I've seen a number of posts similar to this but i still cannot figure out what i need to do to get it working. So here goes with a couple of newbie questions.
Question 1:
Once created how do i go about executing a SSIS package. I want to be able to call it from a C# application from which i pass in a couple of parameters?
Question 2:
How do i go about setting the file path of my Excel source to a dynamic value passed at runtime. I want to be able to loop through a number of Excel files and do some processing on them. I've set up a variable (which i think i need to do) after that i get stuck however. Some other posts suggest configuration packages but i cannot get my head around how they work?
Any help on this matter would be gratefully recieved.
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
I have the Excel Connection Manager and Source to read the contents from an Excel file. For some reason couple of numeric fields from the Excel worksheet are brought over as nulls even though they have a value of 300 and 150. I am not sure why this is happening. I looked into the format of the fields and they are set to General in Excel, I tried setting them to numeric and that did not help.
All the other content from the excel file is coming thru except for the 2 numeric fields.
I tried to bring the contents from the excel source to a text file in csv format and for some reason the 2 numeric fields came out as blank.
Any inputs on getting this addressed will be much appreciated.
Dear Friends, I currently have my excel source dynamic for the connectionstring. Using a global variable with the filename and using the expressions of this control to dynamically have the connecttionstring. My problem is that i need tto read always the first workseet and the name changes frequently and generates an erro in SSIS. how can I set the excel source to goes only for the first sheet independently of the worksheet name?! Regards!!
Hi all, I am able to set dynamic source for the text file(flat file) but i want to set the connection string (file name) to excel source dynamicaly. I have tryied lots of time by taking a variable in foreachloop container . Variable is itself able to pick the file name dynamicaly but whern i am tying to set connectionstring to excel source it gives error.
Steps that i have done: -
1) Drag foreachloop container 2) set directory,FileNameRetrieval,FileSpec 3) Made VariableMapping
4) Now drag a dataflow task in the foreachloop container 5) select excel source 6) When i am selecting varaible as connectin string from properties of excel connectin manager, i am getting this error : -
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Error at Package3 [Connection manager "Excel Connection Manager 2"]: An OLE DB error has occurred. Error code: 0x80040E4D.
Error at Data Flow Task [Excel Source [1]]: The AcquireConnection method call to the connection manager "Excel Connection Manager 2" failed with error code 0xC0202009.
I have a package with Excel Destination with dynamic connection. I did ExcelFilePath = [@user::VarSourceFolder]+[@user::VarSourceFileName] then i changed the Delayvalidation = True.
When i try to run the package in BIDS it gives the error. ERROR: [Excel Source [30501]] Error: An OLE DB error has occurred. Error code: 0x80040E37. [Excel Source [30501]] Error: Opening a rowset for "DailySheet" failed. Check that the object exists in the database.
It saying there is no sheet in the name of "DailySheet" but when i removed the expression in connection manager property it is working fine.
Please let me know what is the problem OR how to configure the dynamic connection in ExcelSource.
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.
I have a source files folder where the files generated everyday. My goal is pick the latest file and copy this single file to another folder. I used the Foreach loop container and got the latest file and stored the file name to a varible i.e. LatestFile Then i want to use the File System Task to copy this to the destination. On the beginning, I could not setup the Latestfile since I don't its name then, so when I setup the Source Connection property of the File system task, it is not allowed to leave the SourceVarible as blank!
its my flow in one of my packates (ETL job) Excel file contains monthly revenue details, i wanna import the excel data to my database staging table, so i've created the package. its working fine...
Problem if we change the new data for the next month and running the package its not running; the same file, same format, only we delete the contents, of the file except first row of the excel sheet, and pasting the new data; new data is coming from Oracle DataBase in the form of excel sheet ( manually they will copy the data and sending to us)
i open that package in design mode and while double clicking the excel file source it says <column name>'s Meta Data needs to be synchronized Do you want to Fix this issue automatically with the available external column's meta data
Clearly noted that its a data type issue; i have changed the corresponding data types as it is in the previous Excel sheet which is equivalant to the Table its copying to.
now the package is running with validation warnings, External Column "Invoice Amount" needs to be updated...etc. some 2 or three warning messages i can able to see in the package Execution wizard,
ok, i'm ready to accept these warnings, and i want my package running from my server;( packages had been deployed in to the Centeralized server; every time if we want to run the package, we have the asp.net webpage, that is executing the package in an On_click event)
The package is not running from the server, its due to the meta data change in the Excel file( i guess)
please suggest me some guide lines to resolve this meta data issue, i want my excel sheet meta data should not change when we have new updates in it;
otherwise suggest me some solutions that i can validate the excel sheet before running the package and testing whether the data is in correct format or not? its a kind of Data Profiling activity;
i know its some what crazy, but i need to maintain the system with permanent solution, instead of facing this meta data mismatch issue!!!
some what lenthy explanation--> its needed for my dear powerful microsoft responders. i think i 've explained my problem clearly, if i don't let me know your queries, i'll try my level best.
I have CSV file as source for SSIS package every time the filename will be changing like trd_1990M1_1990M12.csv,trd_1991M1_1991M12.csv , trd_1992M1_1992M12.csv etc.,
so it will vary as per user selection . i need to run the same SSIS package to execute the different file name with the same structure.
Please let me know the solution for that how to pass the file name dynamically to SSIS package.
I have a problem while creating a dynamic source connection.
i have four files while which comes with different extension , apparently the name of the files are same for example.
9500.txt, the other one is 9500. rtf, 9500.dat, 9500.map, They are all text file but with different formats. I have problem selecting a dynamic source connection for each of this files.
when i create variable for input file name the file connection gets confused and throws me error with input file.
I am having a Data flow task in For each loop which will gets 100 sourcetable names and 100 target table names...
am having a simpleData flow task which trasferes from OLEDBSource to OLEDBDestination. I am repeating the Dataflow task which transfers from sourcetablename extracted from for loop to a destination table var.
The problem am gettting is for the first table it is able to transfer correcly because I did mapping for those tables at design time...but for the next coming sourcetable-desttable (which r having different no of cols,datatypes) its giving Validation failed...and...needs to refresh metadata....
is there any way to refresh the metadata of Data flow task (I set the property of OLEDBSource validate external meta to false then also same error is coming)
I'm trying to write a DTS package that reads data from an excel spreadsheet. I'm having a problem getting all the data from the spreadsheet, seems that OLE DB is "too" smart. There is one column that has either numeric values or text values in its row cells. When I browse the spreadsheet in DTS (transform properties, browse button) I only see the text values. OLE DB has placed nulls or blanks into the cells with the numeric values. If I edit the spreadsheet to change the column header to contain a number, then the browse window shows only the numeric values and blanks out the text values. Any suggestion on how to get OLE DB/DTS to treat the numeric values as text? In the spreadsheet, I've tried changing the cell formats to text and to general. This had no effect.
I have a SSIS Package that exports data from Sql Server to an Excel file. I need help figuring out how to have the file name be "Report_02132007.xls". Basically I want to append the date to the file name. Any ideas?
Hi everyone! I am trying to import data into my sqlserver 2005 database from an Excel 2000 file. The database is empty. I am using the worksheets from the file to create the tables and copy the rows. I am getting follwing errors: - Pre-execute (Error)
Messages Error 0xc0202009: {674E15E4-102E-4935-90A2-8B1FFFEFB11D}: An OLE DB error has occurred. Error code: 0x80004005.An OLE DB record is available. Source: "Microsoft JET Database Engine" Hresult: 0x80004005 Description: "Unspecified error".(SQL Server Import and Export Wizard) Error 0xc020801c: Data Flow Task: The AcquireConnection method call to the connection manager "SourceConnectionExcel" failed with error code 0xC0202009.(SQL Server Import and Export Wizard) Error 0xc004701a: Data Flow Task: component "Source 64 - vw_TempOrderDetails" (5280) failed the pre-execute phase and returned error code 0xC020801C.(SQL Server Import and Export Wizard)
My task is to read the filename from a database table and transfer the flat file data in to a table. In SSIS,I am able to fetch the file name using a Data Reader Source; but how to pass this fileName parameter to Flat File Source ?
In DTS I have used ActiveX script to pass filename variable as flatfilecon.Source. Any help ?
Hello, I have a situation in which I need to use a foreach iterator that will perform a transformation on each excel file in a directory. The file names will change, but the structure will stay the same.
I was able to get this working by assigning the file path for each iteration to a variable, and then using that variable to set the excelfilepath in the Excel connection manager. However, for this to work I have to assign the variable to a default file.
Because of this, when I try to deploy the package I need to also add a configuration property for the variable, otherwise the first run will fail. The dummy file doesn't even really need to exist - I just have to put in a valid path, and then use any name that has an .xls extension. After that it runs fine regardless of what is in the directory.
This seems odd that I would need to do this - am I missing something? Apart from creating the Excel Connection Manager programatically (which I'm guessing might solve this), is there a way to avoid having to specify this dummy file?
I have a particular issue that has been causing me some problems for a while. I have an SSIS package that imports an excel file into my database, and then performs various data manipulation that I won't go into. The problem I am having is at the import end. The excel source file I am working on is provided to me by my client. It is a fixed format and doesn't change, it contains a header row and there are 32 headings. The trouble I am having is that quite often, the last column is empty, i.e. it contains no data. The header is still there, but theres no data underneath. When I try to import this file using my SSIS package it fails, and complains about needing to remove the metadata for this final column from the External Columns list (VS_NEEDSNEWMETADATA). When I try to preview this file in the properties of the Excel Data Source, the last column does not exist. It's as if it's determining that as there is no data in that final column, that it's unnecessary and not part of the data set, even though it has a header.
Now I've done a bit of research, and found cases that a sort of like mine, I know that the excel file has the first 8 records sampled to determine the data format. This problem suggested to use the IMEX=1 extension in the connection string, which didn't help. I also discovered that when using flat files, if you have odd numbers of columns in your comma seperated list there can be problems. But neither of these issues seem to match the issue I'm facing.
Has ANYONE had a similar problem to me, and can anyone offer any kind of assistance regarding what I need to do to import an excel file that may or may not have data in the final column?
I'm getting a bit lost in SSIS. I've got an Excel source file that I'm trying to load into a table. I keep getting validation errors that warn about not being able to convert between unicode and non-unicode string data types.
I'm trying figure out where I have to change this and am frankly confused. It seems SSIS is selecting various columns as unicode/WSTR data types, but I want them to import as regular string types.
On the Data Flow tab in SSIS, I right-click on the source Data Flow component (the Excel file) and select Show Advanced Editor. Then on the last tab, Input and Output Properties, there's a tree view for the Excel output. There are "External Columns" and "Output Columns" containers in the tree view.
I tried setting some of these but they don't seem to "take". Do I need to change the data type for each column under both the External and Output columns?
That seems like a lot of work! And, as I say, I tried setting some, but I still got the same validation errors. So, then I go back to this spot (Advanced Editor -> Input and Output Properties tab) and my changes seem to have been lost.
Is it possible to import data from an Excel spreadsheet using OPENROWSET or OPENDATASOURCE without having to explicitly define the filepath of the source file? Currently, I have this piece of code within a sproc:
FROM OPENROWSET ('Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0','Excel 8.0; Database=C:WeeklySchedule.xls', 'SELECT * FROM [Master$C5:Q65536]') AS XL
LEFT JOIN [dbo].[PartMaster] ON (RIGHT([XL].[CODE], 7) = [PartMaster].[SKU])
WHERE [SKU] IS NOT NULL
AND [CODE] IS NOT NULL
AND [LAMPS] IS NOT NULL
AND [LAMPS] > 0
AND [LampTypeID] = @LampTypeID
I would like to remove the hardcoded reference 'Database=C:WeeklySchedule.xls' and replace it with a parameter for the filepath. Is this possible? This is in SQL Server 2000. Also, if there is a way to do this with DTS I'd be open to doing it that way too.
The columns in my excel source contain data of different types with the column name being a string and the data in those columns being integers. Is there any way to only extract numeric data , in short I want column names to be omitted. Also the data is distributed unevenly , beggining at various rows in each column.
I have a package from SQL Server 2008 R2, that loads data from .xlsx file to database table.There are total 15 columns and 14000 rows in the .xlsx. The package runs fine in BIDS. But the same package in SQL Agent fails with error "omponent "Excel Source" (1)" failed validation and returned validation status "VS_ISBROKEN".
When I tried to run the package by deleting the half of the records for first 7000 rows it ran successfully in agent. Then the second half (last 7000 rows) also succeed from agent job. So, there is no issue with the data/datatypes.The agent job is able to run with record upyo 11000 rows in .xlsx. When I am running for 12000 rows it is failing.Is there any problem with the number of records in .xlsx or size through SQL Agent?
I am running the package from a Proxy account in sql agent job.
ERROR: Error: Executed as user: PROXY_ID. Microsoft (R) SQL Server Execute Package Utility Version 10.50.6000.34 for 32-bit Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation 2010. All rights reserved. Started: 10:36:09 AM Error: 2015-08-10 10:36:10.87 Code: 0xC0202009 Source: XX Connection manager "Excel Connection Manager 1"
I have a report that comes with one main image and 15 other images that needs to be visible as needed at fixed position to the main image. Adding all the images is easy but managing the visibility is not working. What is the best way to do it? I am looking for sample but have come up empty.
I have a project where there are millions of records. For sake of example, let's use the White Pages.
One of the reports my client wants generated is a contact list. The contact list contains name, address, city, state, zip, phone, and several other key data elements.
Naturally, the client wants to be able to sort on each of those elements (easy to do.)
They also want to be able to filter the resultset the report shows, dynamically, at runtime (not so easy, I'm finding).
So, for example, one person may want to run the report and have the results only show people in PA. Another person may run a report and show all the people who are in Boston, MA. Yet another person may want everyone with the last name of "Smith".
Ultimately, the client wants to be able to filter results by virtually every day field displayed on the report (and some fields which are not!)
I've dug around the documentation for Reporting Services, and I readily admit I am a newbie. I cannot see any way to dynamically filter the resultset used to generate the report, other than using "Report Parameters".
The problem with Report Parameters, from what I can tell, is they also require me to have scalar expressions in a WHERE clause in the dataset. So, for example, if I wanted to let people filter on lastname, I would need a "WHERE LASTNAME LIKE @LastNameReportParameter" -- which works ok, as long as the parameter isn't null, of course, so I really have to do something like 'WHERE LastName LIKE ISNULL(@LastNameReportParameter, '%')"
With, literally, a dozen different fields on this report, I don't see where that is a real option -- I literally have to program a WHERE clause that has a dozen elements, some of which are numeric (not alpha), and thus LIKE doesn't work (AGE = 37) unless I get into completed gyrations (WHERE ISNULL(CAST(AGE AS VARCHAR), '') LIKE ISNULL(@AgeParameter, '%')
This seems to be incredibly complicated, and I cannot imagine there isn't an easier way to allow users to filter the resultsets on the reports generated by Report Server. Is there something I am missing?
Also, it has to be something I can address programatically, since the client wants a fairly 'seamless' front end (in C#) where users can simply click a radio button (to select a field to filter by) and type in a value (to filter on) prior to displaying the report in a reportviewer control.
Is there a way to dynamically program a filter expression and pass it to the report server, something akin to a filter expression on a BindingSource?
Any thoughts on this matter would be helpful, or pointers to online documentation, as I'm sort of out of ideas and cannot find anything in the docs. Thanks!
im working on a report which shows the data based on the users input. I have used a matrix because I have no control on how many fields the users want, so practically we have a dynamic column here. My problem is that they require me to able the user to hide the columns he/she wishes to during runtime. We have a previous report that enables the user to hide it during runtime but it has static column. Any idea on how I could do it?... Thank you so much...
I have a defined data source to an oracle server. I've alredy intalled oracle client, and setup my data source to save the user and password. I'm using .NET provider/OracleClient DataProvider Connection. When I click on "Test Connection" Button, SSIS reports SUCCESS. In Connection Manager TAB I created on connection called "OracleServer" from my oracle data source, described above.
In my package, I defined a DataReaderSource task, I specified "OracleServer" as a connection to it. I can preview data and view oracle's columns name..., so it make me think that everything is fine. But when It execute the task it FAIL and notify logon error and that password can't be blank.
