalk) connected thru ODBC. The problem is when I try the insert through OLEDB within the application, that's when I get the error. I changed the value from null to zero in the source table then it works. I think there must be a "set **** on" on the connection that I'm missing if I can enter the SAME data using Management console but I'm not sure what that is. I don't want to have to find ALL occurences of null integers in my entire database just to insert it into SqlServer.
I have a question regarding the running of a procedure from VC++ in SQL server.
well this is the scenario.
i have a procedure in SQL server and i am running that thru my VC++ code. :eek: i have a recordset class and i create an object of it and then do a obj.Open(). the procedure is fetching 24 records correctly in the query analyser and in my while(!(obj.IsEOF())) loop it gets the first record correctly but the moment it encounters obj.MoveNext(); it bombs and gives me the following error..
"Invalid Character value for cast specification ".
Hi,I used SQL Server 2000 Personal Edition. I created a stored procedurehaving input parameters as smallint,tinyint,char,varchar andsmalldatetime. When I executed it by Query Analyzer, it's ok. But whenI executed it by ASP code that used ADODB.command, it showed error:Invalid character value for cast specification .Though SQL Server debugger, it showed:[Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver]Invalid character value for castspecificationWhat did I do wrong? How do I fix this problem?TIAKrungPS: One of input parameters was smalldatetime, but I casting it in ASPas date as:Const adDate=7datetxt='2004/6/28'cmd.Parameters.Append cmd.CreateParameter("CoopId",adChar,adParamInput, 8, coopid)cmd.Parameters.Append cmd.CreateParameter("Addr",adVarChar,adParamInput, 100, addr)...cmd.Parameters.Append cmd.CreateParameter("Cdate",adDate,adParamInput, , datetxt)....cmd.execute
Hi, I'm a new DBA and am a rookie when it comes to working with SQL Server 2005. I have been tasked with transfering an Access database to SQL Server 2005. Now I understand to use the import/export wizard, but am having problems fixing an error I am receiving. Here is the error...
Problem I - Copying to [IS_Shared_ServicesTest].[dbo].[tblResource] (Error) Messages * Error 0xc0202009: Data Flow Task: SSIS Error Code DTS_E_OLEDBERROR. An OLE DB error has occurred. Error code: 0x80004005. An OLE DB record is available. Source: "Microsoft SQL Native Client" Hresult: 0x80004005 Description: "Invalid character value for cast specification". (SQL Server Import and Export Wizard)
* Error 0xc020901c: Data Flow Task: There was an error with input column "Contract Start Date" (115) on input "Destination Input" (80). The column status returned was: "Conversion failed because the data value overflowed the specified type.". (SQL Server Import and Export Wizard)
Here is the short version of the error. I realize that there is an error with the conversion and the error is in tblResource in column Contract Start Date. It is still transfering the column over, and on spot check they seem fine. Should I be really worried about an error? Or is there something that I can do with the Access or SQL server database to fix this?
In my SSIS Package I am loading data from Oracle source to SQL Destination. But while loading I am getting below error.
[OLE_DST_FORECASTSTANDARD [72]] Error: SSIS Error Code DTS_E_OLEDBERROR. An OLE DB error has occurred. Error code: 0x80004005. An OLE DB record is available. Source: "Microsoft SQL Server Native Client 11.0" Hresult: 0x80004005 Description: "Invalid character value for cast specification".
[OLE_DST_FORECASTSTANDARD [72]] Error: There was an error with OLE_DST_FORECASTSTANDARD.Inputs[OLE DB Destination Input].Columns[UNITS_NEW] on OLE_DST_FORECASTSTANDARD.Inputs[OLE DB Destination Input].
The column status returned was: "Conversion failed because the data value overflowed the specified type.".
I have attached the table definition of both source as well as destination.
Hi all--Given a table called "buyers" with the following column definitions in a SQL Server 2005 database:
[BUYER] [nvarchar](40) NULL,
[DIVISION] [nvarchar](3) NULL,
[MOD_DATE] [datetime] NULL
This table is laden with Unicode data and the MOD_DATE contains no data--not even NULL values, and is giving me a headache as a result. I can export this data fine to a text file, but when I create an SSIS package to attempt import to another table defined exactly the same as above in another place, I get the following messages:
SSIS package "buyers_import.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, Source - buyers_txt [1]: The processing of file "D: emp3uyers.txt" has started. Information: 0x4004300C at Data Flow Task, DTS.Pipeline: Execute phase is beginning. Information: 0x402090DE at Data Flow Task, Source - buyers_txt [1]: The total number of data rows processed for file "D: emp3uyers.txt" is 232. Error: 0xC0202009 at Data Flow Task, Destination - buyers_tst [22]: SSIS Error Code DTS_E_OLEDBERROR. An OLE DB error has occurred. Error code: 0x80004005. An OLE DB record is available. Source: "Microsoft SQL Native Client" Hresult: 0x80004005 Description: "Invalid character value for cast specification". Error: 0xC020901C at Data Flow Task, Destination - buyers_tst [22]: There was an error with input column "MOD_DATE" (45) on input "Destination Input" (35). The column status returned was: "The value could not be converted because of a potential loss of data.". Error: 0xC0209029 at Data Flow Task, Destination - buyers_tst [22]: SSIS Error Code DTS_E_INDUCEDTRANSFORMFAILUREONERROR. The "input "Destination Input" (35)" failed because error code 0xC0209077 occurred, and the error row disposition on "input "Destination Input" (35)" specifies failure on error. An error occurred on the specified object of the specified component. There may be error messages posted before this with more information about the failure. Error: 0xC0047022 at Data Flow Task, DTS.Pipeline: SSIS Error Code DTS_E_PROCESSINPUTFAILED. The ProcessInput method on component "Destination - buyers_tst" (22) failed with error code 0xC0209029. The identified component returned an error from the ProcessInput method. The error is specific to the component, but the error is fatal and will cause the Data Flow task to stop running. There may be error messages posted before this with more information about the failure. Error: 0xC0047021 at Data Flow Task, DTS.Pipeline: SSIS Error Code DTS_E_THREADFAILED. Thread "WorkThread0" has exited with error code 0xC0209029. There may be error messages posted before this with more information on why the thread has exited. Information: 0x40043008 at Data Flow Task, DTS.Pipeline: Post Execute phase is beginning. Information: 0x402090DD at Data Flow Task, Source - buyers_txt [1]: The processing of file "D: emp3uyers.txt" has ended. Information: 0x402090DF at Data Flow Task, Destination - buyers_tst [22]: The final commit for the data insertion has started. Information: 0x402090E0 at Data Flow Task, Destination - buyers_tst [22]: The final commit for the data insertion has ended. Information: 0x40043009 at Data Flow Task, DTS.Pipeline: Cleanup phase is beginning. Information: 0x4004300B at Data Flow Task, DTS.Pipeline: "component "Destination - buyers_tst" (22)" wrote 0 rows. Task failed: Data Flow Task SSIS package "buyers_import.dtsx" finished: Failure.
Among the customizations in this package is the flag "ValidateExternalMetadata" set to False. The data itself is surrounded by " and delimited by semicolons for each field, with the header row set as the name of each column. It looks like this:
"BUYER";"DIVISION";"MOD_DATE" "108 Joon-Hyn Kim";"TAD";"" "109 Kang-Soo Do";"TAD";"" "FS07 John Smith";"TAD";""
...
Can anyone suggest a course of action on how to handle the error when the MOD_DATE field is completely empty?
I have OLE DB source which executes SP with 2 parameters and output is flat file. Every time I run I immediately get output below. How do I troubleshoot further what might be causing this?
Information: 0x402090DC at Data Flow Task, Flat File Destination [2]: The processing of file "C:UsersadminDesktopout.csv" has started. Error: 0xC0202009 at Data Flow Task, OLE DB Source [41]: SSIS Error Code DTS_E_OLEDBERROR. An OLE DB error has occurred. Error code: 0x80040E21. An OLE DB record is available. Source: "Microsoft SQL Server Native Client 11.0" Hresult: 0x80040E21 Description: "Invalid character value for cast specification". Error: 0xC004701A at Data Flow Task, SSIS.Pipeline: OLE DB Source failed the pre-execute phase and returned error code 0x80040E21.
Why would I get these errors: " SSIS Error Code DTS_E_OLEDBERROR. An OLE DB error has occurred. Error code: 0x80040E21. An OLE DB record is available. Source: "Microsoft SQL Native Client" Hresult: 0x80040E21 Description: "Invalid character value for cast specification".
There was an error with input column "UniqueID" (3486) on input "OLE DB Command Input" (3438). The column status returned was: "The value could not be converted because of a potential loss of data.".
Error: 0xC0209029 : SSIS Error Code DTS_E_INDUCEDTRANSFORMFAILUREONERROR. The "input "OLE DB Command Input" (3438)" failed because error code 0xC0209069 occurred, and the error row disposition on "input "OLE DB Command Input" (3438)" specifies failure on error. An error occurred on the specified object of the specified component. There may be error messages posted before this with more information about the failure."
I read related posts but could not figure out the error?
I have a SQL Task that updates running totals on a record inserted using a Data Flow Task. The package runs without error, but the actual row does not calculate the running totals. I suspect that the inserted record is not committed until the package completes and the SQL Task is seeing the previous record as the current. Here is the code in the SQL Task:
DECLARE @DV INT; SET @DV = (SELECT MAX(DateValue) FROM tblTG); DECLARE @PV INT; SET @PV = @DV - 1;
I've not been successful in passing a SSIS global variable to a declared parameter, but is it possible to do this:
DECLARE @DV INT; SET @DV = ?; DECLARE @PV INT; SET @PV = @DV - 1;
I have almost 50 references to these parameters in the query so a substitution would be helpful.
Here's a problem description I read on another post but I have the same issue:
I am trying to Import Data from a csv file into a SQL Sever table. The Data being imported has a Unique Identifier in it but it is being considered as DT_WSTR datatype in SSIS
When i directly try to import, it gives an error:
The conversion returned status value 2 and status text "The value could not be converted because of a potential loss of data.".
I Tried to use Data Conversion to convert it to DT_GUID and import into SQL Server table but it again throws the above error. Anyone has a clue?
Hi all,I have setup my database that have 3 columns:1. Primary Key2. UserId (UniqueIdentifier, Guid I guess) - I set it up so I can insert the value from the Membership table (UserId) for some relationship.3. Another Foreign key with just an int. I tried to build a DAL, ran a test and received this error: "Failed to convert parameter value from a String to a Guid." Before I setup my UserId to be UniqueIdentifier and let it be just an Int, I don't have any problem retrieving data. Here is the SELECT query that I built with the DataSet:SELECT aspnet_Users.UserId, t_music.MUSIC_TITLEFROM t_user_viewedJOIN aspnet_Users ON aspnet_Users.UserId = t_user_viewed.UserId JOIN t_music ON t_music.MUSIC_PK = t_user_viewed.MUSIC_PK_FKWHERE aspnet_Users.UserId = @UserId Any help would be greatly appreciated,Kenny.
But when I am trying to run it as stored procedure as follow abc and I assign the same value for the parameter in Define Query Parameter dialog box. it gives following error.
" an error occured while executing the query. Failed to convert parameter value from string to guid.
Additiona Information :
failed to convert parameter value from a string to a guid.(system.data) "
Hi all, I have a VB 6.0 application that interacts with an MS Access backend. I am in the process of converting it so that it interacts with SQL Server 2000. The current applications uses Cint, CStr, etc. functions which are MS-Access specific, so I am now switching over to Convert (or Cast) function. The problem is that there are certain places wherein I first need to store the value of the resultant CAST/Convert function in a variable and then use that value in a SQL statement. However, I cant seem to figure out a way of storing the results from CAST/CONVERT functions in the VB 6.0 variable. All the examples on Internet show use of these functions directly in an SQL statement e.g. "Select CAST(title as Int) from xyz", etc. Can anybody tell me how can i get the values to be stored in the variable? I am really stuck here and cant seem to progress.
In my .NET app I have a search user control. The search control allows the user to pick a series of different data elements in order to further refine your display results. Typically I store the values select in a VarChar(5000) field in the DB. One of the items I recently incorporated into the search tool is a userID (GUID) of the person handling the customer. When I go to pass the selected value to the stored proc
objUpdCommand.Parameters.Add("@criteria", SqlDbType.VarChar).Value = strCriteria; I get: Failed to convert parameter value from a String to a Guid. Ugh! It's a string, dummy!!! I have even tried: objUpdCommand.Parameters.Add("@criteria", SqlDbType.VarChar).Value = new Guid(strCriteria).ToString(); and
objUpdCommand.Parameters.Add("@criteria", SqlDbType.VarChar).Value = new Guid(strCriteria).ToString("B"); but to no avail. How can I pass this to the stored proc without regard for it being a GUID in my app?
Hi, i have some problems passing a guid parameter to a stored procedure; the code is below and the error i get is; Failed to convert parameter value from a String to a Guid conn = new SqlConnection(ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings["LocalSqlServer"].ConnectionString); cmd = new SqlCommand("spInsKeyswap_history", conn); cmd.CommandType = CommandType.StoredProcedure; conn.Open();
MembershipUser mu = Membership.GetUser(User.Identity.Name); guid gdUserID = mu.ProviderUserKey;
I have a problem with casting a string number to int. for exmaple i have the number '0110' (string) and i would like it to be 110. or '0001' to be 1. i tried to do: cast(MyNUM as int) . but i get "Syntax error converting the nvarchar value 'O322' to a column of data type int."
For operands of the conditional operator, the data type DT_STR is supported only for input columns and cast operators. The expression "...see above..." has a DT_STR operand that is not an input column or the result of a cast, and cannot be used with the conditional operation.
The expression works if I replace the NULL(DT_STR, 0, 1252) with say "A" and the expression works on other non-string columns. (As in "NULL(DT_I1) : (DT_I1)100")
I created an SSIS package that pulls in legacy data from a DB2 AS400. There is an In Date field that is stored on the AS400 as OdbcType.Date or DATE. However, when I use SSIS to pull in the data, SQL wants it to be a string so I gave up and let SQL have it's way.
Now in my SELECT statement, I have this:
SELECT TLMST.TLNUMBER, TLMST.DOGNAM, BRDMST.BRDesc, TLMST.INDT FROM TLMST INNER JOIN BRDMST ON TLMST.BRDCOD = BRDMST.BreedNumber WHERE (TLMST.INDT >= @startdate) AND (TLMST.INDT <= @enddate) ORDER BY TLMST.INDT, TLMST.TLNUMBER
Because I see the dates stored in TLMST are yyyy-mm-dd format, this is not working. It is not pulling any records. I tried to use the CAST statement but I keep getting errors about casting from a string to a date and data overflow errors.
Should I go back and re-do the SSIS or is there a way to pull the records for this? Thanks for the information
