I am attempting to import a flat file and have come accross and issue that I do not know how to fix in SSIS. The issue is that some of the text fields use quoted identifiers. This is not an issue in itself. The problem is they also use quotes as escape character if quotes are on the field.
So I see instances of "" because inside the quoted field is a quote. How do i specify an escape character?
Hi Ya'll,
I tried searching for "escape character", "quotes", etc, but they didn't work.
I'm having troubling inserting data into my tables, if they have an apostrophe or double quotes. I know that MySQL's escape character is "", but I tried it for MS SQL and it didn't work. HOW DO I INSERT DATA INTO MY DB THAT HAS AN APOSTROPHE OR DOUBLE QUOTE? Thanks.
im having trouble getting this to work:
alter proc [ProGeneral_College_Structure] @Year nvarchar(4)
as
begin
DECLARE @SQLStatement nvarchar(1000)
Set @SQLStatement = 'SELECT School AS Level1Code, DIVISIONS.Div AS Level2Code,
DIVISIONS.ProgArea AS Level3Code, DIVISIONS.progName AS LevelName
, ' + SUBSTRING(@Year,1,2) + '/' + SUBSTRING(@Year,3,2) + ' AS AcademicYearID FROM DIVISIONS
WHERE (((DIVISIONS.[' + @Year + '])=1))
ORDER BY DIVISIONS.School, DIVISIONS.Div, DIVISIONS.ProgArea'
EXEC(@SQLStatement)
end
It's something to do with the / concatenation I think, is it an escape character or something tried // obviously and CHAR(47).
before I get comments I know it's dynamic sql and it's not great but I can't edit the divisions table so have to use a dynamic column.
I have a problem setting some variables in a package using the /SET option of dtexec. Specifically when the value I want to set contains a semi-colon. I get an error like:
Argument ""Package.Variables[User::Delim].Properties[Value];^;"" for option "set" is not valid.
I am guessing that I will have to escape the semi-colons somehow, but with what?
Regards,
Lars
Not sure if this is the right forums to ask this question..
I have a website in which i have a text box that has multiline = true... So suppose if if the user enter absbsbcjd and then hits enter and then again enter jfkdjf in my database i been stored as abscbabc twoboxes (new line) and then jfdkf and then sometime later i am taking that plan name and sending it as a subject to an email but since it has a new line character in that field.. i get an error..
so how can escape the new line character..
thanks
Karen
Hi!
Thanks For your reply!
but this is very urgent please help!!!!!!!
I need one more help in this issue. what if i do not need any "
for e.g: i am trying to set conn string and varaible value
jobCommand = new SqlCommand("xp_cmdshell 'dtexec /f "" + path + "" /Conn "" + Packconn + "" "" + connect + "" '",cconn);
i am getting some value like this :
CommandText "xp_cmdshell 'dtexec /f "D:\SSISProject\Integration Services Project1\ArchiveMainMultiTables.dtsx" /Conn "SE413695\AASQL2005.TestDB;" "Provider=SQLNCLI.1;Data Source=SE413695\AASQL2005;Initial Catalog=TestDB;Provider=SQLNCLI.1;Integrated Security=SSPI;" '" string
I do not need the highlighted escape characters in it. what should i do??????
i need some thing like this :
xp_cmdshell 'dtexec /f "D:SSISProjectIntegration Services Project1ArchiveMainMultiTables.dtsx" /Conn SE413695AASQL2005.TestDB;"Provider=SQLNCLI.1;Data Source=SE413695AASQL2005;Initial Catalog=TestDB;Provider=SQLNCLI.1;Integrated Security=SSPI;"'
Thanks,
Jas
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{
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{
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catch
{
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@UserId bigint,
@UserName varchar(20) output
AS
SET NOCOUNT ON
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Hi,
I am getting a date string that is contained in a character field (char(20)).
An example of the data is as follows:
2005-09-20121315001
it is in the format YYYY-MM-DDHHMMSSMMM.
I want to insert this value into a datetime field. I have used convert, but can only insert it when I split out the time portion and separate them with a colon
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======================================
Record information
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0
0
3
4
0
0
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from dbo.notestuff as notes
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:confused:
Hello,
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My Friend's
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