I designed an SSIS package about 200 packages in one project.
the package extract from live to reporting server. some of my packages are very slow about 10 of them. strage enough the ones with more data number of rows run very fast. I'm using Source->Lookup->Conditional split->OLEDB Destination or OLDB Comand.
Can someone help me to found out what could be the problem. I'm very new in SSIS.
I am using a lookup component in a SSIS data flow. The lookup is a select to a foxpro table. THe lookup works fine with full cache selected. I cannot get the lookup to work with a partial or no cache. I have the latest Foxpro OLE DB driver installed which I understand to support paramaterized queries. Has anyone had success with using cached lookup to Foxpro? Does anyone know how to set the lookup properties of sqlcommand and sqlcommandparam? I am unable to find any examples in BOL or on the web.
Here are some details. IF I go with "use a table or a view" option with the default cache query I get initialization errors
[lkp_lab_worst_value [6170]] Error: An OLE DB error has occurred. Error code: 0x80040E14. An OLE DB record is available. Source: "Microsoft OLE DB Provider for Visual FoxPro" Hresult: 0x80040E14 Description: "Command contains unrecognized phrase/keyword.".
In the advanced editor I see
SQLCommand set to
"select * from `kcf`"
and SQLCommandParam set to
"select * from
(select * from `kcf`) as refTable
where [refTable].[patkey] = ? and [refTable].[dayof_stay] = ? and [refTable].[modifier] = ? and [refTable].[kcf_code] = ? and [refTable].[source] = ? and [refTable].[kcf_time] = ?"
I believe the above error is because Foxpro V7 does not support the inner subselect . In addition the query contains CRLF without a continuation character (";").
If I remove the CRLF in the sqlcommandparam query, using the advanced editor, I get this design time error "OLE D error occurred while loading column metadata. Check the sqlcommand and sqlcommandparam properties". The designer requires both properties to be set, its unclear to me how the interact.
I cannot find any examples in BOL or on the web on how to set these 2 properties. Can someone give me a few guidelines?
I can get past the design errors by changing sqlcommandparam to a plain select that is VFP 7 compatible ( I removed the subselect and the square brackets):
select * from kcf as refTable where refTable.patkey = ? and refTable.dayof_stay = ? and refTable.modifier = ? and refTable.kcf_code = ? and refTable.source = ? and refTable.kcf_time = ?
But then I get a runtime error
[lkp_lab_worst_value [6170]] Error: An OLE DB error has occurred. Error code: 0x80040E46. An OLE DB record is available. Source: "Microsoft OLE DB Provider for Visual FoxPro" Hresult: 0x80040E46 Description: "One or more accessor flags were invalid.".
[lkp_lab_worst_value [6170]] Error: OLE DB error occurred while binding parameters. Check SQLCommand and SqlCommandParam properties.
Any idea on what I should try next ?
I work in the healthcare area, and am handling the survey data ETL's. There are around 8 different survey areas and based on information received from them for the visit they reference, I want to pull in more info from our invoicing database. My idea is this:
1.) Pull in the flat file to an ODBC staging table
2.) Cache all invoice records that fall between the MIN(Date of Service) and MAX(Date of Service) from the staging table.
3.) First lookup the information needed on patientID, providerID, date of service, and billing location.
4.) For the surveys that didn't match on those 4 columns, try looking up based on patientID, date of service, and billing location (since I could be 99% sure this would still return the record I need).
5.) For the remaining surveys, lookup based just on patientID and date of service. These records will be flagged for manual review because clearly, if a patient has multiple appointments in the same day, this will be prone to error.
However, in trying to use only 3 of the columns in the lookup, I get the error saying basically that I need to utilize all 4. Is there a way around this, or is there an entirely different way I should be approaching this? The reason I thought cache transform was the answer is because I will need to run a different package for each lookup, as the data and logic between each survey will vary, but the invoice data "pool" will stay the same regardless.
I would like to know what happens when a very large reference data set for a lookup transform with full caching enabled is getting loaded during package execution and the computer memory runs out or is very low.
Does SSIS
a) give an out of memory error of some sort
b) resort to a no caching or partial caching mode
c) maintain the full caching mode but will switch to using the paging file(virtual memory).
I think it will resort to using the page file in which case the benefits of in memory lookups are lost and performance would suffer. If I cannot upgrade the memory or shrink the reference set somehow, i should switch that lookup task to use partial caching or no caching with an indexed lookup table. Would this make sense?
I'm currently loading a package that does a lookup on a column of data type nvarchar(4).The values itself are (A+, A, B+, B, C, D, /). The strange lookup behaviour is happening for each of the cases, so it's not related to a specific value. After trying to put the cache on NO CACHE, the lookup works perfectly. When using the default FULL CACHE the strange behaviour happens. Could it be related to the data type? I have not yet tried to use a CHAR instead of a NVARCHAR but it looks like people have similar issues using CHAR.
View 2 Replies View RelatedHi,
I have to perform a lookup in a table based on a query like:
"... where ? = [RefTable].fieldID and ? between [RefTable].AnotherFieldValue and [RefTable].AThirdFieldValue"
So, SSIS has put the CacheType to none. As I really need to speed up the job I want to set the CacheType to partial (full isn't an option due to the custom query I use here).
But here it comes: when using partial CacheType, one has to set the cache size manually - and I really don't know what value I should assign to it - is there a guideline on this topic?
I work on a Win2003 server platform with sql server 2005 - 2 processors - 2Gb Ram - enough disc space
Thanks in advance,
Tom
Hello,
I searched around and not been able to find any guidance on this question: if I am designing a lookup transformation, how do I decide what I should set the cache size to?
For the transformation on which I am currently working, the size of the lookup table will be small (like a dozen rows), so should I just reduce it to 1MB? Or should I not even bother with caching for a lookup table that small?
Hypothetically speaking, if I am working with much larger lookups in the future (let's say 30,000 rows in the lookup table), is there some methor or formula that I should use to try to figure out the best cache size?
If the cache size is set larger than the actual data being cached, is the entire cache size allocated in memory, or is the cache size managed to only be as large as it needs to be? In other words, is the cache size a maximum to which the cache will grow, or is it a preset that sets the cache for that lookup to exactly the specified size?
Thanks,
Dan Read
SSIS Blogging
I've a simple lookup transform in SSIS 2008 (R2). I've created it with a full cache and it worked fine. When i switch to partial cache, it will give me this error:
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TITLE: Package Validation Error
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Package Validation Error
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Error at DFT_AdventureWorks [Lookup [411]]: SSIS Error Code DTS_E_OLEDBERROR. An OLE DB error has occurred. Error code: 0x80004005.
[Code] ....
I've created a OLE source with the following query :
SELECT
SalesOrderID,
OrderDate,
CustomerID
FROM Sales.SalesOrderHeader
And this will flow into the lookup transform and this has the following lookup reference query:
SELECT CustomerID,
AccountNumber
FROM Sales.Customer
WHERE CustomerID % 7 <>0
I am using a lookup and full cache, occasionally i get this warning:[Lookup [150]] Warning: The component "Lookup" (150) encountered duplicate reference key values when caching reference data. This error occurs in Full Cache mode only. Either remove the duplicate key values, or change the cache mode to PARTIAL or NO_CACHE. Now I know it is only a warning but it is highlighting a real issue.Is there a way of capturing that this has happened?
View 6 Replies View RelatedI'm either missing something or this is a bug. I have a Lookup that finds no matches if I use the default option of full caching (everything on the Advanced tab unchecked). The lookup table is relatively small (15348 bytes) in only 544 rows. If I check only the Enable Memory Restriction box and eliminate caching, it works fine. I can also check the Enable Caching box and accept the default cache size of 5MB and it works fine. Anyone have any ideas? I'm running on Standard Edition, SP2.
Thanks!
After converting from SSIS 2008 to SSIS 2012, I am facing major performance slowdown while loading fact data.When we used 2008 - one file used to take around 2 hours average and now after converting to 2012 - it took 17 hours to load one file. This is the current scenario: We load data into Staging and Select everything from Staging (28 million rows) and use a lookups for each dimension. I believe it is taking very long time due to one Dimension table which has (89 million rows).
With the lookup, we currently are using partial cache because full cache caused system out of memory.Lookup Transformation Editor - on this lookup - how to increase the size on partial Cache size 64-bit? I am being stuck at 4096 MB and can not increase it. In 2008, I had 200,000 MB partial cache size.
My source has 2.2 million of records. I'm performing the incremental load.In the lookup transformation i used the destination table for the reference using Full cache mode.For the first time package executed successfully but when i executed the package second time, Suddenly Package hangs while running.Than i truncate the data from the destination table and restart the SQL Server Services.After doing all this i executed package again and it worked but when i executed package second time, again package hangs up .I have 8GB RAM and i5 2.5 GHz Processor laptop.
View 7 Replies View RelatedI am using SSIS (SQL Server 2005)
I have a data flow task in my package
In that, I have a OLE DB Source, a Lookup component and a OLE DB Destination
My OLE DB Source has 49087 records
The reference table in Lookup has 400 records
When I run the data flow task, it is too slow
What could be the possible reasons?
Thanks in advance
I try to convert a Procedure that join 8 tables with INNER AND OUTER JOIN, my understanding is that the Lookup task is the one to use and I should break these joins into smaller block, it takes a long time to load when I do this, since each of these tables had 10-40mill. rows and I have 8 tables to go thru, currently this Stored Procedure took 3-4min to run, by converting this to 8 Lookup tasks, it ran for 20min. has anyone run into this issue before and know a work around for this.
Thanks
Hello,
I have developed some packages to load data into "Fact" tables in the data warehouse.
Some packages are OK, other ones not. What is the problem?: some packages load fact tables with lots of "Lookup - Data Flow Transformation" into the "data flow task" (lookup against dimension tables) but they are very very slow, too much slow to be choosen as a solution.
Do you have any other solutions to avoid using "Lookup - Data Flow Transformation"? Any other solution (SSIS, TSQL and so on....) is welcome to speed up the Fact table loading process.
Thank in advance
Im getting this error when trying to set up a cache dependency...are there any special permissions etc?From CS:SqlCacheDependency dep = new SqlCacheDependency("MySite-Cache", "Products");Cache.Insert("Products", de.GetAllProductsList(), dep); From connectionStrings.config:<add name="SiteDB" connectionString="Data Source=localhost,[port]SQLEXPRESS;Integrated Security=true;User Instance=true; AttachDBFileName=|DataDirectory|ASPNETDB.MDF" providerName="System.Data.SqlClient" />Also tried this using my machinename<add name="SiteDB" connectionString="Data
Source=<machinename>,[port]SQLEXPRESS;Integrated Security=true;User
Instance=true; AttachDBFileName=|DataDirectory|ASPNETDB.MDF"
providerName="System.Data.SqlClient" /> From web.config: <caching> <sqlCacheDependency enabled="true" pollTime="10000"> <databases> <add name="MySite-Cache" connectionStringName="SiteDB" pollTime="2000"/> </databases> </sqlCacheDependency> </caching> EDIT: So making progress I can't seem to get the table registered for cache dependency:The sample i have says"aspnet_regsql.exe -E -S .SqlExpress -d aspnetdb -t Customers -et"and the command line response is "Enabling the table for SQL cache dependency..An error has happened. Details of the exception:The table 'Customers' cannot be found in the database."Where does this "Customers" table come from? There is obviously not an application specific "Customers" table in aspnetdb I'm confused probably more by the example than anything....
Is there a way to drop clean buffers at the database level instead of the server/instance level like the undocumented DBCC FLUSHPROCINDB (@dbid)??
Is there a workaround for dbo? to be able to flush procedure and data cache without being elevated to sysadmin? server role?
PS: I am aware of the sp_recompile option that can be used to invalidate cached execution plans.
Thx.
We are using the cache transformation in our project , while doing the cache transformation our disk space goes to 0 MB free and SSIS package execution not completes even after 3 hr..Initially we have around 34 GB free space on C: drive .Our server configuration is 64 RAM. We are caching the data from table which contains around 21 million records.We changed the path in properties (“BLOPTempStoragePath”,”BufferTempStoragePath”) of Data Flow task of SSIS in which we are using Cache Transformation.
View 6 Replies View RelatedHi guys,
I am looking at the plan caches/cached pages from the perspective of
sys.dm_os_memory_cache_counters and sql serverlan Cache - Cache Pages
For the first one I am using
select (sum(single_pages_kb) + sum(multi_pages_kb) )
from sys.dm_os_memory_cache_counters
where type = 'CACHESTORE_SQLCP' or type = 'CACHESTORE_OBJCP'
a slight change from a query in
http://blogs.msdn.com/sqlprogrammability/
For the second just perfmon.
The first one gives me a count of about 670,000 pages only for the object and query cache and the second one gives me a total of about 100,000 pages for five type of caches including object and query.
If I am using the query from http://blogs.msdn.com/sqlprogrammability/ to determin the plan cache size
select (sum(single_pages_kb) + sum(multi_pages_kb) ) * 8 / (1024.0 * 1024.0) as plan_cache_in_GB
from sys.dm_os_memory_cache_counters
where type = 'CACHESTORE_SQLCP' or type = 'CACHESTORE_OBJCP'
it gives me about 5 GB when in fact my SQL Server it can access only max 2GB with Total and Target Server Memory at about 1.5 GB.
Does anyone have any idea what is going on?
How to get the count in IS lookup?
Thanks
How do I perform a date lookup in SSIS. I have a date with time component in it. This has to be looked-up with a table that contains only a date element.
View 6 Replies View RelatedI have the following query:
SELECT EMPID,EMPNAME from EMPLOYEE
where EMPID = (SELECT MAX(EMPID) from EMPLOYEE group by EMPNAME,insert_date)
Here one can use above query in Dataflow of SSIS and specify SQL to create temporary table and later can use as lookup to join to other table.
Is there any way in SSIS to directly do the MAX of EMPID in lookup and join to the main source table.
Any help is really appreciated.
Thanks.
I'm trying to understand how to use SSIS variables within SQL commands and which Data Flow toolbox objects I can use for this. My simple package has a OLE DB Source object that returns the rows in a table. For the next operation, the output from the OLE DB Source is input into a Lookup data flow transformation where there is a select query that returns another value from a different table...
select bla from myTable where dbname = db_name()
The output is then passed on to an OLE DB Destination.
The above lookup query only works because, it so happens, that I could get a unique and correct result back filtered by current database name. However, due to other required changes, I now have introduce more 'where clauses'. I have all the necessary clause information in SSIS variables (iterated via a For Each loop). I would like do something like...
select bla from myTable where dbname = ? and bla_type = ?
However, there isn't a facility for Parameters in the Lookup object's 'use results of a SQL query'. I can see that I can use parameters in the OLE DB Source object by changing the 'data access mode' to SQL Query. However, it doesn't seem valid to join two OLE DB Source objects together in the data flow? I can't see any other suitable objects in the Data Flow toolbox. Ideally, I would be able to use Parameters in the Lookup object or some other object that would do the same job.
Thanks,
Clive
I am trying to run the Fuzzy Lookup on a SQL2K ref table using 2005 SSIS package and keep getting the following error:
[Fuzzy Lookup [2601]] Error: An OLE DB error has occurred. Error code: 0x80004005. An OLE DB record is available. Source: "Microsoft SQL Native Client" Hresult: 0x80004005 Description: "Cannot create a row of size 8061 which is greater than the allowable maximum of 8060.".
Regardless of the changes I make I cannot get this to work and it would make a huge difference if I could get it to run.
Can I create the FuzzyLookupIndex on a SQL2K database?
Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated.
Many thanks
C.
Hi, I'm transferring lots of rows (each row is a problem) from an oltp database to a datawarehouse. These problems (rows) are transferred to the fact table. And a problem has attributes like status and logdate and solved_date (default null) and a sequence number. I also check every day for new problems in the source. Now the thing is ... I can write an SQL query to incrementally add new rows by using the sequence number as parameter. This is to lower querying time (BECAUSe the problem table has about 2.000.000 rows)
The Actual Question: I also need to write a query to update the tables in the Datawarehouse. For example when a status of a problem changes. When status changes from "unsolved" to "solved" it gets a date in the solved_date attribute. Now ... How can I write a query that goes fast through those 2000000 rows? Now I can't use the sequence_number because its not known when the problem gets solved. There is the fact that I run a query every day, so maybe I need to look at problems where a solved date is added on that day? Im just a novice in sql so maybe you guys know ways to do fast lookups in many rows? Or are there Data Flow tasks I can use? I was thinking about the slowly changing dimension but thats for dimensions right? :) So maybe any other tasks that are possible? I just need to put back on track because I cant find a good way to do this.
Using the lookup on a table, working with Haselden book, I plug into table on the
reference table tab and then press columns tab and get "Unspecified Error" Any thoughts?
Hi,
I am new to using SSIS. I need to know how can I retrieve the records in a Lookup component that cause an error to use them in a Data Transfer task. I created the error event handler but I don't know how to retrieve the records causing the error to use them in the Data Transfer task.
Thanks in advance for help!
Thanks,
Aref
Hi,
I am facing a problem with Lookup component in SSIS. I need to lookup from a transaction table for getting some info, But when im trying to implement the same, the Pre-Execute step itself got failed saying like,
[DTS.Pipeline] Information: The buffer manager failed a memory allocation call for 524264 bytes, but was unable to swap out any buffers to relieve memory pressure. 9467 buffers were considered and 5956 were locked. Either not enough memory is available to the pipeline because not enough are installed, other processes were using it, or too many buffers are locked.
[Tracer [19717]] Error: A buffer could not be locked. The system is out of memory or the buffer manager has reached its quota.
[DTS.Pipeline] Error: component "Tracer" (19717) failed the pre-execute phase and returned error code 0xC020204B.?
Component Tracer is the Look up. Tracer is having around 6.5 mil records. Is there any way to allocate more buffers thru buffer manager? Or is there any alternative to solve this problem? FYI, the hard disk free space is more than 250 GB.
Thanks in advance.
Hello there.
I've just upgraded from using DTS to SSIS. I've run through a few tutorials and am starting to use to the new ways of working.
There are however two task that I'm not really sure how to tackle, can someone suggest the best method in SSIS.
1) The destination table has many FK's. I'd like the package to check that the input data does not violate the FK's and use a default value for the columns where a violation occurs.
2) I need to increment a value in the package as a source column for use as the Primary Key field in the destination insert. It would be an added bonus if I could find out the maximum key used in the destination table already so that I can set my counter for this field at that value + 1.
Regards
Spangeman
Hi Everyone,
I'm building a package that is using the Fuzzy Lookup data flow item
and I'm receiving an error message that is troubling me!!!
"Fuzzy Lookup The length of input column is not equal to the length of
the reference column that it is being matched against"
If anyone can provide me any insight it would be greatly appreciated!
Regards,
A.Akin
We have a LKP table that we will use to decode incoming codes from multiple sales feeds to link to the relevant surrogate key for the ultimate dimension table.
The LKP table has a start date, end date and active row flag to track history of the codes.
This table in its entirety is required for the FULL history load but we will need a CURRENT version of the table containing only the ACTIVE rows for the DAILY incremental loading.
I am thinking of putting a standard view over the top of the LKP table to present only the ACTIVE rows rather than creating a 2nd table and reloading it each night. We don't have enterprise edition to use materialised views.
My question is, will the LKP cache populate as the SSIS packages begins, loading it with all the rows from the view, as it would if I used the 2nd physical table with only ACTIVE rows?
How would you do the following in SSIS?
SELECT a.TestID,
a.TestCode
FROM TableA a
WHERE UPPER(RTRIM(a.TestCode)) IN SELECT (SELECT UPPER(RTRIM(b.TestCode)) FROM TableB b)
Of course the above query is missing a few things but with ETL the where clause UPPER(RTRIM does not appear to be something that has an object or property that I can use in the Lookup.
Please correct and educate me.
SSIS data flow transformation - Lookup task - best practice concerning Cachetype
I would like to know if there's any best practice concerning the CacheType property for the the Lookup task. Default value is "Full", but if the SSIS package is working with at lot of data, i.e. +10 mill. records from the OLE DB source to be handled through a variated numbers of data flow transformation tasks, it must have an impact memory usage if the lookup table also is a large table, i.e. +8 mill. records? When should I consider turning the property value to "none"