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
View 12 RepliesWhat 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':
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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.
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I attemtpted to use this:
"Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=" +
@[User::RankingFileFullPath] + ";Extended Properties="Excel
8.0;HDR=YES";"
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:
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Error 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 at Import TPNB Ranking Excel spreadsheets [DTS.Pipeline]:
component "Excel Source" (1) failed validation and returned error code
0xC020801C.
Error at Import TPNB Ranking Excel spreadsheets [DTS.Pipeline]: One or more component failed validation.
Error at Import TPNB Ranking Excel spreadsheets: There were errors during task validation.
Error at Excel Importer [Connection manager "Excel Connection Manager"]: An OLE DB error has occurred. Error code: 0x80040E4D.
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Any advice?
....
.... in addition ....
I attempted to change the package - I set the Data Flow validation to
Delay Validation, and changed the expression to change from:
ConnectionString @[User::RankingFileFullPath]
to
ExcelFilePath @[User::RankingFileFullPath]
This allowed the package to start debugging, and gave more information in the failure:
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SSIS package "Excel Importer.dtsx" starting.
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
SSIS package "Excel Importer.dtsx" finished: Failure.
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?
View 11 Replies View RelatedI 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.
TITLE: Package Validation Error
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Package Validation Error
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
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.
(Microsoft.DataTransformationServices.VsIntegration)
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Hi,
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?
Thanks.
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.
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.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI 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')
Output:-
JobLogKey SrcNm  DestNm
268 H:Data PlatformSource FileClient2LocHGSSpecLocation.txt Location.txt
269 H:Data PlatformSource FileClient1LocHGSSpecLocation.txt Location.txt
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 containerÂ
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 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.
How do you sort files from the Foreach loop container?
I love this component, except I can't get it to sort by filename.
Nice to know how to sort by timestamps also.
Dave
Has anyone ever seen this issue?
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??
All,
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
Any ideas what I am doing wrong
Thanks
Po
Hello Experts,
Sorry that I open a new thread again but I didn€™t found any good tutorials about foreach loop container. I would like to read every row from one table and do something.
I red something about sql task€¦ Can someone give a little instruction, please?
Kind regards,
Alex
Hi
I using data flow task to import from flat file to database but i need to use Foreach Loop Container to import multiple files in specific folder and all will be insert in the same table
tahnks & Regards
What I'm trying to do is take multiple "snapshots" of a membership for many months. I was trying to do this in a For Loop Container in which I added one to the month variable and subtracted one from an iteration variable each loop, unless the month variable = 13...then I would add one to the year variable, set the month variable to 1 and subtract one from the iteration variable. This, I was hoping, would allow me to initialize 24 to the iteration variable, 1 to the month variable and 2004 to the year variable, kick off the package, and get 2 years worth of "snapshots" in seperate files (one for each month). Here is the AssignExpression I thought would work:
@Member_Month == 13 ? @Member_Month = 1 && @Member_Year= @Member_Year + 1 && @Member_Iteration = @Member_Iteration - 1 : @Member_Month = @Member_Month + 1 && @Member_Iteration = @Member_Iteration - 1
The package states that the single "=" should be double, but I don't think that that is what I want to do (I tried doing this just to check, and it didn't like this either). I think that it is having problems with doing multiple things on both sides of the ":". What am I doing wrong?
Thanks,
Brian Layden
We have a config table which has columns like pollingfolder, cop to folder etc.
Data looks like this
Config id polling folder
1 d:dataloadacn
2 d:dataloadship
under ACN and Ship folders we can have more than 1 source files which had to be loaded into target
the load process has to be repeated for each file in all the folders like ACN and ship
I have used for each loop container to poll the folder.
Can we set the directory to be polled at runtime taking from config table.
For doing this I have used the property Directory in expression editor of for each loop. But it is not working.
If I hard code the variable value in variables section , then its working.
How to change the directory to be polled value at runtime?
I'm trying to set up a For Loop Container that steps through the loop based on date logic.
Here's an example of what I'd like to do:
InitExpression | @SomeDate = 1/1/2007
EvalExpression | @SomeDate < GETDATE()
AssignExpression | @SomeDate = DATEADD(DAY, 1, @SomeDate)
The above syntax does not work, and I can't find an example that uses date logic with the For Loop Container.
Can anyone help me with this, or point me to an example that uses the For Loop Container with dats?
Thanks in advance for the help!
Hi,
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.
Regards,
Sriram.
Hi,
A very strange thing happened to me. I have a package that includes two For each loop containers. Each container has script tasks, sequence containers, etc. Both are Foreach ADO Enumerator basis. It works without any problems until I changed the position of one of them in the Control flow and added some code in the script task. After these changes I executed the package and both of For each loop containers did not execute the tasks inside of them, any task. However the execution color on the containers was green (success). How can it be?
Your help is much welcome. Thanks in Advance.
João Cruz
Hi
Can anyone point me to an example of using a ForEach Loop Container to step through the rows in a recordset. I cannot seem to see how this is done from the help files.
Thanks
WHAT IS THE USE OF THE FOR LOOP CONTINER
PLEASE GIVE ME THE EXAMPLE
REGARDS
KOTI
Hi,
I am having problem when setting for-each container's EvalExpression as a variable comparison.
I have set this in expression editor
@[User::Syn] == 1
Editor says that it couldnt convert from System.Bool to System.String.
If I put it in quote, then for-each container says that it needs Bool, not String.
Please help me with this,
Thanks
Hi
Currently the ForEach Loop container is set to loop over the entire collection of records in my table, but I only need to loop thru the records where the status = x. How is that possible? Can I use expressions to set the enumerator to do something like this. Basiclly the collection values are used for further processing, and I would like to avoid looping thru records which have been processed already, which means they already have a status set to y. Please let me know. Thanks.
MA
I am trying to move files from one directory to anonther using the For Each Loop Container and a File System Task. However, on the FIRST iteration of the ForEach Loop the variable that I am setting to the 0 index of the For Each Loop is returning me a valid directory with no file ( path only ) from who knows where ????
On the second iteration of the For Each Loop everything works as expected and I get the full path and file name and it iterates through all the files in the directory o.k.
So I have had to put a Hack to skip the fist iteration of the loop and then execute the File Task on the second iteration but I dont see anyone else doing this.
Where in the heck is it getting this odd directory from on the fist iteration ( its not my User varible because I am initializing it to \nowhereofile ). What am I doing wrong?
hi everyone,
I've created a Send Mail task which works properly and now I'd like to send that email n times.
How do I such thing. I moved that task inside Foreach loop container and then I choosen "Foreach From Variable Enumerator" and then I've created a Int32 variable.
And now, I don't know how to tell that increments that variable
TIA,
Hi. I am running a package using 'execute package' inside a for each loop file iteration. I have to iterate through some 10,000s of files to ETL source data, a resonably complex package. I want to set going and get some sleep but every 200 files or so I get a memory exhausted error and the task fails. Is there a short easy fix to refresh memory each iteration. If so please let me know. Just ignoring the failure at task level won't refresh the memory, will it?
Thanks for the help.
Could someone send me any links or information on how to loop through an ADO.NET dataset in SSIS? I need step by step information please.
Thank you,
Shiva
Hi,
My Foreach Loop container has 10 different task inside. I want to execute the first task only one time. I have a variable with increases for each repition. How can I put precedence contstraint on the first task so that it should execute only first time and other task has to execute all the time.
Thanks
Hi All,
Seems like a simple task, but been a struggle.
Simply trying to move a group of files from one folder to another folder and renaming the files with the monthyear in the middle of the filename..
I'm using a FOR Loop container and works find. The added complexity is I'm trying to rename the files the same tine and putting the Month Year into the file name.
I guess the struggle is how to get the file name out so I can manipulate it.
I tried creating variable(V_SOURCE) which stores the file path and create another variable(V_FILENAME) to hold the filename. I believe on the expression page of the FOR LOOP editor if I select the the file name and extension radio button, it should put the file name in the V_FILENAME variable.
In my file task trying to join the two variables together in another variable, keep saying my path is wrong with the file task kicks off.
here's the syntaxt
@[User::V_SourcePath] + @[User::V_FILE_NAME]
With a ForEach container, configured to loop through files in a
directory, if I have a problem with a file.. can I direct the loop to
skip on to the next file?
I'm processing structured files, first record of each is some
header info, body records are in the middle, and then the last record
is a trailer containg a checksum
So, for each file in the directory, I split the records into three raw
files, one for header rec(s) , one for body recs and one for trailer
recs. (based on line numbers and using a conditional split to direct
the records)
Then I start by processing the header recs in a dataflow.. if all goes
well there I move on to the next dataflow to process the body recs from
the DataRecs raw file.. etc...
I would like to do some validation at each processing step.. if a
header rec fails validation say... then I'd like to just stop
processing that file and move onto the next file...
Now, I don't see my validation throwing an exception... so its more
that I'd decide (maybe using an Audit ) that the header doesn't pass
validation.. then I'd like to put a record in an error table (with info
about filename, source etc, not just content of the current data row)
But not sure what approach to take on this...
If there is an appropriate section in BOL please point me at it...
Thanks
PJ