Basic Text File Data Flow Source
Jun 7, 2007
In DTS 2000 I had a situation where I had a text file as input source and text file as output source. On migrating the package to 2005 it puts a wrapper around it which executes it as a 2000 package, the rest of the tasks are neatly converted to 2005 style tasks. I presume this to mean that this will not be supported through to the next version, and there is no direct equivalent in 2005.
My question is how do I import a non-flat file source which has different numbers of columns per line. I did ,somehow, manage to do this with 2000 but cannot seem to get anywhere with 2005.
The flat file source seems to be expecting a common number of columns and just can't seem to cope with no column delimiters on some lines. If anybody knows different I would be glad to hear about it.
Raw data is not helpful to me as only works with a specific raw type (apparently)
Went onto Bulk Insert Task but got this message
[Bulk Insert Task] Error: An error occurred with the following error message: "Cannot fetch a row from OLE DB provider "BULK" for linked server "(null)".The OLE DB provider "BULK" for linked server "(null)" reported an error. The provider did not give any information about the error.Bulk load: An unexpected end of file was encountered in the data file.".
Have already browsed with this on web but only find comments about changing timeout setting.
Can find timeout settings in DataFlow source and DataFlow destinations but not in Bulk Insert Task.
As you can see this is a long and protracted question.
If the answer is simple I apologise if not blame Microsoft. Other than that have found SSIS has some nice improvements, apart from the odd vague error message I keep coming across.
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Feb 13, 2008
At our business we are getting a lot of PDF documents that are being hand keyed into a database. Has anyone heard ior know of a SSIS Data Flow Source component that I coud use to read thos documents into a data stream (?) and process?
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Jan 14, 2008
All,
I'm having an issue with the Flat File Data Flow Source returning only a limited set of the rows that are in the flat file. Basically, I connect to the flat file fine, it goes to retrieve the data (tab delimited file) and only returns 190 of 392 rows. Is there a limitation on the # of rows this data flow source can retrieve or something? I've look all through the settings and properties of the task as well as the connection manager and nothing is obvious as to what is causing this. Hopefully someone ou tthere has run into this before and can help me retrieve all rows. Thanks in advance!
bakerz
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Mar 7, 2008
Hi all,
I have a package that does simple exporting from an excel sheet to a table.
I used a Dataflow task with Excel Source and OLEDB Destination Components.
And i created Package configurations for Source and Destination Components.
After than when i execute the package i get the following error.
Information: 0x40016041 at ProductDetails_Import: The package is attempting to configure from the XML file "D:TEST_ETLLPL_Config2.dtsConfig".
Information: 0x40016041 at ProductDetails_Import: The package is attempting to configure from the XML file "D:TEST_ETLDBCon2.dtsConfig".
SSIS package "ProductDetails_Import.dtsx" starting.
Information: 0x4004300A at Data Flow Task, DTS.Pipeline: Validation phase is beginning.
Error: 0xC0202009 at ProductDetails_Import, Connection manager "Excel Connection Manager": SSIS Error Code DTS_E_OLEDBERROR. An OLE DB error has occurred. Error code: 0x80040E21.
An OLE DB record is available. Source: "Microsoft OLE DB Service Components" Hresult: 0x80040E21 Description: "Multiple-step OLE DB operation generated errors. Check each OLE DB status value, if available. No work was done.".
Error: 0xC020801C at Data Flow Task, Excel Source [1]: SSIS Error Code DTS_E_CANNOTACQUIRECONNECTIONFROMCONNECTIONMANAGER. The AcquireConnection method call to the connection manager "Excel Connection Manager" failed with error code 0xC0202009. There may be error messages posted before this with more information on why the AcquireConnection method call failed.
Error: 0xC0047017 at Data Flow Task, DTS.Pipeline: component "Excel Source" (1) failed validation and returned error code 0xC020801C.
Error: 0xC004700C at Data Flow Task, DTS.Pipeline: One or more component failed validation.
Error: 0xC0024107 at Data Flow Task: There were errors during task validation.
SSIS package "ProductDetails_Import.dtsx" finished: Failure.
The program '[2416] ProductDetails_Import.dtsx: DTS' has exited with code 0 (0x0).
I have been trying to troubleshoot the error message given below from last evening.
I have been trying to troubleshoot the error from last morning.
Counld not figure out what is causing this error to occur.
Please help!!!!
Any pointersSuggestions would be highly appreciated.
Thanks & Regards
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Mar 11, 2008
How do i use the foreach loop container and pass each file found according to a specified pattern to a Flat File Source in a Data Flow Task Object so i can operate on each file found in the foreach loop object instead of having to specify a static file name
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Nov 2, 2006
I'm importing a large csv file two different ways - one with Bulk Import Task and the other way with the Data Flow Task (flat file source -> OLE DB destination).
With the Bulk Import Task I'm putting all the csv rows in one column. With the Data Flow Task I'm mapping each csv value to it's own column in the SQL table.
I used two different flat file sources and got the following:
Flat file 1: Bulk Import Task = 12,649,499 rows; Data Flow Task = 4,215,817 rows
Flat file 2: Bulk Import Task = 3,403,254 rows; Data Flow Task = 1,134,359 rows
Anyone have any guess as to why this is happening?
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Jul 25, 2006
I am facing one problem with sql 2005 SSIS while uploading a "||" seperated text file with Data Flow in SSIS.Below I am giving the sample data of the text file
data||data||data
data||data||data
When I uploaded it using sql 2000 DTS it was not giving and it was being uploaded into the table but when I tried with SQL 2005 it is giving the below problem.
"[Flat File Source [1]] Error: Data conversion failed. The data conversion for column "Column 2" returned status value 4 and status text "Text was truncated or one or more characters had no match in the target code page.". "
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Jan 2, 2007
Hi Guys,
I
have a flat file which is loaded into the database on a daily basis.
The file contains rows of strings which I load into a table,
specifically to a column of length 8000.
The string has a length of 690, but the format is like 'xxxxxx xx xx..'
and so on, where 'xxxx' represents data. So there are spaces, etc present in the middle.
Previously
I used SQL 2000 DTS to load the files in, and it was just a Column
Transformation with the Col001 from the text file loading straight to
my table column. After the load, if I select len(col) it gives me 750
for all rows.
Once I started to migrate this to SSIS, I
allocated the Control Flow Task and specified the flat file source and
the oledb destination, and gave the output column a type of String and
output column width of 8000. But when I run the data flow task it
copies only 181 or 231 characters out of the 750 required.
I feel it stops where it finds the SPACES and skips the rest.
I
specified row delimiters or CR, and LF. I checked the file under
UltraEdit and there were no special characters in the file that would
cause the problem.
Any suggestions how I can get it to load the full data?
Thanks
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Jun 16, 2015
We have created SSIS package to load a text file into a table. Source system shares 10 text files and recently they stopped generating data for one of the text file (comping empty), after few months they will start generating the data for the empty file batch processing.
The Issue here is Data Flow task is getting failed while loading empty text file into table. How to handle this empty file load issue in SSIS package.
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Feb 15, 2008
I'm having problems designing a package to attempt to execute a fast load data transfer but failback to regular speed with error redirection in the event of an error.
The way I designed this was to add one data flow task to my package called "DFT FASTLOAD". The data flow copies a table SRC to another table DEST in the same SQL Server database. In the error handler for the data flow task I copied the original data flow task and changed the name to "DFT REGULARLOAD with Error redirection". In this data flow task I did not use fast load and addtionally redirected errors to a text file.
In the Data Flow Task "DFT FASTLOAD". I am copying from a varchar source field(with non-date strings) to a datetime destination field to force errors. However the Data Flow Task "DFT REGULARLOAD with Error redirection" never seems to start transferring data from source to destination. The data Flow Task "DFT REGULARLOAD with Error redirection" turns yellow (after the error occurs in "DFT FASTLOAD"), but no data is being transferred). It seems like it hangs.
Do I need to increase the MaximumError Count or something? The data flow task "DFT FASTLOAD" does not turn red when the error occurs it just remains yellow, so i assume I'm on the right track since it seems the error is caught.
I have added screenshots ... hopefully these screenshots will clarify my problem.
DESIGN:
http://i256.photobucket.com/albums/hh179/abzbank/DESIGN_FASTLOAD1.jpg
http://i256.photobucket.com/albums/hh179/abzbank/DESIGN_FASTLOAD2.jpg
http://i256.photobucket.com/albums/hh179/abzbank/DESIGN_FASTLOAD3.jpg
http://i256.photobucket.com/albums/hh179/abzbank/DESIGN_FASTLOAD4.jpg
http://i256.photobucket.com/albums/hh179/abzbank/DESIGN_FASTLOAD5.jpg
http://i256.photobucket.com/albums/hh179/abzbank/DESIGN_FASTLOAD6.jpg
RUNTIME:
http://i256.photobucket.com/albums/hh179/abzbank/RUN_FASTLOAD7.jpg
http://i256.photobucket.com/albums/hh179/abzbank/RUN_FASTLOAD8.jpg
http://i256.photobucket.com/albums/hh179/abzbank/RUN_FASTLOAD9.jpg
http://i256.photobucket.com/albums/hh179/abzbank/RUN_FASTLOAD10.jpg
http://i256.photobucket.com/albums/hh179/abzbank/RUN_FASTLOAD11.jpg
I can provide more details if needed... but really this is just a basic test.
Any assistance would be appreciated!
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Sep 7, 2007
Hi All,
I have this very big text file (2.5 GB - which of course I am not able to open). This resides on a server which has SQL 2005.
I have created a linked server for this text file on my SQL database, and when I try to query the table, I get an error:
Cannot initialize the data source object of OLE DB provider "Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0" for linked server "txtsrv".
Why am I getting this error? When I make a dummy linked server on my local machine and test the steps it all works OK. but when I go to this server where the file and it's SQL instance is lying, I get this error. Please can someone provide me with some help on this?
Many thanks,
~S
P.S. Here is how I created the linked server (I also have the Schema.ini lying under the same folder):
EXEC sp_addlinkedserver txtsrv, 'Jet 4.0',
'Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0',
'C:SSAnalysis',
NULL,
'Text'
GO
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Apr 2, 2007
Hi Mates,
I am unable to fetch data from Source which is CSV file whose sample contents are given below:
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"Fiscal year";"Posting period";"Company Code";"Functional area";"Profit Center";"Business area";"Group Account";"Posting Level";"Document Type";"Accounting Principle";"Cost Pool";"Financial Owner";"Period Value GC"
"2006";"12";"AR00";"A107";"P1131";"7200";"3410";"10";"18";"GAAP";"#";"#";"$ 0.00"
"2006";"12";"AR00";"A107";"P1131";"9600";"3410";"10";"18";"GAAP";"#";"#";"$ 0.00"
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The error message that comes while I preview the source data:
Error:
"The Preview sample contains embedded text qualifiers. The flat file parser doesnot support embedding text qualifiers in data. Parsing columns that contain data with text qualifiers will fail at runtime"
Is there any alternative to remove these text qualifiers from the file. Do we have any utility that can convert these files into text qualifier free CSV file?
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Mar 2, 2007
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Have I missed something in my set up of the OLE DB source / connection? Will a DSN source be faster?
Thanks in advance
ADG
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HI EVERYONE...!!
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I have been using a recordset destination in a data flow where I need to perform some complex manipulation on a dataset, including combining some information from a web service and updating records that already exist, vs. inserting them.
I have a script task that modifies the dataset as needed, and then saves it back to the variable it came from.
However, when it comes time to write the data to the database, I couldn't find an appropriate tool - there's no "recordset source" object in the data flow task, and use of a "for each" loop with a sql call to a stored proc takes 20 minutes for a few thousand rows.
The best way I could find around this was as follows:
Call the .NET ".GetXML" method on the dataset and put the resulting XML data into a string variable
Generate an XSD for that XML (it comes out like <NewDataSet><Table1>...)
Use an XML source in the data flow task.This works, and the same data insert that took 20 minutes via the loop / stored procs now takes under 10 seconds.
It seems horribly inefficient to have to do this - there should be a way to just dump my dataset back into a table natively without all that extra stuff.
Anyone done anything simillar?
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HI EVERYONE...!!
I WANT TO CREATE A DATA FLOW SOURCE ON ODBC TO SQL BUT A CAN'T FIND THE ODBC DATA FLOW SOURCE. SOMEBODY CAN SAY ME HOW DO THIS????
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hi all,
i have a package in ssis that needs to deliver data from outside servers with odbc connection. i have desined the package with dataflow object that includes inside a datareader source. the data reader source connect via ado.net odbc connection to the ouside servers and makes a query like: select * from x where y=? and then i pass the data to my sql server. my question is like the following:
how do i config the datasource reader or the dataflow so it will recognize an input value to my above query? i.e for example:
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please help,
tomer
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Inside a data flow task, i have a oledb source and destination. In my situation, I need to pull data from a table in the source, but also hard code some columns myself, which means my source is a blend of data from table, hard coded data, which will then have to be mapped to columns in oledb destination. Does anyone which option to choose in the oledb source dropdown for the data access mode. Keep in mind, i do need to run a a select query, as well as get data from a table. Is it possible to use multiple oledb sources and connect to one destination, because that is really what intend to do here. I am not sure how it will work, or even if its possible. Basically my source access mode needs to be a blend of sql command and table columns, how would that be implemented? Any help or advice is appreciated.
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Hi all...
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When I'm on the 'Data Flow' tab I can't find a Data Flow Item to use as a MS Access connection.
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Dear all,
I am trying to executed a packege so that it loads data from from the excel file to the SQL Server Server database.
When I execute it, it prompts the following error message and 1 warning
The excel file has three colums, Week, Item and Value
Error 4 Validation error. Data Flow Task: OLE DB Source [94]: SSIS Error Code DTS_E_OLEDBERROR. An OLE DB error has occurred. Error code: 0x80040E14. An OLE DB record is available. Source: "Microsoft OLE DB Provider for Oracle" Hresult: 0x80040E37 Description: "ORA-00942: table or view does not exist ". Test - GET NW PERF 1.dtsx 0 0
Warning
Warning 1 Validation warning. Data Flow Task: OLE DB Destination [36]: The external metadata column collection is out of synchronization with the data source columns. The column "DAY" needs to be added to the external metadata column collection. The column "TCH_AVAIL" needs to be added to the external metadata column collection. The column "PDROP" needs to be added to the external metadata column collection. The column "P_HR" needs to be added to the external metadata column collection. The column "SFAIL" needs to be added to the external metadata column collection. The "external metadata column "VALUE" (90)" needs to be removed from the external metadata column collection. The "external metadata column "ITEM" (89)" needs to be removed from the external metadata column collection. Not in use - GET NW STATS.dtsx 0 0
Could someone give me a hand here.
Regards,
Ronald
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I am able to use a custom script task to receive a MSMQ package and save the package contents to a flat file.
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XML Source
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The query plan is already cached in SQL.
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