I manage to get the SSIS working. Now I would need to do these tasks.
I first want to get data from 2 different sql servers. What would be the best method to accomplish this? Both are in Sql Server 2005.
Secondly I want to make sure if any of the servers couldn't be found on the network or in any case the getting data task failed for any one of them the package won't continue and an email should be send to an email address.
Thirdly If everything is ok then I should combine both and generate one sequence no for them and save them on to another location and then generate a file with modified values.
I am attempting to use the foreach loop structure in an SSIS package toloop through however many Excel files are placed in a directory andthen perform an import operation into a SQL table on each of thesefiles sequentially. The closest model for this that I was able to findin the MS tutorial used a flat file source rather than Excel. Thatinvolved adding a new expression to the Connection Manager that set theconnection string to the current filename, as provided by the foreachcomponent. That works just fine, but when I attempt to apply the samemethod to an Excel source, rather than a flat file source, I cannot getit to work. I see the following error associated with the Excel sourceon the Data Flow page: "Validation error. Data Flow Task: Excel Source[1]: The AcquireConnection method call to the connection manager "ExcelConnection Manager 1" failed with error code 0xC020200." I think thatit's just a matter of getting the right expression, and I thought thatperhaps I should be constructing an expression for ExcelFilePath ratherthan the Connection String, but I have fiddled with it for hours andhaven't come up with something that will be accepted. Has anybody outthere been able to do this, or can perhaps refer me to somedocumentation that contains an example of what I am trying to do?Thanks for any help you can give.
I've encountered a few problems using SSIS against non-SQL Server data sources and was hoping that others might have some experience. Google searches and browsing MSDN hasn't led me to a solution, so any advice on the following is appreciated:
1) When using the "Data Source Views" wizard to add a data source view from an ODBC data source, only tables appear in the object listing. Views do not. (I've also observed this with SQL Server 2005 databases as well, but it's a bigger issue when you can't use the native SqlClient, as is the case for many ODBC-only databases.) ODBC traces show that both table and view metadata is being returned to SSIS correctly, so it appears as though SSIS is filtering out views from the object listing in the wizard.
2) When creating named queries against (non-SQL Server) ODBC data sources, SSIS appears to use the SQL Server SQL syntax for referencing schemas/objects (e.g. "SELECT * FROM [schema].[table]", rather than "SELECT * FROM schema.table"). This isn't valid SQL in many databases. Am I missing something? Is there a way to change this through some configuration setting?
>> In Integration Services, data sources are design-time objects that you use when you build packages in SSIS Designer.
This is indeed the case but why? I would like to see it changed or provide some way of including the data source in some kind of a "solution/project configuration", the same way one can create a "package configuration" right now.
If one can build a project, and create a deployment utility to deploy the entire project (all packages), it is incoceivable why one shouldn't be able to set configurations at a "project" level.
Right now I am having to create package configurations to configure my connection setting for dev/test/prod etc environments. But the trouble is, if I have 10 packages each involving 3 connections in my project, I have only 3 data sources in my project, but come deployment time, I'm having to create 10 package configurations, and set my ConnectionString (which is different for dev/test/prod etc) 30 times during deployment.
If there is a better way to do it, I would like to know. Otherwise, this is what I would like to see in the next SP.
I am new to SSIS. I would like to know if I want to transfer data from one Oracle schema to another Oracle schema and also to do scheduling of the packages, can I still use SSIS? If yes, what are the components that need to be installed on the database server and the development environment? I hope I don't need the full SQL Server database installation in order to use SSIS.
I am wanting to change from using a query to move this data to using an SSIS Data Flow. I am familiar with using Merge Join to combine the two tables (H & S in this case), but I'm not sure where I can use the ISNULL in the manner described above. Is there a way to do it in the Merge Join? Do I have to do it after the Merge Join?
I have the following scenario: N identical Databases (corresponding to different Fiscal Years, with names <Company Name>.<YEAR>). We want to consolidate the N DBs to a New Datawarehouse.
In SSIS we have designed a Dataflow that reads through a OLE DB Source (Connected to one of the N Databases) and maps to a OLE DB Destination (Connected to the NEW DB).
The question is, how we loop in SSIS through the N identical Connections, so to repeatedly execute the designed Dataflow, each time with a different Connection?
I'm trying to replicate a SQL join across two seperate data sources in SSIS. If I were to write SQL to do this, it would be as follows:
SELECT Costs.CostRateEntryId,
Costs.UserId,
Costs.HourlyRate * 8 AS DailyCostRate,
Dates.DateKey,
Dates.ActualDate,
FROM Costs
INNER JOIN Dates ON Dates.ActualDate >= Costs.EffectiveDate AND Dates.ActualDate <= Costs.EndDate
Unfortunately, as the tables 'Dates' and 'Costs' are in two seperate SQL2005 systems, I can't really do this. I was hoping that it could be achieved in SSIS, but I cant seem to find any way that I can do a join that's <= or >=.
I'm just beginning to use SSIS (bracing for a steep learning curve due to lack of helpful documentation) and am starting out trying use the Import and Export Wizard. On the "Choose a Data Source" page there is a dropdown for the Data Source. I see a list of possible data providers, but not one of "Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC drivers," which is the one I wanted to use because I'm trying to connect to an obscure database. So I figured that I need to use ".Net Framework Data Provider for Odbc." Unfortunately, regardless of what I enter for the Connection string or the Dsn or the Driver I invariably get an error, although it's somewhat dependent on that I have entered for those three items.
Either this (when I type in a DSN)
Cannot get the supported data types from the database connection "Dsn=Terrascan_Okanogan_WA".
or this (if I enter a full connection string and a driver)
So I have a couple questions. First, why doesn't "Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC drivers" appear in the list of data sources, and secondly, when using the ".Net Framework Data Provider for Odbc" data source what inputs are expected because whatever I'm doing doesn't seem to work?
script in SSIS to check data connections/sources and send an email if it fails validation. I found this script online, but I'm not real good with scripting and only VB scripting at that.How can I modify this script or is there another one here that will do what I need. The data connection in question links to Salesforce and will fail validation if the password/security token is invalid.
The reason I need this script is that we have no control over the password changes and need to know if the salesforce team changes the password without informing us.
/* The Script Task allows you to perform virtually any operation that can be accomplished in * a .Net application within the context of an Integration Services control flow. * * Expand the other regions which have "Help" prefixes for examples of specific ways to use * Integration Services features within this script task. */ #endregion #region Namespaces using System;
I have some data in Excel - sheet1 which would be static.
Now I need to import data from SQL Server (using a query) and Union above static data with this SQL data and later I will have to create PowerPivot table in Sheet2.
Which is suitable option for me to import data from SQL to excel as I see "From SQL Server" option under "Data" and "Power Query" tab as well.
How to merge above SQL data with existing static data?
I need to periodically import a (HUGE) table of data from an external data source (not SQL Server) into SQL Server, with the following scenarios: Some of the records in the external data source may not exist in SQL.Some of the records in the external data source may have a different value at different imports, but this records are identified univocally by the same primary key in the external datasource and in SQL Server.Some of the records in the external data source may be the same in SQL.
Due to the massive volume of the import, I would like to import only the records which are different from what I have in SQL Server (cases 1 and 2 above). In fact case 2 is the most critical.
I thought of making a query with a left outer join between the data in the external data source table (SOURCE) and the data in the SQL Server table (DESTIN). The join is done on the respective primary keys (composed keys of up to 10 columns) and one of the WHERE conditions will be that the value in SOURCE is different from the value in DESTIN.
The result of this query would be exactly what I need to import. How to do this in SSIS??? I couldn't figure out how to join tables in different data sources yet.
In fact I cannot write a stored procedure to do that, since one of the sources is in a datasources not SQL Server. I have seen the Lookup transformation in this article http://www.sqlis.com/default.aspx?311 but this is not exacltly what I want to do. Another possibility is to use the merge join, but due to the sorting I believe its performances would be terrible!
I am pretty new to SSIS. I am trying to create a package which can accept data in any of several formats. i.e. CSV, Excel, a SQL Server database/table and import the data into my destination database.
So far i've managed to get this working OK. However I am now TOTALLY stuck. I'm currently trying to just concentrate on the data sources being a CSV (using a Flat File Data Source) and/or an Excel Spreadsheet.
I can get the data in and to my destination using a UNION ALL component and mapping the data sources to it so long as both the CSV file and the Excel spreadsheet exist.
My problem is that I need my package to handle the possibility that only the CSV file might exist and there is no Excel spreadsheet. In which case i'd like the package to ignore the Excel datasource completely. Currently either of my data sources do not exist I get errors and the package terminates.
Is there any way in SSIS that I can check all my data sources to see which ones exist (i.e. are valid). If they exist I want to use them. If it doesn't exist i'd like to disgard it (without error - as long as there is a single datasource the package should run)
I've tried using the AcquireConnection method in a script task on each of my connections, hoping that it would error if the file/datasource did not exist. It doesn't though (in the case of an Excel datasource it just creates a empty excel file for me).
The only other option I can come up with are to have seperate packages depending on the type of data we want to import and then run a particular package depending on the format of the source data. This seems a bit long winded. I am pretty sure I must be able to do what I want to achieve but I can't work out how.
I'll be grateful to anyone who can send me any tips/hints/links on how I can achieve this.
Hi, i'm wondering which is the best way to search data in a SQL Server. I reach data using Data Sources and Data Views and also with OLE DB Source with a Data access mode: Named query. I have to write the data into a Flat File. So, does any one knows which is the best practice for this? Or any one of the two are good choices? Thanks for your help.
In my project i want a report. In that report data is getting from more than one data sources(systems). While creating data source view i used named query for both primary and secondary data source. But at the time of crating "Report Model" i am getting below error.
An error occurred while executing a command. Message: Invalid object name 'Table2'. Command: SELECT COUNT(*) FROM (SELECT SerialNum, ModelNum AS com_model FROM Table2) t
Is there any way to create a report with multiple data sources?
I'm wondering if SSIS will be the solution to the problem I'm working on.
Some of our customers give us an Excel sheet with data they want to insert or update in the database.
I've created a package that will take an Excel sheet, do some data conversion so the data types match up and after that I use a Slowly Changing Data component to create the insert/update commands.
This works great. If a customer adds a new row to the Excel sheet or updates an existing row changes are nicely reflected in the database.
But now I€™ve got the following problem. The column names and the order of the columns in the Excel sheet are not standard and in the future it could happen a customer doesn't even use an Excel sheet but something totally different.
Can I use SSIS for this? Is it possible to let the user set the mappings trough some sort of user interface? I€™ve looked at programmatically creating the package but I€™ve got to say that€™s quit hard to do€¦ It would be easier to write the whole thing myself than to create the package trough code ;)
If not I thought about transforming the data in code before I pass it on to the SSIS package in something like XML. That way I can use standard column names and data types.
So how should I solve this problem? Use SSIS or not?
I have 2 tables that have the exact same structure and have some common values. T1 = a,b,c,d,e T2 = e,f,g,h
I want to create a single distinct table which captures all unique in both tables. I have a common fields ID in both, I can match on. I don't want duplicates which is what's happening now..
I have a function that returns a range of numbers and a query that returns a varchar field and an int field. I would like to replace the int field in the query with unique ranged numbers from the function(one per row).
Any ideas?
Thanks, Mark
-- use ifms
select * from dbo.fnRange(5101,5152)
select --distinct s.OrgKeyId, 10420 TableNumber, 5100 DetailCodeNumber, s.NewStratalabel CodeDescription, s.NewStratalabel CodeAbbreviation, 1 CodeActiveFlag, Getdate(), 0 distinct s.NewStratalabel, 5100 from _StrataLabel_xref s Left Outer Join(select * from org_Detail_Code where tablenumber = 10420 and orgkeyid in (Select distinct OrgkeyId from _StrataLabel_xref)) o on o.OrgKeyId = s.OrgKeyId and o.CodeDescription = s.NewStratalabel where o.Detailcodenumber is null order by s.NewStratalabel
Hi i have data on a Server in a different database which i like to access from within my ssis job.
I just need to look up information from one table on this database so i can references it. Is there a way of doing this is SSIS. Rather then me having to load the data from one database to another as the data may change.
i tried having 2 sources of data feed into a look up but that does not work..
On my home page I have several different folders to reports which require different data sources. the problem is that within these folders there are multiple copies of the same datasource. is it possible to store all of the datasources in one folder, one location? it would certainly be easier when changes to usernames and passwords need to be modified!
I searched and read about Data Sources and I'm seeing that there is no advantage in using it, which is what I found from playing around with it.
I expected that you would set a global connection in Data Sources and somehow link this to the things in your Connection Manager, giving you one place to switch from one environment to another. But reading the discussions here and playing around with it, this is not the case.
So, why is it there?
Next question.... another thing I gathered so far is something called "Configurations" that will do what I was describing above. Where do I do this?
I'm trying to combine two reports I've created into a form letter. The goal is to have a letter that indicates the students maximum UBSCT score for Math, Reading and Writing. Also in the letter we want to include the student's total number of credits awarded and overall GPA. I not sure if I need to try and combined the two queries or use two different data sources in Reporting Services. I've tried creating one sql statement but the grouping are giving me fits. I fairly new to Reporting Services.
Report 1:
704 Dixie High 11 311880 Student_1 UBSCT Math 176 704 Dixie High 11 311880 Student_1 UBSCT Reading 182 704 Dixie High 11 311880 Student_1 UBSCT Writing 173 704 Dixie High 11 311881 Student_2 UBSCT Math 168 704 Dixie High 11 311881 Student_2 UBSCT Reading 172 704 Dixie High 11 311881 Student_2 UBSCT Writing 165
SELECT track.schoolc as School_Code, school.schname as School, stustat.graden as Grade, studemo.ident as Ident, RTRIM(studemo.lastname) + ', ' + RTRIM(studemo.firstname) AS [Student], stutscors1.testc as Test_Code, left(zsubtest1.descript,20) as [Subject], max(stutscors1.testscore) as Score
FROM stutscors1 INNER JOIN stutests1 ON stutscors1.ststuniq = stutests1.ststuniq INNER JOIN studemo ON stutests1.suniq = studemo.suniq INNER JOIN stustat ON studemo.stuuniq = stustat.stuuniq INNER JOIN track ON stustat.trkuniq = track.trkuniq INNER JOIN school ON track.schoolc = school.schoolc INNER JOIN testdef1 ON stutests1.testuniq = testdef1.testuniq INNER JOIN zsubtest1 ON stutscors1.subtestc = zsubtest1.subtestc and stutscors1.testc = zsubtest1.testc
WHERE stutscors1.testscore <> ' ' and stutscors1.testscore <> '0' and school.schname = 'Dixie High'and stutscors1.testc = 'UBSCT' and stustat.graden = 11
GROUP BY track.schoolc, school.schname, studemo.ident, RTRIM(studemo.lastname) + ', ' + RTRIM(studemo.firstname), stustat.graden, stutscors1.testc, zsubtest1.descript
704 Dixie High 11 Student_1 311880 23.2500 23.2500 87.50300000 3.763569 704 Dixie High 11 Student_2 311881 20.2500 20.2500 76.84300000 3.794716
select stugrp_active.schoolc as School_Code, school.schname as School, stugrp_active.graden as Grade, rtrim(stugrp_active.lastname) + ', ' + rtrim(stugrp_active.firstname) as Student, trnscrpt.suniq as Ident, sum(trnscrpt.gpacratt) as CreditAtt, sum(trnscrpt.gradcrawd) as CreditAwd, round(sum(case when Trnscrpt.GpaCrAtt is null then 0 else Trnscrpt.GpaCrAtt end * gpamarks.gpavallvl0),3) AS TrmGpaPts, (round(sum(case when Trnscrpt.GpaCrAtt is null then 0 else Trnscrpt.GpaCrAtt end * gpamarks.gpavallvl0),3))/(sum(trnscrpt.gradcrawd)) as GPA
from dbo.trnscrpt inner join dbo.stugrp_active on (trnscrpt.suniq = stugrp_active.suniq) INNER JOIN school ON stugrp_active.schoolc = school.schoolc INNER JOIN gpamarks ON trnscrpt.marksetc1 = gpamarks.marksetc AND trnscrpt.markawd1 = gpamarks.mark
where school.schname = 'Dixie High' and stugrp_active.graden = 11 and trnscrpt.graden >= 9
group by stugrp_active.schoolc, school.schname, stugrp_active.graden, rtrim(stugrp_active.lastname) + ', ' + rtrim(stugrp_active.firstname), trnscrpt.suniq
Basically this is ONE table that contains header and detail data ordered sequentially. There are not unique identifiers for the rows. The rows are ordered sequentially so that each SALESPERSON is followed by one or more CLIENTs.
If I could merge the rows, the result would look like:
SALESPERSON SALESPERSON_ID CLIENT DATE_FROM DATE_TO AGE TOM 12345 MARYSMITH 1/1/2008 12/31/2008 46 TOM 12345 JANEDOW 1/1/2008 12/31/2008 24 ED 56789 TOMJONES 1/1/2008 12/31/2008 65 ANTHONY 243546 BEVBLACK 1/1/2008 12/31/2008 15 ANTHONY 243546 JEANTHOMAS 1/1/2008 12/31/2008 29
I am not how to do this with this data.
I also thought maybe it would be better to add unique identifiers to each set of SALESPERSONs/CLIENTs, and work with the data that way, but I am not sure how to do that.
Any help or suggestions would be appreciated. I have no ability to change this data - I have to try to work with it if possible.
Hello, i have a database which is subscrribed into two databases. It is subscribed to one database throught a PUSH SUBSCRIPTION and it is subscribed to another with PULL SUBSCRIPTION. The problem is that it is correctly syncronized with PUSH SUBSCRIPTION publication but it does not merge data correctly to PULL PUBLICATION.
When i try to run Merge Agent from subscriber it gives me following error:
Retrieving publication information Retrieving subscription information The specified subscription type is invalid. Category:NULL Source: Merge Process Number: -2147201020 Message: The specified subscription type is invalid.
P.S : When i run Merge Agent from EM, it says, " No Data to be merged "
In brief, here is my quandary… I have a GridView on a page with some radio buttons, a couple of check boxes, some drop downs etc. And depending on what the user selects the Grid View needs to show different columns from the database… The easiest way I have found to do this is to have a separate Data Object for each “view�, i.e. each variation of the checkboxes and radio buttons (which determine which dropdowns to use for the variables) and then bind the GridView to the specific Data Source at runtime…
It seemed like a good idea at the time, but now I have over 7 different data connections cluttering up the design view, and more to come and I feel like I am missing a better way to achieve the same results…
Does anyone have some advice for a major novice?
Here’s the beginning of a large set of nested ifs, if this is the way it’s done that’s fine too, I’ll just keep creating data sources, I just get the feeling there must be an easier way to do this..
I'm just wondering if it is bad programming practice to have many data sources on one page. I need a "Matrix" type of page that grabs data from many tables and so far I have 5 data sources. Is this common or is there something I should be doing to make it more efficient?
Can I import in my query a file from other sources (in this case it's a job that has elaborated server database data, but I could be in the need of using for instance Excel files or others) and compare its fields with the tables in my query?
I have a vb program that calls a sp. My vb program connects to DataSource1, Catalog1 and to DataSource2, Catalog2. My sp resides in Catalog1 using a table from catalog1 and a table from catalog2.
