T-SQL Script To Perform Same As A DTS Import Package
Apr 13, 2000
has anyone built a t-sql script that performs the same as a dts import package. I have done every thing for creating the table for the data to go into and just need to know of any procedures to create the connection to the access db to import from.
I am new to SSIS. I am interested in using SSIS to import an excel spreadsheet into a SQL server database. My biggest concern is how to handle/manage errors that might occur when the import process occurs. Can anyone give me any guidance on this? I could write some C# code to do the import and to create a custom .txt file listing errors that occur on import. Using C# code to do the import seems like I would just be reinvinting the wheel so to speak.
Hi,Did anyone successfully set up a local package to first ftp a db.bakand second perform an automated db restore?I need to perform an automated task, which ftp nightly backup file toanother server and then restore onto a database and leave the databasein read-only mode for additional transaction logs restore during theday.Can someone help and provide the procedures on how to do that?Thanks in advance.
HiWe have need for an SSIS package that would perform routine purging of the growing data in some of the tables used to support notification services. While running Sql in a regular job would seem to suffice, an SSIS package would be more in line with the other processes for the alerts in terms of manageability. The SSIS package should follow the following guidelines:Deletes records from a given number of tables, based on a specified date column for each table and a specified number of days for each table, or other conditions. SystemAlertQueue: 30 days old based on the SubmitTimestamp column. SystemAlertChron: 30 days old based on the EventTimestamp column. SystemAlertNotifChron: 30 days old based on the NotifTimestamp column. WMICheck, related tables (based on WMICheckID, see WMIAlerts database diagram in SqlServer) 15 days old based on BeginCheckDate column. Each table€™s deletion routine should be distinguishable in the package. Does any body know how to do this.. Please help meRegardsDeepu M.I
As part of my SSIS package, a list of sites is created that need to be created on a remote machine. let's say 1000 sites. I need to pass this list to a web service so web service sitting on that machine creates these sites for me. MY SSIS package does not run frequently so I can sacrifice time a little bit to get better functionality.
I need to move the sites that are not created (for any reasons) by web service to another table and successfully created sites to another table, so I need to get confirmation for each site from the web service.
Which option is better?
1) Calling web service for every single record (site) and get the confirmation and then based on the confirmation I move the records accordingly. I know this might be very time consuming, but as I said my SSIS package might only run every six months
OR
2) Sending records to a web service in a batch and get the result. I don€™t know how to do this though.
I have an SSIS package, that move file from one folder (Download) to another folder (Working), where it will be processed and passed to (Processed) folder. The folder (Working) is created at run time and deleted after finishing process. I ran this package using SQL Server Agent (I created a sql job). My problem is that the package fails to move the file from Download to Working, Although it can move it to other folders (say I skipped Working and move it directly to the already-created folder "Processed").
I traced the problem and found the error "Access is denied", when run the package without Agent (double click). I provided the necessary permissions to all levels of folders to the user XX, which I made it the (SQL Server Agent Service Account) as well as the Job Owner. By this, the package executes successfully (again by double clicking it), but with Agent it FAILS.
Why Agent cannot move the file to the run-time-created folder (Working) ?
ok....im not quite the newbie to SQL but i dont pretent to be any type of guru. i have a dts package to update my db from an access file and my problem is when i run this package it is suppsoed to wipe out the data (truncate) and replace it with the new data. It runs ok but in some cases i get duplicates and other cases the fields do not import correctly. for example, a column thats eitehr 1 or 0 and the import <nulls> everything in that column. Is truncate the correct statement?
We just migrated from SQL 2000 to 2005. We moved over the dts packages but they don't seem to work anymore. Do I need to do some editing to them to make them work but keep them as dts packages? What they should be doing is selecting data from a table then putting that data into an excel file. They seem to pull the data with the select statement fine but fail to insert data into the excel file. Any ideas why? Do I need to edit them since SQL 2005 works differently? Any help is greatly appreciated.
I'm trying to import tables and data from an Access database to a SQL Server database. I can create and run a Package from Enterprise manager that does just that. However, if I save the package as a COM file-or even if I create a new package using the import wizard and save it as a file-and then try to run the package from VB, the table schema is imported, but not the data. Any ideas? The same thing happens if I save the package in SQL Server and then try to run it from VB.
The Access database is on the server, and I'm running my code from a client.
Hi, i have a dts package file saved as "Structured storage file" (Sql server 2000), now i want to import this file into another server with rundts option or osql. I can't use sql enterprise manager or something like that but only command line tools.
I created a package using the import utility and have it opened in Business Intelligence Development Studio. Can someone explain to me how I can run this import from here?
Hi There, I am trying to create a DTS package that will import dbf tables. My problem is that the data was created back in the pre-dos 5 days, so to save room they took the dates and convert them to 2 characters. Now I would like to import these tables and conver the date back. I do have a Function that I can run in FoxPro to "Unpack" these dates.
CODE Function UnPackDate( cDate )
*!*PARAMETERS: f_datestr - Character (manditory). This should be a two **!* byte string created with PACKDATE(). *!* *!* RETURNS: A date from 1/1/1970 and 11/29/2126
I created a package from the SQL Server Import and Export Wizard.I can run this .dtsx file " Import_Table.dtsx " on my local machine no problem, which then executes the package on the remote server of my hosting company.Do they need to install SQL Server on their machine for it to work?Is there some files they can download to make it work?
It's very simple import, without any data modifications; from severalexcel files to one table.I tried the wisard and it gives me selection for only one file.I am not used to create DTS packages and schedule jobs, so I would needsome help.Thank youInna
First post, new to SQL Server, the usual apologies apply ;-)
I used the Import/Export Wizard in SSIS to define a source and target for data migration. I accidentally omitted ticking off a box to force the drop and re-creation of the target table. I can't find any way to edit a package, once I've finished with the wizard! If someone would point me in the right direction, I'd appreciate it.
In reference to the question raised in this thread http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1460591&SiteID=1
Since I'm not able to create a deployment utility, when a config file is shared among multiple packages and also I cannot get the permission from Sys Admins to use Env. Variables I'm struck.
Now I'm thinking of importing the package to Sql Server from the file system. Is there any caveats in this approach? especially regarding the config files?
[edit] Also, do I need any special permissions to view the Integeration Services node in Management Studio? We are using Integerated Authentication, neither do I'm able to run sp_start_job sp in the msdb database. [/edit]
Hi, I have one package with a complex Control Flow. I need to import a dataflow from another package into it. Cut and Paste is working but it looks like my package corrupts after that. (for example, login to database has problem with authentication now) Is there any import or export tool for this? Regards
I have manually imported my packages into SSIS (via StoredPackages/FileSystem/Import Package command). How can I utilize a ConfigFile with this package? I see that the ConfigFile can be selected when it is run (in dtexecUI ), but it doesn't "stick", and is only used for that particular run.
How can I point this manually imported package to the ConfigFile so everybody who runs it doesn't have to browse for the ConfigFile every time they run it?
I built a DTS Import Package to import an HTM file and it went smooth as silk. Replaced the file with another HTM Table of the same name and whammo a text field turned into an integer file and data goes missing. The first 20 or so rows of a particular column were all numbers. I tried to do a disconnected edit to alter the Source column to a string but the Edit button just disappears without changing the column's type value. The only way I can think of getting around this is to use something archiac like EDLIN to add a new table row at the top of the HTM Table with values to force the specified type. Anyone think of a better solution?
I am trying to import an XLS to a table in my database. Sounds simple, but the import should be an UPDATE, not an INSERT. In other words, I want to transfer data from the XLS sheet, to specific field in my database.
Let me explain more clearly.
I have an XLS sheet with a manager ID and a employee ID. The table in the database is already populated with all employee ID's but the field manager ID is still empty. Every employee has a different manager.
The import should place the manager ID's in the fields where the employee ID is the same as in the XLS sheet.
I ve created a Import Export Package by right clicking the specified Database and Save it as SQL Server Type thru the wizard and execute immediately , and it works . But I dont know where it get saved and cant able to see so that I could be able run once more. More over I want to schedule the package for that what I have to do ??? Plz help me
I have a job that moves a file to import directory where the SSIS package picks it up and processes it. 95% of the time is works flawlessly and fast.
The other 5% of the time the process fails. It appears that the file is inaccessible to SQL Server. I run it again and it works perfectly. It appears to be completely hit and miss.
The last step in the package is on-completion delete the file. When the package fails, the file (as directed) is not deleted.
I've included a snippet of the error log. I can place the log out here if it would help more.
Any ideas what could possibility going wrong? I hate inconsistent failures.
Warning: 2008-04-06 15:05:30.80 Code: 0x80070002 Source: Data Flow Task Flat File Source [317] Description: The system cannot find the file specified. End Warning Error: 2008-04-06 15:05:30.80 Code: 0xC020200E Source: Data Flow Task Flat File Source [317] Description: Cannot open the datafile "D:Processes 40720080105260140306.txt". End Error Error: 2008-04-06 15:05:30.80 Code: 0xC004701A Source: Data Flow Task DTS.Pipeline Description: component "Flat File Source" (317) failed the pre-execute phase and returned error code 0xC020200E. End Error
Hi, I want to create a package to import some tables from database X from Server XYZ to database X of server ABC. (As my X database on server XYZ is gets updating everyday so i need to update it on X of server ABC using the package.) So i have created a package using the import export data transformationn services. It runs fine while creating. i.e importing data for the first time. But when i have saved that SSIS package on SQL or File system and scheduled it to run daily, but if fails everytime. I am not getting the error its giving. Because everytime when i go to view history of that package it just gives me messages like step1 started by user xyz and failed. Can you please help me to sort out this problem. If possible give me steps which will help me to create package to run above scenario. you can mail me the solution on abhijeets@nedbank.co.za
I have a SQL .bak generated by our existing hosting package at 1and1.com, I want to import that SQL .bak to our new hosting package at ixwebhosting.com.
ixwebhosting.com don't have a import feature in their control panel.
I have to maintain the SQL at ixwebhosting.com using Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio Express since they don't have that feature in their cp. I don't see any import features in Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio Express either.
How can I import it using Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio Express or another free GUI program?
I am a newbe at MS SQL 2005, so if this has already been answered elsewhere, please just point me in the right direction.
I have successfully used the Import/Export wizard in "execute immediate" mode to import a table from Oracle 10g to MS SQL 2005. Works like a charm, but when I take the saved pacakge (saved as a *.dtsx server side file) - with no changes to the package and execute it from the either the "dos" prompt or from Windows explorer it fails at the login to Oracle step. Yet when I check the package's "Connection Managers" source connection, all the settings, user-ids and passwords look fine. The package does indeed execute, but I receive an ORA-01017:invalid username/password within the trace file of the package, but nothing has been changed from the Import/Export wizard which ran beatifully, thus verifying the appropriate acccess rights to Oracle.
I created a package via the import wizard in SQL Server Management Studio. When I test-ran the package I realised it needed to be modified. How do I do this without using either Visual Studio, SSIS Designer or an XML editor, none of which is installed where the package was created? Ideally I want to hear that there's a way of redisplaying the package in the import wizard.
Hello everybody... I have a very simple SSIS package that loop throught the worksheets of an Excel file and insert the data into a SQL server 2005 table.
The SSIS is very simple and works fine the problem is that after the Package executes if I double click on the Excel file imported I have the message that the file is in use.
I think that the Excel connection manager of the package doesn't release the Excel resourse but this is only a guess..
Do am I right? If yes how can I release the resource?
I'm trying to create an import package using BIDS. I'm using SQL Server 2008. The data is saved as a .csv file so that I can use the flat file option for data source. The issue I am having is that when I preview the flat file after selecting it as the datasource, some of the data that have the numeric file format are showing up as non numeric, for instance the value -1,809,575,682,700 is being viewed as ""1 and the package is giving a conversion error.
We are building an application with a database that contains Jobs. These Jobs have properties like Name, Code etc. and some custom properties, definable by the application admin. For bulk import of Jobs, we want to allow the import of an Excel sheet with the columns Name, Code and a variable amount of columns. If the header names of these columns in the Excel sheet match the name of a custom property in the system we want to add the value of that cell into the database as property value.
In our Data Flow of our Import Package in SSIS we added an Excel Source that points to a test excel sheet with the Name and Code columns and €“ for this example - 3 custom property columns (Area, Department, Job Family). When we configure the Excel Source in the Excel Source Editor, we have the option to select the Columns from the Available External Columns table. But here lays the problem, we do not know at design time, what custom property columns to expect. We DO expect the Name and Code columns, but the rest is uncertain at design-time.
That raises the question: Is there some way to select all of any incoming columns (something like a SELECT * in T-SQL)? This looks like a big problem since it would mean that the .DTSX XML that is being generated at design-time would need to be updated at run-time to reflect the variability of the columns that might be encountered while reading the excel sheet.
Then, we thought, we could add a Script Component to our data flow that passes some kind of DataSet (or DataReader) in which we can walk through the columns ourselves? But then still, we miss the option to include ANY of the columns while reading an Excel sheet (or any other datasource by the looks of it)
We are aware of the option of optional columns in combination with the RaggedRight option, but it seems that we would have to put all of the columns of a row in just one column and then extract all the columns later with Derived Columns. But then, since the source import file is being prepared by an application admin, we want don€™t want to burden him with this horrendous task of putting everything in one column.
We would like to have some way of iterating through all the columns, either in a Script Component or maybe with a Pivot/Unpivot mechanism.
Does anyone have any suggestions? Are there other options we should have considered?
I have a requirement to create many SSIS packages and no datatransform is required so the BCP task looks a good contender providing it can do both import & export
is it possible to parse the values in bold as package variables into the BCP task. If so how?
BULK INSERT ipcs_wvg.dbo.extract FROM 'D:IPCSextract.csv' WITH (FORMATFILE = 'D:ipcsqueryextract.xml');
Thanks in advance
Dave
I have a global database called ETL Configuration for all my SSIS packages that uses a single table. So I can create three global variables
USE [ETLConfiguration] CREATE TABLE [dbo].[SSIS Configurations]( [ConfigurationFilter] [nvarchar](255) COLLATE Latin1_General_CI_AS NOT NULL, [ConfiguredValue] [nvarchar](255) COLLATE Latin1_General_CI_AS NULL, [PackagePath] [nvarchar](255) COLLATE Latin1_General_CI_AS NOT NULL, [ConfiguredValueType] [nvarchar](20) COLLATE Latin1_General_CI_AS NOT NULL ) ON [PRIMARY]
I have looked at lots of options to automaticly create SSIS packages and have a hunch that that simple can be better: All these solutions look way to complex to what I want to achieve--
I want to download data from an AS/400 to a SQL 2005 Database.
Within Sql server 2000 it was possible to do more than 1 transformation with just 1 source connenction and 1 destination.
In SSIS I have created:
- new solution
- data source
- Data source viewer ( I made named queries to format the data as i want it to be in Sql)
Although it is possible to view the named query data it does not seem to be possible to import the data in the data viewer into my sql 2005 database. (For each dataflow I have to define each query again)
I have added the data source in the connection manager.
Also I am searching to import more than 1 file in 1 package !
I can use however a Dts-2000 package but why then use SQL server 2005