Writing Variables On Flat Files
Aug 3, 2007Hi,
I'm trying to write the content of variables on flat files... is that possible?
Thanks!
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WRITING TO A FLAT FILE
Dec 18, 2007
Hi
I have a data flow task where I have to write to a flat file. It works fine for me. But the thing is next timeI run the package it must write the data in the OLDEB source to a different copy. Usually the data is overwritten or appended to already existing data. What I want is everytime the package is run the data must be written to a different copy.
Thanks
Sai Abhiram Bandhakavi
Writing Text To A Flat File
Jul 11, 2007I have a Foreach loop which scans a table, and gets names of a bunch of procedures, and then back in the foreach loop, they get executed. Im trying to figure out how I can create a sort of log file to say the name of the procedure that is getting executed currently and the current date time stamp onto a flat file. I havent been able to figure this out yet..anyone know how to do this? I grab the names of the storedprocedures from the table and store it in a variable and use the name from the variable to actually execute the stored procedure.
I guess in essence, the question is how do i directly write lines of 'text' (from say a variable) into a flat file.
Reading And Writing To Flat File
Apr 27, 2006I'm doing a test package which reads a flat file, makes an adjustment using the derived column task and writes to the same flat file. But, the read locks the flat file, so the write can't access it. Any ideas for a resolution?
Thanks,
Dave
Problem Writing To Flat File
Dec 19, 2007
Hi,
I am writing to a flat file. When the data is written to a flat file the columns have to be tilde seperated i.e ~.
What I am doing is I am taking a destintaion text file and having all the columns as tild seperated. Is there any way I can
avoid doing this. That is I should not mention couluns in the text file.
Lastly I want the columns to have a width that is fixed.
How I can do this.
Thanks
Sai
Writing To Flat File (CSV) - Duplicate Headers
Dec 2, 2006I'm writing to a flat file destination (CSV file) which contains 2 header rows, lets call it Col1 and Col2.
For some reason, the header rows seem to get duplicated in the output - i.e.
Col1,Col2
A,B
Col1,Col2
C,D
Is there any way to resolve this?
I don't want the file to be overwritten everytime since its used for record-keeping purposes.
Thanks
Writing A Header Row To A Flat File Destination
Sep 18, 2006I'm unable to figure out how to write a column header to my flat file destination. My source is a OLE DB SQL query and I need the column names as a header row in my text file destination. This seems easy but the closet I can find is hardcoding the column header row in the header property. Is this the only option?
Thanks
Writing Into The FLAT FILE When Derived Column Fails
Aug 30, 2007Flat file is the source for to load the data into a table. I am using "Derived Column Component" for the data validation.
"Derived Column Component" Fails then i am writing/redirecting the records into the Flat File using "Flat File Destination" component.
It works fine except the following the issue.
Issue:
The derived columun value (that cause an error) is not get inserted into the Flat File
Scenario:
the data comes as "000000" and tring to convert to date format
(DT_DATE)("20" + RIGHT(Check_Date,2) + "/" + SUBSTRING(Check_Date,1,LEN(Check_Date) - 4) + "/" + SUBSTRING(Check_Date,LEN(Check_Date) - 3,2))
The above expression is working fine, except the data 000000 not passed into the Flat File Destination.
Pls advise. Thank you.
Writing Parent/Child Records To Flat File
Mar 19, 2007I have a set of parent/child records that need to be exported to a space delimited Flat File. Each parent record must be followed by 3 child records, each on their own line with different format.
I have a prototype using the Derived Column component that concatinates the various fields of each record into one "wide" text column. This fools SSIS to think that each row has the same format. Then I merge them together using an artificial sort id. But this seems overly tedious and very brittle.
What would be the best approach to writing these records out? I'm hoping there is a better more maintainable method.
Thanks,
Jon
Writing To A Delimited Flat File But With My Choice Of The Delimiter.
Sep 21, 2006
Hi Folks,
I would like to write my table to a delimited file but I seem to have no choice but to use comma as the delimiter. Is there any way I can choose the delimiter ?
Thanks.
Sid
Padding And Writing To A Fixed Format Flat File!
Apr 18, 2007Hi,
I am trying to write to a fixed format flat file using Flat File Destination Data Flow Component. I have all required information gathered from more than one sources. But when I tried to format the columns to a big string that will make up one line in the flat file, I could not figure out how to do that. Couple of issues that I am facing are:
How to padd different columns? For example, One interger column has could be 1 to 10 character long in my case. When I convert to string, dont know how to padd the remaining characters i.e. if the value of integer is '1234', it should be written to file as '1234 ' . Which transformation is best in this case, if available?
How to convert T-SQL datetime to a specific date and time format to write in the flate file? I have to write these date formats depending upon one of the parameters passed.
Also, I dont want to put a delimiter at the end of each column, just the new line characters at the end of each record.
Some of the columns has some unwanted characters (like new line characters) how to find them and remove them from the string.
Can we directly write columns to a specific position in the flat file? e.g. col 1 a position 1 and col2 starts at postion 20 etc.
Your co-operation will be appreciated.
Thanks,
Paraclete
SSIS: Set Header Printed When Writing To A Flat File From A Variable
Jun 13, 2007I have a variable defined as "Country". Based on the value, the header row printed needs to be different.
I've already created a 'HeaderRow' variable that I'm able to set using a script task. But how can you set the Header text value at run time from the variable? There is no expression defined for the Header with the Flat File Destination object, and when I attempt to reference the HeaderRow variable as the Header text, the variable name is printed as the header.
Another approach I tried was to write the Header Row separately through another data flow task, but the issue here is: what is the input source when all you have is a Country variable?
Writing Data From Multiple Tables To A Single Flat File
Sep 13, 2005I have a package that contains three database tables (Header, detail and trailer record) each table is connected via a OLE DB source in SSIS. Each table varies in the amount of colums it holds and niether of the tables have the same field names. I need to transfer all data, from each table, in order, to a flat file destination.
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Apr 24, 2006We are using an ADO.NET provider in SSIS to read data from a SQL Server 2000 table that contains DateTime columns to write to a Flat File Destination. When the date values are written to the file they are formatted in TimeStamp to the 10th decimal position; e.g.€œ2006-04-24 12:00:00.123000000€?. Since SQL Server supports values to Timestamp(3), we need to truncate the last seven zeros to put the data in this format €œ2006-04-24 12:00:00.123€? to keep the file as small as possible.
Since we have several hundred DateTime columns in scope for our requirements we are looking for the least logic/effort to accomplish this task. We can do this via Data Conversion and Derived Column transformations to cast the dates and strings but it is very labor intensive. It would be something like singing 99 bottles of beer on the wall eight times in a row with each verse taking 3 minutes each. Yikes.
We have tried casting the DateTime columns to varchar in the SELECT statement but receive this format €œApr 24 2006 12:22PM€?.
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Writing Byte Stream To Flat File Destination (ebcdic)
Nov 9, 2007Hello all,
I was trying to run a test to write a ebcdic file out with a comp - 3 number (testing this for other people) and have run into a problem writing the string out to the flat file destination. I have the following script component:
Code Block
' Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services user script component
' This is your new script component in Microsoft Visual Basic .NET
' ScriptMain is the entrypoint class for script components
Imports System
Imports System.Data
Imports System.Math
Imports Microsoft.SqlServer.Dts.Pipeline.Wrapper
Imports Microsoft.SqlServer.Dts.Runtime.Wrapper
Public Class ScriptMain
Inherits UserComponent
Public Overrides Sub CreateNewOutputRows()
'
' Add rows by calling AddRow method on member variable called "Buffer"
' E.g., MyOutputBuffer.AddRow() if your output was named "My Output"
'
Output0Buffer.AddRow()
Dim myByteArray() As Byte = {&H12, &H34, &H56, &H7F}
Output0Buffer.myByteStream = myByteArray
Output0Buffer.myString = "ABCD"
Output0Buffer.myString2 = "B123"
myByteArray = Nothing
End Sub
End Class
I have added myByteStream as a DT_BYTES length 4, myString as (DT_STR, 4, 37) and myString2 as (DT_STR, 4, 37) to the output 0 buffer.
I then add a flat file destination with code set 37 (ebcdic us / canda) with the corresponding columns using fixed width.
When i place a dataviewer on the line between the two the output looks as I expect ("0x12 0x34 0x56 0x7F", "ABCD", "B123"). However, when it gets to the flat file destination it errors out with the following:
Code Block
[Flat File Destination [54]] Error: Data conversion failed. The data conversion for column "myByteStream" returned status value 4 and status text "Text was truncated or one or more characters had no match in the target code page.".
If i increase the size of the byte stream (say, to 50) the error goes away but I am left with the string "1234567F" instead of the appropriate hex values. Any clues on how to go about this? I obviously don't care if it gets transferred to "readable" text as this is supposed to be a binary stream, thus the no match in target page seems superfulous but is probably what is causing the problems.
NOTE: this is relating to the following thread (http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=2300539&SiteID=1) in that I am trying to determine why these people are not seeing the "UseBinaryFormat" when importing an EBCDIC file (i see this fine when i use an ftp'd file, but it auto converts to ascii) with comp-3 values. I also see the "UseBinaryFormat" when I am importing a regular EBCDIC file which I create that has no import errors with zoned decimals.
Writing Files To A Database
Feb 7, 2007Hi, I'm relatively new to SQL and ASP.NET and I'm after some assistance to what I hope is an easily achievable goal.
I need to upload some files (.pdf, .doc, .jpg - whatever) to a directory on my webserver. Once this has been done, I'd like to write some data to an SQL Database Table that will contain information about these files in a datagrid (or something similar) along with a link to download them.
E.g I upload car.jpg which is located at /images/secure/car.jpg and is a photo of car. When a user logs in, they will be shown a datagrid which pulls information from said SQL database and in this datagrid will be something like:
Filename Description Link
car.jpg A pic of a car Download
If anyone is able to help me out with regards to linking to a file from an SQL dB it would be greatly appreciated, and if you require any further information just let me know :)
Ben.
Problem Writing XML Files.
Sep 6, 2005Hi guys,I have a stored procedure that I will subsequently post below thismessage. What the stored procedure does is, it reads some specifictables in a database and created XML off it.The problem comes in when the data is bigger than a few hundred/thousand characters. The data is truncated and the XML file is notfully made.Now i have been reading some posts by some people and tried using TEXT/NTEXT/ IMAGE type to write the files but they give me errors which,again, I am adding to this email.STORED PROC:****************************CREATE PROCEDURE usrp_sp_makexmlfile@str varchar(50),@templatefile varchar(255),@ReturnValue as image OUTASSET NOCOUNT ONDECLARE @strVar as varchar(8000)/*DECLARE @ReturnValue as varchar(255)*/Set @strVar = 'Select * from ' + @str + ' FOR XML AUTO'Set @templatefile = 'c: emplate.tpl'EXEC (@strVar)SELECT @ReturnValueGOTHIS IS WHAT I GET WHEN I USE IMAGE/NTEXT/TEXT TYPE:************************************************** *******An unhandled exception of type 'System.InvalidOperationException'occurred in system.data.dllAdditional information: Parameter 2: '@ReturnValue' of type: Byte[],the property Size has an invalid size: 0Also, if i try to add an integer value to the image/text/ntext like8000 or something less than that, it tells me that the result has to bediscarded because the current process has had some error.Can someone give me a suggestion on how to resolve this or an examplethat would illustrate the solution? Thank you all in advance.Pi.
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Sep 7, 2005Hi guys,I have been trying to write data from a database to XML files andalthough i have been successful in doing that, the file(s) that are madeare not of the form that I would want.I am using:SQLDataSet.WriteXml(strFileName, XmlWriteMode.WriteSchema);to generate the files where strFileName is the name of the file. Thefiles when viewed with XML Editor are seen as lines of data instead ofthe regularly generated XML where each row is one below the other. Whenviewed with WordPad/Notepad i see elements />< betweeen the dataand somehow I think this has to do something with the problem.Can someone help me with this?? Any help or suggestion would be greatlyappreciated.Thanks.*** Sent via Developersdex http://www.developersdex.com ***
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Dec 20, 2006Hi
Coming straight to the problem -
I need to write text files of the size more than 1GB! First thought of doing this with BCP but then fetching data from stored proc was taking too long (more than one hour) and so BCP did not seem to be the right option as we have less flexiblity in terms - handling errors, knowing the status as to what point the writing has been complete etc. Most importantly getting such a huge amount of data did not seem to be a one time job! So I am now thinking about writing a CLR procedure which fetches smaller amount of data at a time and writing to file. Something like - open connection, get data, close connection, write to file and continue in cycles of this till whole file is written. Does this makes sense considering the amount of data to be fetched?
Any suggestion/comment on this will be much helpful!
Incremental Output In QA And Writing To Files
Jul 20, 2005Hi;Before I start let me say I know this is a silly way to go aboutthings, but it is one of those "my company made me do it" things.My company is in the process of ( finishing ) migrating from foxpro tosqlserver.They have a foxpro program that does a lot of various updates. Iwould like to write a tsql script to replace it.The trick is that the tsql script would have to have some proceduralprogramming artifacts that I don't think it has.I/my company would like the script to generate output messages thatthe user can see while the script is running. Everytime I have ran ascript in query analyzer I usually don't see the output ("print"statemetns, etc ) until all of the work isdone. Is there a way to run thing so I can see the output statementsas the work is being done?Can print statements work from within a tsql loop?The other thing is that I/my company wants the tsql script to writeoutput messages to a log file while it is operating ( for errorchecking and other logging).Is this possible with tsql?Thanks in advance for the infoSteve
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Aug 18, 2006
I am having a scenario where all the stored procedures are stored in a folder (one sql file per sproc). Stored procedure does not have 'IF Exists .... DROP Procedure' in the script so before creating them we have to drop all sproc manually.
Can anyone help me writing a script / SSIS process to loop through each file in folder and write "IF EXISTS ... DROP PROCEDURE" with the procedure name in it ??
I can create a package that loop through each file in FOR each Loop task but dont know how to write in file using .net
Thanks in advance
Furrukh baig
Reading/writing Files To Network Drive
Mar 20, 2007We have a package that is using a ForEach loop container to access files on a network drive. For some reason I am getting a message that the ForEach enumerator is empty and did not find any files that matched the pattern. For the pattern I left the default *.* for testing purposes. I have specified the file folder as \remoteserverfilesharesubfolder and also as \remoteserverc$filesharesubfolder and have gotten the same message. However when I map a network drive and set the file folder to the network drive it finds the files. Is this a permissions issue?
After I finish processing the file I want to move it to a new directory. Once this is deployed in production, the package will not be running under a domain account and probably won't have access to the network folder. Is there any way to specifiy in the connection manager itself that it should use a specific account to access the folder?
TIA,
Sabrina
Read Of Flat File, Some Data On 1st Row Should Be Stored In Variables
Apr 7, 2008I'm reading a Flat File.
The 1ste record containts special Info that is needed for first preparing the database on a buld insert of the remaining lines.
How could i realize this, just read 1 line, store some of that data into variables, execute some proc's and then read the rest of the file ?
Kind Regards.
Writing A DTXS Package To Extract 50 Tables To 50 Text Files?
Nov 26, 2007Is there a quick way to extract a full dump of 50 tables to 50 corresponding text files?
i.e.
table_a has to be extracted to table_a.txt
table_b has to be extracted to table_b.txt
table_c has to be extracted to table_c.txt
etc.
I don't want to have to add each one separately by hand in the DTSX package designer.
I can't see any way to do it in a loop (because you have to do the field mapping).
I can't seem to get the DTS Wizard to help - it only seems to be able to handle one table-to-text extract at any one time.
And I've tried editing the DTXS file directly (in XML) but it looks like it's going to be rather complex, even if I only do it to define the connection managers.
Feel free to suggest any better way to do this, though the specification has already been agreed, so I'm unlikely to be able to change it.
Thanks
Writing Sqlcmd Batch Files To Do Bulkfile Copies Or Imports
Sep 23, 2007I want to write a batch file that will do just that. The problem is bcp or bulkcopy never works with my code, it doesn't recognize it. Maybe I'm going the wrong way to do this, but I could use some help. Ideally I'll make the batch to do the importing via bulkcopy or something like it of a text file into a table and use windows scheduler to automate it. Be as specific as you can please, I'm very new to sql server.
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Feb 22, 2006Hi ..
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Dec 5, 2000I have some Large flat fiiles that I need to export to my SQL Server database. The file sizes range from 16 MB to 116 MB. I've tried to save the files to an excel sread sheet and then export them in that format, but that didn't work. does anyone have any suggestions?
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Feb 7, 2007hi all
i using SSIS to import flat files and i need support
how can i import flat file from folder inculed many files and when finish start to next and next .....
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thanks
Need Help Importing Flat Files
Jan 24, 2008Hello Everyone.
I am a bit new to SQL Server but not to DBA or programming per se. I am having difficulties getting either an Excel or Text flat file to import properly.
I guess it would be best to ask, using either SSIS or BULK INSERT, what options need to be entered for a typical excel flat file?
How Do I Store Flat Files
Oct 18, 2006In my application I am allowing the users attach files. I found the data type "Image", Will this also allow regular file attachments?
Thanks,
Steve C.
How Can I Store Flat Files In SQL SERVER??
Sep 25, 2005How can I store flat files in SQL SERVER??
Actually I am planning to prepare a repository of different files like .xls, .pdf, .doc, .ppt etc and then i will have a web interface to access these files. Can anybody guide me, How can i store these flat files in datbase.
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Aug 1, 2006I'm trying to input a few thousand flat files into a few thousand tables in a sql databaseim using integration services with a for each loop to read all the files in a directorythe problem is i can only insert the data from all the files into one tabledoes anyone know a way to do multiple tables? maybe using some sort of variable?
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