hi all,
i am trying to import data from an excel sheet into sql server. here i am getting an error which states the "EXTERNAL DATABASE IS NOT IN THE EXPECTED FORMAT" what is the expected format? can anyone help me out with this..
thanks..
bel.
I have a report that the user can print right from the RS site on three pages (each page one page wide). However, when I have the server email the report as an attachment in Excel; Excel tries to print it on four pages with one of the pages spilling over into the fourth page.
How can I get Excel to format the print version just as I have on the RS site?
I have the following Excel code that I need to convert to SQL. I have looked (a little) at using cursors to do the looping, but I'm not sure how to define the cursors
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Do While Worksheets("DATA").Cells(sCellRow, 1).Value <> ""
sPartNo = Worksheets("DATA").Cells(sCellRow, 1)
Do While Worksheets("DATA").Cells(sCellRow, 1) = sPartNo
sPartNo = Worksheets("DATA").Cells(sCellRow, 1)
'
' SO #
'
Select Case dCounter
Case 1 To 9
sNextSO = "E" & "0000" & dCounter
Case 10 To 99
sNextSO = "E" & "000" & dCounter
Case 100 To 999
sNextSO = "E" & "00" & dCounter
Case 1000 To 9999
sNextSO = "E" & dCounter
Case 10000 To 99999
sNextSO = dCounter
End Select
'
' PO Line Item
'
Select Case Worksheets("DATA").Cells(dCellRow, 25).Value
Case 1 To 9
sLineItem = "00" & Worksheets("DATA").Cells(dCellRow, 25).Value
Case 10 To 99
sLineItem = "0" & Worksheets("DATA").Cells(dCellRow, 25).Value
Case 100 To 999
sLineItem = Worksheets("DATA").Cells(dCellRow, 25).Value
End Select
Cells(dCellRow, 1).Value = sNextSO
'
' Release #
Cells(dCellRow, 2).Value = dReleaseNum
'
'
' Increment numbers
'
sCellRow = sCellRow + 1
dCellRow = dCellRow + 1
dReleaseNum = dReleaseNum + 1
Loop
dReleaseNum = 1
dCounter = dCounter + 1
Loop
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Thanks
David Davis
Hi all,
I'm having an issue with data from an OLE DB source being converted from numeric [DT_R8] to text when I export it to Excel. I had the column in the spreadsheet formatted as Numeric, but when I set it up as the data destination, it is showing in SSIS as [DT_WSTR].
The SSIS job runs OK, it just converts my numeric data to text in the spreadsheet. I'm surprised that the job actually runs, since I have to do explicit data conversions for my OLE DB string data in order to convert it to unicode. From what I have read elsewhere, the decision was made in SSIS not to use implicit data conversion, but to require explicit conversion. Yet this export is converting my numeric data to text.
I would appreciate any information on how to set up the Excel Destination to properly handle numeric information.
I have created range bar chart and I am not able to achieve the following tasks.
1. Change X-axis Label Format to Quarter:
I have x-axis with dates and y axis of project groups. I have changed x-axis interval type = month and interval=3.
Set the Maximum = Max(ProjectEndDate) and Minimum = Min(ProjectStartDate).
Now my chart showing 3 months x-axis interval dates in mm/dd/yyyy format. I want to change this interval date format to Quarter. The problem is LabelsFormat property is not recognize the "=Q or q or quarter" and also not accepting the expressions. How can I achieve this?
2. Placing series side by side when it is not overlapping
I want to place the same group series side by side only when the previous project end date is less than next project start date, otherwise place the next project to next row. How can I achieve this?
Aim – Convert the following field ”[INSTALLATION_DATE]” date format from “20090709” Into this “2009-07-09” ,
Also create a new column called “BegMonth” which selects first day of the given month of the converted date column
The table is ;
SELECT
[FDMSAccountNo],
[INSTALLATION_DATE]
FROM [FDMS].[dbo].[stg_LMPAB501]
Results
FDMSAccountNoINSTALLATION_DATE
87800000088420030521
Required Results
FDMSAccountNoINSTALLATION_DATEBegMonth
8780000008842003-05-212003-05-01
Hi All
I've been googling this for a while now and can't seem to find any elegant answers.
I'm looking for an automated way to present a FORMATED Excel Spreadsheet to the Customer from a stored procedure output.
Can anyone advise me the best method of doing this - should I / can I assign an Excel Template to the DTS Task output ?
His mind is set on Excel and the formatting is basic and easy to write in a Macro which I've done, but this requires human interaction to finish the task (Automated Run Once on opening etc).
In an ideal world an individual would send an email to the Server with two formated parameters (@FromDate & @ToDate) and would be emailed back a ready formatted S/Sheet. But I believe he would be willing to just select the relevant SpreadSheet for the Daily / Weekly / Monthly periods dumped.
Thanks
GW
Hello,
I am using 'SQL Server 2005 Reporting Service' in my project. I am using sub-reports in many cases. Whenever I export such reports containing sub-reports to 'Excel' format which is the major client requirement in our project, the exported excel file shows 'Subreports within table/matrix cells are ignored.'
Can anybody tell me the solution for this? If not possible in reporting service then is there any other way to get data in excel format?
Thanks.
-Salil
Hi, all here,
I use SQL Server 2005 standard edition ,
I choose to use table(table stored in Oracle9i) as source for mining structure, and I use
Oracle Provider for OLE DB(or Microsoft OLE DB Provider for Oracle).I set one column as logic key and this column stored chinese data.Deployment was successful. When I processed the mining structure,
an error happened:
Warning 0x80202066:Data Flow Task :Connot retieve the column code page info from OLE DB provider.If the comopenent supports the "DefaultCodePage" property,the code page from that property will be used .Change the value of the property if the current string code page values are incorrect. If the component does not support the property, the code page from the component's locale ID will be used.
But I created the same mining stucture and processed it successfully in SQL Server 2000. Is it a Compatible bug in SQL Server 2005？
I'm trying to convert a 6.5 compatible db from SQL Server 2000 to SQL Server 2005. The issue I'm encountering is that:
1. I cannot simply convert the 6.5 compatible db to SQL Server 2005. I tried restoring from a backup - no success.
2. I tried creating the structure in SQL Server 2005 and then importing the data from SQL Server 2000. Problem is - after importing the data, I then tried creating the primary key and indexes - get a time-out error (which I never got with SQL Server 2000.) I also tried creating the primary key and indexes in SQL Server 2005 FIRST before importing - got errors when trying to import and import failed.
I know this sounds like a data problem but I have no problems working with this 3 gig database in SQL Server 2000.
Can anyone please help? This is a pretty serious problem I need to overcome with the SQL Server 2005 conversion.
Hi,My webhost (1and1) is running SQL Server 2000 and their web tool supports the import of .bak files. However, when I try to import my .bak files created in SQL Server Management Studio Express I get the following error:"The backed-up database has on-disk structure version 611. The server
supports version 539 and cannot restore or upgrade this database.
RESTORE FILELIST is terminating abnormally."I have Googled this error and learnt that 2005 .bak files are not compatible with 2000 .bak files. I'm just wondering if there are any work arounds to this or alternative tools that I can create 2000 compatible .bak files from from 2000/2005 .mdf files.Thanks in advance.
Hi,
Pls let me know if SQL Server 2005 Management Studio (client tools only) is compatible with Windows Server 2000 or not?
Thanks in advance.
Regards,
Bhuvana
Hi There
Can anyone confirm whether SQL Server 2005 Express edition SP2 is compatible with Windows Server 2003 SP 2? The SQL Server 2005 Express readme only mentions 2003 SP1.
Thanks
Mark.
Hi There
Can anyone confirm whether SQL Server 2005 Express edition SP2 is compatible with Windows Server 2003 SP 2? The SQL Server 2005 Express readme only mentions 2003 SP1.
Thanks
Mark.
I have been having tremendous trouble getting OLEDB connections to Sybase that I use within SQL Server 2000 and SQL Server 2005 to work properly - they always seem to revert to the older, third party Sybase drivers if they are installed on the machine and just generally cause problems - I have given up on using them within an SSIS package all together and gone down another route.
Can anyone confirm to me whether or not this is because the version 15 native drivers that Sybase provide are not supported by SQL Server, please?
Thank you
If my client has a SQL Server 2005 Standard Edition license, can they use that license for a SQL Server 2000 Standard Edition installation?
thanks for any help...
I tried to install SQL SERVER 2005 through SQLEVAL64 (IA64) on Window vista 2007, Intel core 2 duo processor. Like many other software (including my lexmark printer driver), SQL SERVER 2005 does not seem to be working. Anyone has any work around solution or had similar experience ?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI never noticed it before, but I am now using Management Studio to administer our sql databases and the issue became apparent. One of the databases located on a sql 2000 server, says "6.5 compatible", when viewed from Management Studio (but not from Enterprise Manager).
What are the step needed to upgrade the database? (I think I need to run the Sql 2005 Upgrade Advisor first, fix any errors found, then manually change compatibility mode (to 80) from the sql 2000 server where the database is located. )
TIA,
Barkingdog
while connecting to Reporting Services from Mangament Studio getting following error
"The attempt to connect to the report server failed. Check your connection information and that the report server is a compatible version. (Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.UI.RSClient)"
any ideas???
We are converted our DTS 2000 packages to Sql Server 2005 SSIS. I am getting following error on my ActiveX script that got converted. I am new to SSIS and DTS. Never ever worked with ActiveX also. So any help would be appreciated. Following is the script followed by error I get:
'**********************************************************************
' Visual Basic ActiveX Script
'************************************************************************
Function Main()
Dim oPkg
SET oPkg = DTSGlobalVariables.Parent
SET stpBeginJob = oPkg.Steps("DTSStep_DTSActiveScriptTask_1")
SET stpFinishedJob = oPkg.Steps("DTSStep_DTSActiveScriptTask_3")
IF DTSGlobalVariables("Count").Value > 0 THEN
stpFinishedJob.DisableStep = True
stpBeginJob.ExecutionStatus = DTSStepExecStat_Waiting
ELSE
stpFinishedJob.DisableStep = False
stpFinishedJob.ExecutionStatus = DTSStepExecStat_Waiting
END IF
Main = DTSTaskExecResult_Success
End Function
Error I get Is:
[ActiveX Script Task] Error: Retrieving the file name for a component failed with error code 0x000A39BC.
Thank You
Hi
I'm trying to export data to an excel spreadsheet in a csv format. Is this possible in SQL?
Thanks,
Missy.
Hi all i'm having an issues when i trying to do a report:
i make a report and there is a field which contains data that can be numeric and numeric with letter: "77756" or "345WS" when i export my report to excel i and i open it i get like a make in the upper left coner of the cells that have only numbers asking me to convert this to numeric format, but this think is that i need this values to be string so i can apply filtering. is there a way that i can format my cell to string so the excel take it like that and allowme to do the autoifilter.
I would really appriciate your Help
Thanks
In my report I have used the "jump to url" for the report output but when I export this to excel I get a column with the correct data and also the url.
Is there anyway of exporting the data without the url?
I want my users to be able to view the report and click on the column the want to URL jump to but also be able to export just the raw data without the URL?
I am using SQL Server Reporting Services 2005.
In one of report i am calling sub report which independently renders in excel format without problem but when it is called in main report as SubReport in Data Table Cell in that cell its giving error message Subreports within table/matrix cells are ignored.
While rendering to PDF format it is working fine.I have problem only in excel format renderings..
I am importing a text file with a column (serial numbers) with alphanumeric data, some mixed and some only numeric. The very large values that are all numeric are being converted to exponential when I run it thru an import package in SQL Server Integration Services (2005)
Ex. 4110041233214321 --> 4110040000000000 (displays as 4.11E+15)
In the past I dealt with this by importing the text file into Excel and changing the format of the column to number. This works even when many of the values contain alpha characters. I am not sure how to accomplish this same thing without going thru Excel. If you have any ideas on this I would be happy to hear from you.
I am importing the text file into a sql table.
Has anyone had experience formatting an excel file (i.e. run a macro) after it is (created &) outputted from a DTS package?
Also an easier question:
What is the best (easiest) way to create a unique filename in Excel with a datetimestamp in the file name (i.e. MyFile-20040608.xls)
Thanks!
Hi,
I have a dts package which is reading from a sql table and writing it to an excel file, its working fine except that I have a decimal field in the sql table but in excel file its writing it as string field.
The way I create this package is that I create a template file and I format that column to a "Number" format. Then I take this template file, rename it, export all the data to this file.
But when I open this file that decimal field is displayed as a string column and its left aligned.
Is there any way to fix this problem?
Thanks,
Hi,
I have a problem when exporting a report to Excel.
The problem is with the custom formatting. The report has a field named amount with its format property = C (on the properties window of the textbox in the report designer). When the user exports the report everything seems ok, calculations and so on... but the problem is when from another workbook a cell makes a reference to the cell amount of the exported report. The exported report, has this format [$-1010409]$#,##0.00;($#,##0.00) on the amount cell. In fact every format type of the report designer, begins with [$-1010409].
To reproduce this error:
Make a simple rdl with a textbox format C. Export it to excel. Create a new workbook and make a cell reference to the exported report formated textbox cell (='\ComputerFolder[ExportedReport.xls]Sheet1'!$E$15). Close the exported report and the new workbook, open the new workbook (not the exported one) and update the reference. Results in a #Ref error.
Tnx of your time and effort.
Sorry for my bad english.
G
Hi,
I have a problem with the number format when i export my reports to excel with Reporting Services. I set numbers as currency with the command FormatCurrency() in visual studio, but when i export the report to excel, the numbers are considered as text.
Does anyone have a solution?
Thanks in advance.
Hi, I have one column of data which is 15.678 but in the excel, i format it to 15.68 ( two decimal place, so in excel i should see 15.68), when i am trying to import the data from excel to sql server by using odbc connection, it still getting 15.678, how can i get the data from 15.678 to 15.68 ( what i see is wat i get). Thanks for help.
View 7 Replies View RelatedHi,
I'm currently having problems exporting formatted dates from reporting services 2005 to excel.
Basically what I require is a way to format a date in reporting services so that it only shows the date without the time (preferably british format) and when it is exported to excel it is still formatted as a date.
This is so the user can sort the data file via date, I appreciate it is easy to select the column and format the cells but i would prefer to have a 'cleaner' solution to this problem which avoids the need for users to be formatting exported reports.
Originally I was formatting the dates as convert(varchar,@date,103) in the SP which converts it to a character string and excel picks this up as a character as would be expected. So I changed this to a date and set about trying to format the date in Reporting Services, so far i've been unsuccesfull using cdate (brings back the time) and format as it again converts it to a character string.
Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated,
R
I have a task where the source data is coming in via Excel. There is a field that contains a percentage (i.e. 100%, 90%, etc). When the connection is added to the data flow stream and is read, that column is coming in as a double precision float. The 100% is coing in as 1. I have tried going to the advanced editor and changing the column to a WSTR, but it is not having any effect. Short of having the sender change the file to a .csv (which will induce other problems I'll have to code out), how can I force the column format in an Excel connection?
View 2 Replies View RelatedHi all,
I have created a package which import data from excel file and do some technical & business validation on the data. My package has about 20 control flow items. Now I'm asked to handle a second (and probably more in the future) excel file format (columns name are different, some fields are murged in one single column...).
I definitely don't want to create a different package for each excel file format. But I can't find a way in the control flow to execute a particular DataFlow in one case and another DataFlow in other cases. Typically I would like to evaluate an expression an depending on the result execute a DataFlow or another one. Even in a given DataFlow I cant find a way to have a condition and process different Excel Source depending on an expression result. Or it would be good if I could say to my Excel Source to discover the columns name and types at runtime and let me manage the columns manually in the data flow. Is that possible ? I know SSIS manage metadata on the columns based on the data source is there any way to manage the metadata manually ? I coulnd't find anything about that in BOL.
I guess an easy workaround is to have a different package just to import the different excel files in a common staging table and each package calls a single package which contains all technical & business validation.
Any help will be appreciated.
Kind regards,
Sébastien.