Urgent Help.. Import Files With Different Structures And Formats..?
May 30, 2007
In SSIS it is very easy to import any kind of file using the Import/Export Wizard but programming in SSIS package to do the same thing is almost impossible. It can even be done by using OPENROWSET in SQL management studio but then there are problems with Excel data types and etc..
I have done my research and so far I couldnt figure it out, I know poeple have done it but I am new to SSIS and I need clearer instructions. This is my situation..
I have created a package that checks an then creates a database and then creates a table based on the Excel/csv/sdf/dbf etc file. (The structure is captured in another database using a front end app). I am stuck at importing the file into the table that I just created. I cannot use the design time tools as the files coming in will be in different formats and structures. I have found different examples of desinging the package programatically but I dont know how to:
1. Convert C# to VB. Net (Actually Im looking for the example of the code in VB.net rather than converting it)
2. Add the code in my design (Most of the code that I have seen looks like they are creating the package from scratch).
I am following this but I keep getting stuck.. (http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=749383&SiteID=1)
Any help will be appreciated..
I have used these key words for my research so far: copy data from excel to SQL, vb .net ssis custom column maping, cutsom transform, custom data flow , build column mapping programatically, script component custom source destination transform mapping
Hope answer to this thread will help many people (like me) who are in the learning process..
I currently have a directory of csv import files, all of which have the same data structure but different header information.
For example:
File 1 This is header info. This is header info. This is header info. ID,Name, DOB, etc…
File 2 This is header info. This is header info. This is header info. This is header info. This is header info. ID,Name, DOB, etc…
The data starts with the column title row, ie ID,Name, DOB.What I need to happen is process that removes all the header rows up to the title row so that all import file structures will be the same.
I was thinking of using a ForEach Loop container that will run a script on each of the files to remove the header.
I was wondering if the only way to import MSaccess files into sql6.5 is to dump the MSaccess file into a text file and then recreate the structure in SQL6.5 and then use the bcp command to copy the data into the new structure.
After the date you can see that there is two digits number either 00 or 01. The rows also have a different lengthts.
When ever that columns contains 00 the line should be inserted to a special text file, if the columns contains 01 it should to another file.
How can I solve this in a good way?
One of the problems I have is that when I try to import the rows the flat file connections indicates(erros message) that I have partial row in the file which is true since the the rows with the columns content 01 have more fields then the other.
I need to import multiple flat files with different formats into different tables of the sql server database and not able to figure out the best way out in ssis to do so...
What are the possible methods in ssis to do so and if possible the process which can be dynamic as file names or columns might change in future.
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Thank you for the help and support you have given me. Now i am confronted with a new problem. I have to import some textfiles to SQL Server Tables . I have to create a tool to automate the porting using C# .The columns in textfile is seperated with pipe"|" . I f any body knows this please help me .
Thank you for the help and support you have given me. Now i am confronted with a new problem. I have to import some textfiles to SQL Server Tables .The columns in textfile is seperated with pipe"|" . I f any body knows this please help me .
