Trying To Load Multiple Excel Files Into A Db Table Using For Each Loop Container In SSIS
Oct 24, 2007
I am getting the following error when trying to load multiple excel files using for each loop container in SSIS, I tried to put the quotes in several different ways but still can't get rid of this error. I was able to successfully load single excel file, but when I use the for each loop container that's when I am having problems. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thx.
Error at Package1 [Connection manager "SourceConnectionExcel"]: The connection string components cannot contain unquoted semicolons. If the value must contain a semicolon, enclose the entire value in quotes. This error occurs when values in the connection string contain unquoted semicolons, such as the InitialCatalog property.
Error at Package1: The result of the expression ""Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=" + @[User::Folder] + @[User::file] + ";Extended Properties="Excel 8.0;HDR=NO";"
" on property "ExcelFilePath" cannot be written to the property. The expression was evaluated, but cannot be set on the property.
I have a requirement to load multiple flat files in target table .
I have created the package which used to load files into target table using For each loop container.
But now requirement has been changed now I have to take only those files from table where status="Success" and max JobId. By the query I am to get those records which need to load into table.
Below query I am using to get the files which need to load.
select [JobLogKey],[SrcNm],[DestNm] FROM [ConfigRep].[dbo].[JobLog] Where [JobId]= (Select Max(cast([JobId] as Int)) Jobid FROM [ConfigRep].[dbo].[JobLog] Where [JobStat]='Success')
I have to load using above 2 files which are under SrcNm. I have created one variable called FileToLoad as Object and mapping to result set of above query. I have create JobId,SrcNm and DestNm variable to catch the record at every loop. I have created 2 For each Loop container
Below screen shot of outer Foreach loop. Till here Its working fine. Inner for each loop container not executing any task under that. How to get it done.
I'm having a problem getting the for loop container to process all excel files in a folder. I set the collection folder to where my .xls files are, and i set a variable in the for loop container to the FileName. I then changed my source connection and added expressions for
What I'm trying to achieve is a SSIS package that will pick up 1 or more excel files, process the data in them via the conditional splitter, pushing the good data into a table, and all other rows into an error table.
I'm having some issues using the ForEach container to process multiple excel spreadsheets into tables. The excel import into the tables is more or less working (imports data for good cases, but uses a null if the Excel Source when it gets an unexpected value - but that's a seperate problem).
I found something related to this when searching, but it related to CTPs (June and September) and trying to reuse the connection strings they built up there (using my own variable names, naturally) causes a 'Property Value failure':
The connection string format is not valid. It must consist of one or more components of the form X=Y, separated by semicolons. This error occurs when a connection string with zero components is set on database connection manager.
The excel importer works fine as a stand-alone component. Trying to use the process defined in 'Profession SQL Server Integration Services' pp140, I tried to use an expression to assign the variable value to the connection string. I get a validation error:
SSIS breakpoint 'Break when the container receives the OnPreExecute event' at executable 'Excel Importer' has been hit
SSIS breakpoint 'Break when the container receives the OnPreExecute event' at executable 'Foreach Loop Container' has been hit
SSIS breakpoint 'Break when the container receives the OnQueryCancel event' at executable 'Excel Importer' has been hit
Information: 0x4004300A at Import TPNB Ranking Excel spreadsheets, DTS.Pipeline: Validation phase is beginning.
Warning: 0x802092A7 at Import TPNB Ranking Excel spreadsheets, ProductSalesRank Table [278]: Truncation may occur due to inserting data from data flow column "Rank" with a length of 1000 to database column "SalesRank" with a length of 50.
Error: 0xC0202009 at Excel Importer, Connection manager "Excel Connection Manager": An OLE DB error has occurred. Error code: 0x80004005.
An OLE DB record is available. Source: "Microsoft JET Database Engine" Hresult: 0x80004005 Description: "Unrecognized database format 'D:TestingTestRanking.xls'.".
Error: 0xC020801C at Import TPNB Ranking Excel spreadsheets, Excel Source [1]: The AcquireConnection method call to the connection manager "Excel Connection Manager" failed with error code 0xC0202009.
Error: 0xC0047017 at Import TPNB Ranking Excel spreadsheets, DTS.Pipeline: component "Excel Source" (1) failed validation and returned error code 0xC020801C.
Error: 0xC004700C at Import TPNB Ranking Excel spreadsheets, DTS.Pipeline: One or more component failed validation.
Error: 0xC0024107 at Import TPNB Ranking Excel spreadsheets: There were errors during task validation.
SSIS breakpoint 'Break when the container receives the OnQueryCancel event' at executable 'Excel Importer' has been hit
Warning: 0x80019002 at Foreach Loop Container: The Execution method succeeded, but the number of errors raised (5) reached the maximum allowed (1); resulting in failure. This occurs when the number of errors reaches the number specified in MaximumErrorCount. Change the MaximumErrorCount or fix the errors.
SSIS breakpoint 'Break when the container receives the OnQueryCancel event' at executable 'Excel Importer' has been hit
SSIS breakpoint 'Break when the container receives the OnQueryCancel event' at executable 'Excel Importer' has been hit
SSIS breakpoint 'Break when the container receives the OnWarning event' at executable 'Excel Importer' has been hit
Warning: 0x80019002 at Excel Importer: The Execution method succeeded, but the number of errors raised (5) reached the maximum allowed (1); resulting in failure. This occurs when the number of errors reaches the number specified in MaximumErrorCount. Change the MaximumErrorCount or fix the errors.
SSIS breakpoint 'Break when the container receives the OnPostExecute event' at executable 'Excel Importer' has been hit
The program '[2460] Excel Importer.dtsx: DTS' has exited with code 0 (0x0).--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
well i am trying to follow the example of msdn help on how to loop through excel files and it doesn't work. the variables have the project scope. what can i do?
In order to update an Oracle table target from a SQL Server table source I need to use a Foreach Loop Container, so I can loop on the rows of the SQL Server table source. This source table has two columns: the old identifier to update and the new identifier to apply. I must use the value of the old identifier to filter the Oracle rows to update, while the new identifier is the new value to assign to the filtered old identifier.
I already know how to use the Foreach Loop Container when it is necessary to loop on an unique column of a table/view (using an object variable, using a Foreach ADO enumerator, etc.), but I need to loop on two columns.
I have multiple excel Files each has one sheet (With same column names) need to be loaded in a single table. I tried For each loop but couldn't succeed.
As I am new to SSIS. How to configure For each loop container for this...
I have 2 different excel files file1 and file2. file1 should be loaded to table1 and file2 should be loaded to table2. Both of the files will have 1 sheet inside. Do I need to create separate excel source for file1 and file2? I mean file1 in one excel source and that will be connecting to 1 execute sql task. file2 in other excel source and that will be connecting to another execute sql task. Is this the way I should proceed or is there any looping should be done? I need to schedule this activity to run every week. So, I'll get new files every week with the same file names and sheet names. Do I need to consider anything for this requirement also?
I'm planning to do truncate and reload not an incremental load.
In my SSIS package I am using Foreach loopcontainer to load multiple flat files.
Now my requirement is that I want to load only those file which contains %vendor%.In source folder I have many files but I am interested in to load only those file which contains the string %vendor% in file name.
My requirement is I have to read 2 sets of files from a folder. For example, I have to read all files starting with either 'a' or 'b' only. In 'Foreach Loop', if I say 'a*,b*', it is not working. Instead of comma (,), I tried colon, semi-colon and pipeline characters also. It is not working. So I am using 2 loops now. But I would like to know is there any way to do it using a single loop?
In all of our extract packages, we use a foreach loop container to grab files from the 400 sitting out in a certain directory. For this particular package, we have specified the files should be named RP*.* We know there are several files out in the directory. The package runs without error and completes, but says no files were found in the directory with that name. What could be causing this issue? Thanks!
I use a ForEach Loop Container in a ssis Package. The package has to look up in the directory 'f:ackups' for backupfiles and copy them into another folder.In my development environment it works fine. But if I run it on the SQL-Server with the SQL-Server Agent, the package logs always that the folder ist empty.Unfortunately the message is always 'empty folder' even if I define 'f:labla' as folder that actually not exists!
As filespecification I tried both *.* and *.bak .My assumption is, that the SQL-Server agent has not enough rights for that folder. But on the other side the agent is able to create backup-files in this folder.The SQL-Server Agent works under netservice control.
have an excel file which contains lots of sheets. Some of them are named as DW-<day>-<month> (for e.g; DW-1-July). Like this I have sheets for the whole month. I have other sheets too with a different name. I would like to import data from these sheets only (DW ones). Upon my research I have found that this can be achieved via For Each Loop Container.
How can I use a foreach loop container with an Excel connection manager. It is virtually impossible to configure the ConectionString property through expressions builder. Everything works fine with a Flat File connection manager but when it comes to Excel, I get the following error message: Error 1 Validation error. Extract Four: Extract Four [1]: The AcquireConnection method call to the connection manager "Excel Connection Manager" failed with error code 0xC0202009. Tarification.dtsx 0 0
Please ! Heeeelp ! tel me how I can loop through Excel files !
I have used for-each loop container for loading excel sheet contains multiple sheets with same structure. It is loading data into SQL table even there is no data in sheets.
Is it possible to use multiple masks in a For Each File Loop container?
I need to process "*.txt" and "*.csv" and tried to separate them with all the usual characters("," ";" etc.) but it does not seem to work. I don't want to create 2 or more containers for each mask.
I have a for each loop(ADO Enumerator) container which executes for each Advertiserid which is coming from database. In for each loop I have to create a new excel file with the advertiser name. So if the loop executes 7 times there should be seven excel spreadsheets with seven advertiser names.
How can i create an excel dynamically in the foreach loop container.
I am using For each loop container in my SSIS package which will loop through more than one input file in the input folder. All the input files in the input folder are picked by one by one. All the input files in the input folder are executed with the same ExecutionInstanceGUID.
Now, my requirement is to get a new ExecutionInstanceGUID during the execution of each input file in the For each loop container. My package only contains the For each loop container with some logic inside that.
Please let me know if any one can help me for the same.
I'm new to SSIS and have a question about the best way to generate multiple Excel files with my current package design. I have a stored procedure that I run from an Execute SQL Task in a foreach loop container, and it generates results as appropriate for each of the parameters it loops through.
What's the best way to take the result set from each of those executions and generate an Excel file from each set? How do I map that result set variable to be the input for creating a new Excel file? Is this best done as a script task somehow?
Should I not be using SSIS for this task? I thought I would just create a package and schedule it to run daily with SQL Agent, and it would autogenerate the Excel files as needed.
I would like to modify "Files" attribute of the Foreach Loop of type File Enumerator. This attribute is used to set the mask (for example *.txt) to specify which files to include in the selection. I need to be able to change this mask dynamically depending on package global variable. Is this possible?
why when I make a change to a foreach loop container in a SSIS package it does not save?
I am trying to change the base file name and if I change it through either the edit or properties windows, the changes does not save. Fore example i change the Files: or File Spec: from oldfile*.txt to newfilename*.txt and when I save and og bak into the edit area to confirm the change, the Files: section shows as "oldfile*.txt.
This works great it iterates through a file and looks at all the files checks to see if they have been loaded into the db table, if not it loads the file.
My spGetFile has RETURN 1 if a file is loaded and RETURN 0 if the file is not loaded.
Now I add a new variable:
Step 1: add to Foreach Loop Container
ForEach Loop Container Name = Return, Scope = ForEachLoop, Data Type= Int32 Value=0
~~"Multiple-step OLE DB operation generated errors. Check each OLE DB status value, if available. No work was done.". Possible failure reasons: Problems with the query, "ResultSet" property not set correctly, parameters not set correctly, or connection not established correctly.~~
I tried with an ADO.Net connection ... works until I add the ReturnValue parameter ...
I have over 600+ Excel .xlsx file that I have been trying to import to Sql database table. I've been trying to complete this task with SSIS but no luck yet. I have seen several videos and read articles but when I run the package the source is validated but I always get an error in the destination. I am using Excel 2010 and SQL Server 2012.
I am having a challenge to pass the filename variable from SSIS Foreach Loop Container to SQL store procedure. I have an "Execute SQL Task" inside "Foreach Loop Container" which will receive the input filename parameter passed by the Foreach Loop Container. The store procedure command line is defined as "EXEC sp_mySQLStoreProcedure ?" within the "Execute SQL Task". The Foreach loop container will gather the filenames from File System then put it in the filename variable one by one. I would like to pass the filename variable as the input parameter to the sp_mySQLStoreProcedure in the "Execute SQL Task". How can I connect the variable and the store procedure so that it will process all the input files gathered by the Foreach Loop Container?
If i place a loop container inside a sequence container the connectors within the loop container disappear.... is this a bug - will the loop tasks still run in the correct order?? or will they fire off willy nilly??
I have a package that loops over ~60 Excel files in a directory. Each file has three named ranges in it, which I import into different tables. Sometimes the package runs without a hitch, sometimes it chokes. But it is intermittent.
If I pull the control flow components out of the foreach loop and point the Excel connection manager to the specific Excel file that has caused the package to choke, I get a message in the dataflow component pointing to the named range that "the metadata of the following output columns does not match the metadata of the external columns......Do you want to replace the metadata of the output columns with the metadata of the external columns?" When I choose 'yes', then the file will be loaded. then I can put the control flow components back into the foreach loop and the file will run again, successfully, along with some more, until it chokes again....
So, first of all, does anyone have any insight into this? Sometimes, somedays, these files will load with no problems. These exact files; I am having to reload constantly... Other times, like today, it is a battle.
Otherwise, is there a way to get Integration Svcs to handle the metadata issue on the fly???
Any ideas, resources, references, war stories, or good clean jokes would be appreciated, Kathryn
Hi I am trying to load a bunch of excel files into a table and running into tables
I create a seq container--> add a foreach loop control task configure a variable thats ok as I am displaying the files names through script
I am stuck as how to configure the next data flow task to load into a destination I create a source excel and then map the expression to the variable but the destination SQL connection is not able to see this one
