Hi everyone.
A delimited file is being sent to us from another company. The file is supposed to have 10 columns in each row. We are going to process the file using SSIS (2005)
Question - how do we handle the file if some of the rows are bad - are missing one or more columns?
If my package reads the file using a flat file source, when I run the package with a file where some of the rows have fewer than the expected 10 columns, my package abends on the flat file source task.
All we can think of doing is writing .net code to process the file as the first step of the package or even outside the package, to remove bad rows from the file before it hits SSIS.
Browsing through a couple of threads here similar to mine, it appeared to me that MS staff responded by stating the functionality of the flat file source may be enhanced in the future to handle this?
Ok but what we get is the row delimiter is ignored in preference for the column delimiter and the row delimiter gets sucked into the column and the next row starts to get layed down.
So we get
| Col1 | | Col2 | | Col3 | | Col4 | | Col5 |
The Quick Brown Fox Jumps
Hello World{CR}{LF}This is a test
I'm I not seeing a tick box somewhere that says "over here if you want to terminate a row on the row delimiter even if all columns aren't full and we'll pad NULLs in rest of the row columns which you can fix in the flow transformations"
I'm sure it's there.....help!
(By the way SSIS team, great job on the package love using it)
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I'm sure there is probably a very easy solution that I am just not seeing or can't Google...
I have a DataFlow that includes a column of Delimited values (i.e. Value1,Value2,etc..). As this DataFlow is populating a parent table, I need split the values into their own dataflow and populate a child table. I've tried a script transformation and couldn't figure out how to accept 1 delimited input row and output multiple rows after a split. Any ideas?
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That means, only select Level=H, and display the last record of H with concatenated the description of each rows delimited with comma.
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To this end, I have three tables: Reports Jobs ExtraJobs
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What I'm currently trying to do is this: Code:
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my question is..
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