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Reading A Flat File

Dec 12, 2006

I get the following error when reading a flat file : [Credit Information 1 [1]] Error: Data conversion failed. The data conversion for column "AccountName" returned status value 4 and status text "Text was truncated or one or more characters had no match in the target code page.".

I did check all the mappings, and everything seems to be fine, the field is read in as a string. I also check for any strange characters that can possibly cause this error but the value of the field only contains a person's name and spaces at the end.

Does anyone have any ideas what might be the cause of the error?

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Nov 29, 2006

Hello,

I am making my first attempt at creating a script for a Script Task. The script needs to do the following;

1. find the length of each record in a single fixed width flat file
-file location; C:LearningSettlementDataTestSC15_CopiesSingleFile
-file name; CDNSC.CDNSC.SC0015.111062006 (no file extension)
2. if a record is found that is longer than 384 characters;
a. copy the record out to a text file
-location;C:LearningSettlementDataTestSC15_CopiesErrantRecords
-file name; ErrantRecords.txt
b. delete record from the flat file where the record length is > 384.

If I can get this to work on a single file, I want to implement it with multiple files. I would imagine that using a ForEachLoop container with the script task 'inside' would be the way to go for multiple files. I have a connection manager set up for the single file and a MultiFlatFile connection manager set up for the whole collection of files. All of the files have the same schema. I don't know if the connection managers are going to be useful to me with what I'm trying to do, but I have them set up.

If you have some input on where I can find resources on how to do this, or have some code to pass along, please share.

Thank you for your help!

CSDunn

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Hi,

I have a very simple question, how do i read the first couple of lines only from a flat file source. Let me illustrate with an example:

**Source file***

Date of refresh 04/05/06 **

abc, 123

bac, 156

I need a way to read the first line 'Date of refresh 04/05/06 **' and get the date '04/05/06' ; and store the date in a variable.

Right now, I have a flat file source and a script component, which receives a connection from the flat file source, The script component is reading the lines, but thrice instead of once. It would be great if I can program the script component to terminate after reading the first line only. Any help would be appreciated very much.

Thanks

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Thanks,
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Hi,

How do i sequentially read the lines of the flat file that have different structures inside on how to parse it and store them in a table? Let's say, I have this excerpt from the file:

HA111Header1234

KLName1

KLName2

HA222Header4567

KLName3

KLName4

Below are the structures:

If Record type = 'HA' then

Length

Recordtype 2

Code 3

Description 10

else if Record type = 'KL' then

Length

Recordtype 2

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The Code in the KL record type is actually the code in the 'HA' line. So to store the KLName1 in the relational table, it's value for the code field is 111. The same goes for KLName4 which has 222 code. So, when a record type 'HA' is encountered, it's like i want to save its value of the code in a variable and use that to populate the code field of the following recordtype 'KL'.

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cherriesh

cherriesh.

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It uses the "SSIS Flat File source" to read and a "SQL Command" to insert into the table. I can see that it reads line by line and puts each line into one row in my table.

Now, my production data is over 5 GiG of mainframe data and it seems their data is arranged in some hierarchical form.. so the position or arrangement of data in that file is important.

I pulled the data using my package and as far as I can see , my SSIS package pulled one line at a time ( from the flat file) and pushed it into my table. For each row, I also created an identity column in my table to be able to identify the positional arrangement of the hierarchical data and then use relational mappings to suit our business needs.

In all of this, my assumption is -

"SSIS reads one line at a time, inserts to my table and goes down to the next line .

It does NOT read a snapshot of rows from the flat file so as to write them into the table using internal ordering methods based on that particular snapshot "

My question is .. is my assumption correct ?

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Hi,
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Can anyone tell me the syntax?
Thanks,
Linda

Public Overrides Sub Input0_ProcessInputRow(ByVal Row As Input0Buffer)

'Dim d As Double

If Row.MemberSourceLine.ToString.Length.Equals(267) Then <-- my latest try, but it does not work....

Row.WholesalerCode = Row.MemberSourceLine.ToString.Substring(1, 5)

Row.UPCNumber = Row.MemberSourceLine.ToString.Substring(34, 12)

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Hi,

I have the following problem: I'm connected to flat file source and trying to read data that is later inserted in an MS Access database. Everything wokrs fine instead of one thing - when I have null values in the flat file, I want those NULL values to be inserted in the MS Access db, instead of that what happens is that I actually get the default values for a column type from the flat file and later insert that defalut value. For example if I have a null value in an four-bite-signed-integer column of the flat file, I get 0 as value.

I thouth of solution using a "Derived Column" transformation which can transform the zeros into nulls, but decided to check with you guys if there is a smarter thing to do (for example to edit the flat file source to read the NULLs correctly).

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Hi,

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I am new to SSIS.

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Question:

How can I record and save the file names the package picks up and loads it in ?

For eg:
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File2.txt
File3.txt

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Appreciate your help.
Thanks in advance.
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->Under Class A

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