hi.. i have a question.. which is the best provider to use connection managers that maps xls files????
the default i have on my server is
native OLE DB . microsoft jet 4.0 OLE DB provider
but.. is there any other??
I have a ForEach Loop Container that is running from a Foreach ADO Enumerator with records telling me which companies have records to export. As I loop through I use a data flow task to export the records to Excel, I want to create separate Excel files using some of the parameters from my recordset as parts of the name.
I have DelayValidation=True for my DFT and my Excel Connection Manager, ValidateExternalMetaData=False for my Excel Destination Adapter, and an expression setting the ExcelFilePath and ServerName properties to the dynamic path & file name from variables.
The layout will be the same (i.e. metadata) for each file. The files are just getting broken up by company and service type and I want to use that in naming the files.
I am currently getting the following errors:
[EX_DST New Enrollments File [238]] Error: An OLE DB error has occurred. Error code: 0x80040E37.
[EX_DST New Enrollments File [238]] Error: Opening a rowset for "NewEnrollments$" failed. Check that the object exists in the database.
[DTS.Pipeline] Error: component "EX_DST New Enrollments File" (238) failed the pre-execute phase and returned error code 0xC02020E8.
What do I have to do to create the new Excel File? I thought it would do it when the properties were set. Do I have to create the "table" for the worksheet named "NewEnrollments"? If so, how do I accomplish it.
Thanks in advance.
sk
Can you have more then one OLD DB desination connected to the slowly changing task for the NEW OUTPUT scenario. I know I can have more then one if they have different outputs...like New Output for one and the other have fixed attrib output or unchanged output.
I have a query that gets data but I want to insert that data in 2 different tables at the same time. I can not re-query to get the data since it may change the data I get the second time I query.
So if I have a query that returns a data set how can I insert into 2 diff tables?
Hello,
I have made a package to import data from a flat file datasource to our development SQL Server database and am very pleased about how well it works.
Now, it's time to import these data into our pre-production database using the same package. I am still wondering how to parametrize the connection string so that I can switch configuration easily. I specifically want to avoid creating 2 similar packages to do the same job but with different destinations.
I have read about variables and configurations but I am still confused. They say that the package has to be reloaded or something for a change to happen. At best, it would be perfect to have a drop down list somewhere, select the correct database and hit a button to execute the package. I would be very interested in knowing if .NET could be of any use for this kind of job.
Where can I get information about this topic?
Thanks!
Marc Lacoursiere
I have around 120 tables. I am using script component to pull the values from oracle stored procedures. I do not want to create 120 source & desitinations in my dataflow. Please advice how can this be possible with one script component and one oledb destination.
I noticed I can add mutiple outputs in 1 script component which makes the script component to work like a dataset (container of different recordsets (tables) ), if I am correct. Can this be redirected to an dynamic oledb connection.
Hello,
I am working on a typical data conversion project where we are migrating data from an old data model to a new data model, using SSIS. Both the DBs are in SQL.
Now we have a situation where say there are 25 source tables and 20 odd target tables.
For transporting data, we are using OLEDB Source & OLEDB Destination transforms. However, each transform maps to one view or one table. As a result, the Data Flow is really messed up with 45+ transforms in it. Is there an elegant way of doing this ? With say just one datasource or maybe fewer transforms?
Thanks,
Satya
I want to run multiple DTS packages which export data into text files.
There is only one Data Source ..and multiple destinations.
When i write a code for this in VB ,for each Package i need to define the source connectioninividually. Can't i use the same Source connection which i used for the first package in the subsequent packages?
During my development of a ssis package i've noticed that when creating two control flows that pulling data from seperate tables, each going to its own flat file, that the second keeps the attributes of the column names from the first. So when I create my second flat file, not only does it have the names of its correct columns but has the name of the the first flat file.
I'm hoping that I've explained the correctly. I'll provide more info "OR" I can provide the code to package if anyone would like.
Hi,
A long long time ago I asked for the ability to define an order in which you insert data into multiple destinations in a single data-flow. This was to get around the problem of loading tables in the same data-flow that have FK relationships between them.
My chosen alternative at the moment is to load the table with the unique key first and drop the data for the table with the FK into a raw file and load it in a seperate data-flow. Another alternative is to disable FK constraints and reenable after but I've chosen the raw file method.
Now that I'm using SSIS on a real project this is becoming a much bigger problem that I ever envisaged it might be. Its rare that I'm building stuff where I don't have to use raw files for this very reason and this means that I have god knows how many raw files hanging around all over the place.
I suppose the reason for this post is to flag the importance of this requested feature. I really hope that this makes it into Katmai. Or into a service pack would be even better!
Its a bit of a failing at the moment.
Are there any chances that this will make it into Katmai? its one of my biggest bug-bears about SSIS v1.
-Jamie
[SSIS Team Followup]
Hi All,
I wanna know if we can have more than one "OLEDB Destination" within a Data Flow Task, I want to use the same data flow and write to two different tables in a database with some changes. If we cannot do this within the same data flow what is the best way to do this.
Thanks
Is there a way to programatically set (using expressions, variables) the FastLoadMaxInsertCommitSize property of an OLEDB destination in a data flow for Fast Load Operations.
Basically, what I want to do is based on the # of records which are going to be inserted want to set the FastLoadMaxInsertCommit size.
I just installed sql2005 and bi dev studio on a vista box. Then VS 2005 and all svc packs.
I create a new SSIS package but don't see any Data Flow Destinations in the toolbox while on the dataflow tab. I choose "show all" and don't see any data flow destinations anywhere.
I can use the wizard to create packages, and it adds destinations just fine.
Anyone have any idea what may be wrong?
Source
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Conditional Split
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dest,dest, dest (Same table)
Debugging stops with Yellow filled box, its got stuck not proceeding further.
i removed two other destinations. its working.
whats this issue? any solution for this?
For some reason I am having a really hard time grasping IS and I have a task that I would imagine is easy.
I have a flat file source with 6 columns, I would like to import this file into two flat files. One file containing columns 1,2,3,5 and the second containing 2,4,5,6. I created the connection managers for both destination files, but I can€™t determine what transformation tool I need to accomplish this task? Could you help?
Hi,
The further i get with doing my current SSIS package the more i am starting to wonder about best practices and performance.
My current package loops through CSV files in a specified location and extracts events from these files. Each file contains multiple events which are a mixture of different types. Depending on the event there are a different number of comma seperated values. In the package i firstly set each event to one column seperated by a comma delimeter. I then create an array for the event which is split by the delimeter. In a script i weed out all elements of the array that are common to all events and set the remaining events to another array. After some processing i come to my conditional split transformation which splits the processing of each event based on the EventID. This is where i'm having doubts on whether i have approched the package correctly. There are approximately 60 different events so each one of these has a seperate pipeline to process the remaining parameters in the array and output them to the destination table. The destination table is differnet for each ID. Is it viable to have this amount conditions and paths when creating the pacakge and is this likely to have any detrimental effect on performance. Is there possibly another way that i could approach this problem?
Many thanks, i hope that made sense.
Grant
What I am trying to do is move data from a staging table into a live environment and then update the staging table AFTER the row has move (and not errored). There does not seem to be a reliable method for doing this.
Any assistance would be appreciated.
I have a dynamic flat file I need to import to a table (in the same format as the file). The problem, I'm realizing, is that dynamic column mappings are a pain with SSIS. I have to know the format of the flat file ahead of time, which I won't.
What are my options here? Can package configurations help with this?
I have one folder in that i have 3 files
1) customer.txt
2) employee.txt
3) student.txt
i want to load these three files three different destinations customer file should go one destination table, employee file should go one destination table, student file should go one destination table tomorrow if i get some more files in same folder , those files also should go separate destinations these should happen dynamically.
When I set up a Flat File, Excel, or XML source, I have to specify the complete file name, in particular the folder where the file exists. I would like to specify the location dynamically, via a variable or property -- but how?
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Until there's an Integration Services 2.0, what custom components would you most like to see examples of? The documentation team is starting work on the 2nd Web refresh of Books Online and SQL Server samples, anticipated for release around April, and may be able to incorporate some requests as samples or BOL topics.
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During the execution of SSIS Package which is populating huge data into OLEDB Destination from OLEDB Source, then some of the records are getting rejected. Again if we are executing it twice or thrice, the rejected records are getting inserted.
Wants to know, why the records are getting rejected? Target table does not contain any constraints.
Hope to hear soon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
After performing a join operation on two tables i get the below resultset
pid, fname, typename, pname, pcost
1, cad, bars, product-1, 100
2, har, witte, product-2, 120
3, nes, bars, product-3, 119
Now i need to create files with the obtained resultset like
Column 'fname' is the folder name and 'typename' should be the file in the particular folder.
For example the first record should be inserted into file name 'bars.txt' in the folder 'cad' and third record should be created in file name 'bars.txt' in the folder 'nes'.
Trying to upload excel in server where excel is not installed. BIDs was there in the server, when i am trying to craete Excel source I am not able.what the workround for this.. How to upload excel without excel installed on the server.
View 4 Replies View Related I am using a Excel Source to get the data from an excel file to sql server 2005 table. A couple columns are coming in a double precision float, but some values have characters in them, but those values are coming out as null, even though I changed the datatype from float to unicode string. Any inputs on resolving this will be much appreciated.
Thanks,
Manisha
We have 10 sheets in Excel File and 10 sheet contains errror data. How to load 9 sheets data in to 1 destination and error data in to other destination?
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For that I need to get the names of each sheets in an Excel File and pass it to the Excel Source Control through variables. But when I give Data Access Mode as "Table name or view name variable" and provide the variable name in that, then it is giving an error message as "A destination table name has not been provided".
And at the same time, Since I was not able to provide an static Filename (as I am passing through Variables), when I tried to map the columns in the OleDB Destination, it is not allowing me to map the columns.
So all these things I should do at Run-time using Variables in SSIS. I don't want to hard-code any filenames or Sheet names. If any one of you have a solution, please share with me.
Thanks & Regards,
Prakash Srinivasan
l've the following situation,
l've some excel files controlled by Vendor which changing frequently. The only thing does not change is the header name of each column.
So my question is, is there any way to create a new table based on the excel file selected including the column name in SSIS? So that l can use the data reader as source to select those columns l am interested on and start the integration.
Thanks.
Regards,
Yong Boon, Lim
p/s : The excel header is at the row 7.
i have an SSIS package that exports to an excel file. This works fine. the problem is that it appends the data instead of overwriting the file. Is there any way to overwrite the file like you can with a flat file? I have to email the file everyweek and don't want to have to clear it out manually. Any help would be appreciated
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Hello,
I have a problem with retreving a excel data through excel source component.
I have source component as Excel Source which will connect to my .xls sheet.
To retrieve the values from the sheet i am using a query as,
"SELECT F14,F3 FROM [Charac Defn & Assgnment$]"
The column F14 is not formatted so that the format of the cell is "General" I have a different type of values in the F14 column such as "PE","PES",15,20,20.00,8888.9999 etc..
While i click on preview button of Excel source it shows only the text values and not the int or decimal values, its returning NULL for those cells. I tried to use convert function, its throwing an error as
TITLE: Microsoft Visual Studio
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There was an error displaying the preview.
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Undefined function 'Convert' in expression. (Microsoft JET Database Engine)
Is there any other function to change the format of the cell or i need to some thing else
Please help me how to solve this issue.
When I open the spreadsheet in Excel 2000, it works fine. When I try to print, it crashes Excel. In testing, I narrowed it down to the Header/Footer, because it also crashes when I go to Page Setup and click on the header/footer tab.
However, I can print the same spreasheet from Excel 2007.
Am I just dealing with a "you need to upgrade all your clients" situation, or is there a known issue with certian formatting that is passed out with reports that is not supported by older versions of Excel?
I am using Reporting Services 2005 SP2 to serve up the report that is exported to Excel.
Any assistance is appreciated.
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Hi,
I am creating an SSIS package witha a Dataflow task, which reads from an Excel source and then uses script component to dumpt the data to multiple tables in Sql Server database
I need to some how make my Excel source dynamic, that is my excel template which i would be using to map the excel columns to script component's input columns would be dynamic..
In other words, I should be able to define the Excel Source, Column Mapping Information, Precedence constraint to the Script component dynamically
Please suggest how could i accomplish this
Regards,
Kalyan