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Oct 2, 2007

I have a flat file source with 500,000 rows. Each row has 1 column, with about 500 characters in it. It's getting sucked into a OLEDB destination (table) in the exact same format.

Execution of this takes around 20-30 minutes, which seems silly. I read about the "fast parsing" option, but can't use it since my column is a string. Any ideas on how to speed this up?

Note: The column width for the input and output is varchar(3000). My destination table also has a varchar(3000) field. I can't imagine that is the problem, but thought I'd include it just in case.

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I was getting the product error associated with the full version of SSIS not installed so I ran the installation again and selected the Integration Services check box.

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Thanks

PatrickCrofoot@hotmail.com

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SSIS package "Package.dtsx" starting.

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Information: 0x4004300A at Data Flow Task, DTS.Pipeline: Validation phase is beginning.

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Error: 0xC02090F5 at Data Flow Task, DataReader Source [575]: The component "DataReader Source" (575) was unable to process the data.

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Error: 0xC0047021 at Data Flow Task, DTS.Pipeline: Thread "SourceThread0" has exited with error code 0xC0047038.

Error: 0xC0047039 at Data Flow Task, DTS.Pipeline: Thread "WorkThread0" received a shutdown signal and is terminating. The user requested a shutdown, or an error in another thread is causing the pipeline to shutdown.

Error: 0xC0047021 at Data Flow Task, DTS.Pipeline: Thread "WorkThread0" has exited with error code 0xC0047039.

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Task failed: Data Flow Task

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Best regards
Frank Uray

Here is what I am trying to load (one row from the file):
WPBX1 1.2 19330065002695435000 001200526000 000020002002-11-13-11.17.55.2220262006-03-03-05.50.44.322629002000010001AG2006-03-03-05.50.44.322629WIS030EPF033200602173410567000101 271275 2006030220060303200603032006030320060303 200603032006030320060303 200603032006030320060303200603031 0.000 200.000A UWCE 1 24617 10844890000000000 0.000000 0.000 0.000 0 149.500 149.500 149.500 00100010 0.000000000000000E+00 0.000000000000000E+00 0.000000000000000E+00 0.000000000000000E+00 1.000000000000000E+00 1.000000000000000E+00 0.000000000000000E+00 0.000000000000000E+0000 0000000001CV ÊÊ 00 1.150 200.000 0001-01-01-00.00.00.00000000120052600071200180K 712 71550 230.000 230.000 230.000 0.000 230.0000010 C 100.000000 2006-03-03-05.50.44.3226291567 230.000 230.000 230.000 0.000 230.0000010?C 100.000000 2006-03-03-05.50.44.3226291568 230.000 230.000 230.000 0.000 230.0000010?C 100.000000 2006-03-03-05.50.44.3226291585 230.000 230.000 230.000 0.000 230.0000010?C 100.000000 2006-03-03-05.50.44.3226291590 -80.500 -80.500 -80.500 0.000 -80.5000010?C 35.000000 2006-03-03-05.50.44.3226291640 -80.500 -80.500 -80.500 0.000 -80.5000010 C 35.000000 2006-03-03-05.50.44.3226291830 149.499 149.499 149.499 0.000 149.4990010?C 65.000000 2006-03-03-05.50.44.322629

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