I have a process which connects to a SQL server remotely, runs some code, creates a temporary table with an output. I want to be able to select the results of this table into XML (not a problem), put the results into a variable in SSIS, and put the variable results into a SQL table a different SQL Instance. Doing it this way removes the footprint of needing a normal table on the source SQL Server.
View 2 RepliesI have this procedure to remove certain characters from file names.
The SQL Task has this: exec dbo.spCleanseFileName @strFileName = ?, @strFileNameCleansed = ?
The stored procedure:
CREATE PROCEDURE [dbo].[spCleanseFileName](@strFileName varchar(40),@strFileNameCleansed varchar(40) output)
I have it in an SSIS package and my problem is that, after that SQL Task completes, the value for the
),@strFileNameCleansed variable is blank. I HAVE confirmed that the procedure DOES set the correct value inside the SP.
I have an SSIS package which uses variables and foreach loop containers so connect to multiple instances to retrieve config data. I am adding an extra step to include the port of each instance.
I used a select from a central table to get the connection strings, which is put into [User::Server2]
1) execute SQL task to collect the port
(DECLARE @portNumber NVARCHAR(10)
EXEC xp_instance_regread
@rootkey = 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE',
@key =
'SoftwareMicrosoftMicrosoft SQL ServerMSSQLServerSuperSocketNetLibTcpIpAll',
@value_name = 'TcpPort',
@value = @portNumber OUTPUT
)
Which is then put into a variable @Portnumber
2) I then need to insert this into a certain server with a where clause including another variable
so something like
"INSERT INTO DBO.InstanceConfig VALUES ('"+@[User::Portnumber]+"') where Serverinstance = ('"+@[User::Server2]+"')
but it doesnt work like that.. is there an easier way
I have finally been able to get access to SQL Server 2012, so I am just now getting to play with some of the features. My new company has multiple ways of calling an SSIS package, and some (if not all) use Package Parameters. I just did a little research on these, and I in general get how they work. Here is why I ask...
I liked how my last company had dynamic variables setup. They had all of the required variables stored on a single database table on a single server. This kept all of the connections strings, file paths, file names, etc. that a package would use. My computer, the UAT server, and the Prod server all had the same file in the same location with 1 character difference to note which environment to run in. This way I knew I would always use only the Dev server when I ran a package during development. I would also only touch the test folders with my test data. Once we moved it to UAT or Prod, that single character difference would point to a different set of variables for the same PackageID, and we didn't have to worry about forgetting to change hard coded variable values. The only 2 hard coded variable values were the PackageID and the variable holder database. I have heard of similar ways of doing this via an XML file, but I have not had the (ahem) pleasure of working with that yet.
Jump to my current job and why so far I have not been impressed with the Package Parameters. We have 3 different jobs that all call the same SSIS package. We feed in a different FacilityID, and using values stored in tables we know to look for different file names, etc. To me this seems to be a similar set up to how my last company had set the system. The big difference is my old company used a Script Task to verify which environment we were running in (I can see setting this for different FacilityID's, but that would be cumbersome), and my new company uses multiple tables across multiple databases (I know, this is not the best set up in the world, and we are fixing it soon) to decide what we will use for some of the variable values.
What are your thoughts on storing variables outside a package? Do you have any blog posts or articles you can link to show current best practices?do the Package Parameters only work via the Integrated Services Catalog, or can they be accessed for the File System packages too?
I am using Variables to configure a lot in an SSIS Packages.
Over the years you add new variables that are usefull to your default-package.
However to use those in "older" packages you have to open add them manually.
Any way (e.g. skript) to add a set of variables to every SSIS-package in a folder ?
Is it possible to export the environment variables for an SSIS 2012 project? And if so how is it achieved?
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( Left(@[User::YourFileName],3) == "AP_" ? 101 : ( Left(@[User::YourFileName],3) == "VD_" ? 102 : ( Left(@[User::YourFileName],3) == "BK_ " ? 103 : 000)))
In the above Variable i want to change the value in Hundreds place i.e from 101,102,103 to 201 ,202, 203 depending upon some Project param
lets say if project param is 1, the values assigned should be as 101,102,103
if project param is 2, the values assigned should be as 201,202,203
if project param is 3, the values assigned should be as 301,302,303 etc...
I have SSIS 2012 Enterprise, using catalog deployment and have more that 50 environment variables for connection to databases across my enterprise.
The problem when i go to configure the packages after deployment and pick the proper env variables, that are not sorted, so i have to browse all entries in order to find the proper entry in environment variables.
I've got a package in SSIS 2012 that has an Execute SQL task in the control flow level.
The SQL in question does an Upsert via the SQL merge statement. What I want to do, is return the count of records inserted and records updated (No deletes going on here to worry about). I'm using the output option to output the changed recs to a table variable.
I've tried returning the values as:
Select Count(*) as UpdateCount from @mergeOutput where Action = 'Update'
and
Select Count(*) as InsertCount from @mergeOutput where Action = 'Insert'
I've tried setting the resultset to both Single rowset and Full rowset, but i'm not seeing anything returned to the package variables I've set for them (intInsertcount and intUpdatecount).
Can I assign values to variables in 2012 using below command? I have used the same command in 2008 and it works fine.
DTEXEC
/SERVER"XXXXXXXXSQLSERVER2012"/SQL"Mypackage.dtsx"/SETPackage.Variables[FilePath].Value;"C:Test estvariable.csv"
Wondering is there a different way in 2012 to pass values to variables dynamically.
How to pass variable from Parent to child and child to Parent Packages  is this possible in SQL SSIS 2012. I need this only in SSIS 2012 ...
View 6 Replies View RelatedAll of a sudden my user variables are not displayed.
I know that they exist because the package run is successful.
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I'm rewriting a huge FOR XML EXPLICIT procedure to use FOR XML PATH, and need to compare previous output to the refactored one, so i didn't mess up XML structure.
The thing is, i'm not sure that SQL Server will always generate exactly same xml **string**, so i'd rather not compare by:
WHERE CAST(@xml_old AS NVARCHAR(MAX)) = CAST(@xml_new AS NVARCHAR(MAX))
nor do i want to manually validate every node, since the generated xml-structure is quite complex.
compare xmls by their "semantic value" ?
I have three variables
DECLARE @QuantityID uniqueidentifier,
@LengthID uniqueidentifier,
@CostID uniqueidentifier
They are sent to the sproc as null. Since they could be null I need to exclude them from posting to a temp table
Example
DECLARE @QuantityID uniqueidentifier,
@LengthID uniqueidentifier,
@CostID uniqueidentifier
SET @CostID = NEWID()
SELECT @QuantityID as ID UNION ALL
SELECT @LengthID UNION ALL
SELECT @CostID
Two values are null. I want those excluded from this table
Here is the example of what I am trying to do:
DECLARE @QuantityID uniqueidentifier,
@LengthID uniqueidentifier,
@CostID uniqueidentifier
DECLARE @Temp as Table (id uniqueidentifier NOT NULL Primary key)
SET @CostID = NEWID()
INSERT INTO @Temp
SELECT @QuantityID as ID UNION ALL
SELECT @LengthID UNION ALL
SELECT @CostID
How do I insert into @Temp only non null values?
I've got a number of stored procedures that I have for reporting
All are of a similar starting format
For easier maintenance and to take away the need to change all of them if the methodology changes I want to split out shared code.
What I want to do is to take out the part that populates the @ID1 table into a separate stored proc which will be called from the report procs. The values from the shared proc will then be parsed back to the reporting proc.
I thought about using a function but I don't think it will be flexible enough as in certain cases I want to parse 2 or more IDs back into the final output.
I also don't want to make the code too complex so that it is relatively easy to read
CREATE PROC dbo.ReportM1 @ID INT AS
DECLARE
@ID1 TABLE (ID INT PRIMARY KEY, UNIQUE(ID))
IF @ID = 0
INSERT INTO @ID1
[Code] ....
The first question I have is: can i do it with a table variable when going between procs or do i need to build a real table if i want it to maintain the logic in 1 place.
May be worth bearing in mind that the end user who will be executing the proc will only have read + execute stored proc access permissions so dropping, updating or creating real tables is not an option. #Temp tables are possible but since am using table variables throughout would prefer to stick with them.
I am trying to use variables to generate the command:
USE DATABASE
GO
Code below:
DECLARE @DBName_Schema varchar(500)
SET @DBName = 'Test'
EXEC ('USE ' + @DBName )
GO
It does not seem to be working.
Hi there,
This is what I am trying to do :
1) Create a global variable.
2) assign a value to the variable using an SQL Task. (For this all I want to do is assign a maximum value from a column in my table)
3) use the variable in a Data flow task (using SQL to get my source data)
I know this must be very simple but I am new to SSIS and I am struggling to achieve this task.
Thanks for your help in advance.
Hi,
I'm trying to use a variable in a OLEDB Command, but i can't do it.
What i want to do is:
Step 1: Count the number of rows of a table (using count rows transofrmation) and save it to a variable 'var1'.
Step2: Insert some rows on this table.
Step 3: Count again the number of rows and save it on another variable 'var2'.
Step 4: Ina OLEDB Command , get the inserted records in step 2 to manipulate them on other tables...
Something like that: select top (@var2 - @var1) * from table order by desc
¿Can i use local or global variables from an OLEDB Command transformation object?
I have a table in the report. One of the columns is the result of a variable. It is the maximum value of a field that is grouped.I need to chart the maximum values and use a different group for the values.
For example:
In the data set is the following information:
Furnace # Heat # Frame Avg Window Avg
then the table has the following:
Heat # Max Frame Avg Max Window Avg
I need to graph the Max Frame Avg and the Max Window Avg on separate graphs.
how can i put multiple values in the variables.
for eg:
Declare @w_man as varchar
set @w_man = ('julial','BEVERLEYB', 'Lucy') and few more names.
I am getting syntax error(,)
What i need is to create a function that compares 2 strings variables and if those 2 variables doesn't have at least 3 different characters then return failure , else return success.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI am writing a custom query to determine if a legacy table exists or not. From My CMS Server I already have all the instances I have to query and I store the name of the instance in the @Instance variable. I cannot get those stubborn ticks to work right in my query. Below I am using the IF EXISTS statement to search the metadata for the legacy table.
DECLARE @Found tinyint
DECLARE @Instance varchar(100)
set @Instance = 'The Instance'
IF (EXISTS (SELECT a.*
FROM OPENROWSET('SQLNCLI', 'Server=' + @Instance + ';UID=DBAReader;PWD=DBAReader;','SELECT * FROM [DBA].INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES WHERE TABLE_NAME = ''TheTable''') AS a))
SET @Found = 1
ELSE
SET @Found = 0
PRINT @Found
Before in DTS, I used to using ActiveX scripts to setup simple Global Variables that would later be used by the package, let's say a give state or a date.
I'm completely lost how to do the same in SSIS, can someone give me a hand?
I'm not sure what component to use and how to read this variable.
Hello,
I am wondering what is the difference between assigning variables in the following two ways.1.
Dim myVar11 As Variables
Dts.VariableDispenser.LockOneForWrite("LoopCount", myVar11)
myVar11("LoopCount").Value = 32.
Dts.Variables("LoopCount").Value = 3I received this error when processing SSIS Package.
Error: A deadlock was detected while trying to lock variables
"User::LoopCount" for read/write access. A lock cannot be acquired after 16 attempts. The locks timed out.
Your help is appreciated,
-Lawrence
I have a SSIS package that was migrated from DTS 2000. It had a variable that I passed to the DTS package when executing. Now when I try executing the SSIS package with the variable, I get the following error: The package path referenced an object that cannot be found: "package.variables[user::SnapShotDate].value". This occurs when an attempt is made to resolve a package path to an object that cannot be found.
From everything that I can find, I am passing the variable correctly. If I look at the package within BIDS, my variable is listed under the variable window & it is scoped for the package. Any ideas on what I might be missing here? This is my first SSIS package that contains a variable.
Let me know if you need more info.
Thanks!
John
I have a simple task that I would like to manage through a SSIS package but do not know how to accomplish it. I need to perform the following tasks:
1. update a sql server table (ecwcust) and set the ftpstatus column to 'P' when the column's value is 'E'.
update ecwcust set ftpstatus = 'P' where ftpstatus = 'E'
2. declare a variable and set the variable to the number of rows that have a ftpstatus equal to 'P'
declare @newcustomercount int
select @newcustomercount = count(*) from ecwcust where ftpstatus = 'P'
3. if @newcustomercount > 0, copy all of the rows from ecwcust where ftpstatus = 'P' to an excel spreadsheet.
4. send an email to an email recipient with the excel spreadsheet as an attachment.
5. delete the excel spreadsheet.
I do not know how to create the variable @newcustomercount so that I can determine whether or not to create the excel spreadsheet and copy the records to it.
I have read all the online help and stuff that MS has but I can't understand the instructions. Please point me to some instructions that are understandable.
Hi there,
I have a script which grabs data from a source server. The problem is I have over 50 source servers, so I have to make a script for each one.. EXACTLY the same code but different linked server address.
So I was wondering if i can put the server name into a variable so I only need to make one script.
Is that possible?
thanks,
Greetings my SQL friends,
I have a very simple package which consists of a SQL Task component and a Script Task.
The SQL Task retrieves a single value from 1 row table in one of my database and assigns that value to a variable. The Script task simply outputs the value of the variable in to a message box. I know, it's all simple stuff (I am trying to master SSIS )
The problem I have is that when I change the value of the column in my table, the value of the variable is not changing when I re-run my package. It seems to be the same value every time.
What am I doing wrong?!
Your help would be much appreciated.
in my package, I have serveral data flow sources using a same date value. the date value is different everytime the package is executed. (e.g. the date is two weeks before the execution date) I want to create something in my package which can dynamically calculate the datetime and pass it to all the data flow sources.
I thought variable is a good choice. but i don't know how to make the value dynamic.
anyone please help.
thanks
Hi all of you,
I don't think that such thing is possible but either way, I ask, just in case...
We're doing lots of packages which must have the same variables (in terms of datatype, name, etc..)
TIA for that,
I need to pass a value to a package level variable in an SSIS package from a SQL Agent job. If I use dtexecui the syntax for passing the variable in the Property Path is
Package.Variables[User::MyVar].Properties[Value]
and the package runs fine.
When I use this syntax, or any similar format I can think of, in SQL Agent, my job fails. In SQL Agent you put this in the Property Path on the Set Values tab of the Step that runs the package. If I remove passing in the variable my package runs fine.
BOL says use the format Package<container name>.<property name> but I can find no examples. Can anyone provide a working sample to make this work?
Thanks.
I have defined an active X task (converting from SQL 2000)
Function Main()
DTSGLOBALVARIABLES("TEST").Value= InputBox("TEST : ","Message Box")
Main = DTSTaskExecResult_Success
End Function
The problem is that this variable is not recognized by the subsequent tasks although I have defined a variable "TEST" in the variable lists.
Is there something else to do to get it recognized ?
Thanks for helping,
Pierre
know a way to find all stored procedures that use declared or temp tables, i.e
Declare @temptable TABLE as....
Create table #temptable