Insert Rows Into A Flat File
Sep 22, 2006
Hi!
I have a problem that I canīt understand.
I have rows in a table in a SQL Server 2005 that I want to send to a Flat file. When I am executing the task for the first time it is OK and works perfectly. But the problem is when I am trying to do it again. I seems like the path to the file and the filename dissappears after the first time and the execution failes with an error message that tells me that the file is invalid and donīt exists.
I donīt now why this is happening and itīs such an easy thing to do and I canīt make it work.
So please help me!
Regards,
Johanna
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Oct 24, 2007
Hi all,
In a foreachloop, I am inserting records into a flat file which is working fine. But the thing is that as the file grows, it takes longer for it to locate the EOF(End of File) of the flat file so as to insert the records.
I have around 70-100 lines written to the file at each loop and there are more than 20k records to be looped. wihich means that at the end I should be having 1400k - 20000k line in the text file.
One solution would be to insert the records at the start of the file itself so that it does not has to lookup the EOF each time before writting.
Another would be to generate separate files and then merge it.
Any idea how can this can be done?
Beside this I have to zip the file and then SFTP to a given address.
Any suggestion or help would be welcome.
Rdgs
David
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Mar 29, 2006
How do I insert data from a flat file or .csv file into an existing SQL database???
Here what I've come up with thus far and I but it doesn't work. Can someone please help? Let me know if there is a better way to do this... Idealy I'd like to write straight to the sql database and skip the datset all together...
strSvr = "vkrerftg"
StrDb = "Test_DB"
'connection String
strCon = "Server=" & strSvr & ";database=" & StrDb & "; integrated security=SSPI;"
Dim dbconn As New SqlConnection(strCon)
Dim da As New SqlDataAdapter()
Dim insertComm As New SqlCommand("INSERT INTO [Test_DB_RMS].[dbo].[AIR_Ouput] ([Event], [Year], [Contract Loss],[Company Loss], " & _
"[IndInsured Loss Prop],[IndInsured Loss WC],[Event Info]) " & _
"VALUES (@Event, @Year, @ConLoss, @CompLoss, @IndLossProp, @IndLossWC, @eventsInfo)", dbconn)
insertComm.Parameters.Add("@Event", SqlDbType.Int, 4, "Event")
insertComm.Parameters.Add("@Year", SqlDbType.Float, 4, "Year")
insertComm.Parameters.Add("@ConLoss", SqlDbType.Float, 4, "Contract Loss")
insertComm.Parameters.Add("@CompLoss", SqlDbType.Float, 4, "Company Loss")
insertComm.Parameters.Add("@IndLossProp", SqlDbType.Float, 4, "IndInsured Loss Prop")
insertComm.Parameters.Add("@IndLossWC", SqlDbType.Float, 4, "IndInsured Loss WC")
insertComm.Parameters.Add("@eventsInfo", SqlDbType.NVarChar, 255, "Event Info")
da.InsertCommand = insertComm
Dim upComm As New SqlCommand("UPDATE [Test_DB_RMS].[dbo].[AIR_Ouput] " & _
"SET [Event] = @Event " & _
",[Year] = @Year " & _
",[Contract Loss] = @ConLoss " & _
",[Company Loss] = @CompLoss " & _
",[IndInsured Loss Prop] = @IndLossProp " & _
",[IndInsured Loss WC] = @IndLossWC " & _
",[Event Info] = @EventInfo", dbconn)
upComm.Parameters.Add("@Event", SqlDbType.Int, 4, "Event")
upComm.Parameters.Add("@Year", SqlDbType.Float, 4, "Year")
upComm.Parameters.Add("@ConLoss", SqlDbType.Float, 4, "Contract Loss")
upComm.Parameters.Add("@CompLoss", SqlDbType.Float, 4, "Company Loss")
upComm.Parameters.Add("@IndLossProp", SqlDbType.Float, 4, "IndInsured Loss Prop")
upComm.Parameters.Add("@IndLossWC", SqlDbType.Float, 4, "IndInsured Loss WC")
upComm.Parameters.Add("@EventsInfo", SqlDbType.NVarChar, 255, "Event Info")
da.UpdateCommand = upComm
da.Update(dsAIR, "TextDB")
************* ANY HELP WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED************
THANKS
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Mar 29, 2006
How do I insert data from a flat file or .csv file into an existing SQL database???
Here what I've come up with thus far and I but it doesn't work. Can someone please help? Let me know if there is a better wway to do this... Idealy I'd like to write straight to the sql database and skip the datset all together...
strSvr = "vkrerftg"
StrDb = "Test_DB"
'connection String
strCon = "Server=" & strSvr & ";database=" & StrDb & "; integrated security=SSPI;"
Dim dbconn As New SqlConnection(strCon)
Dim da As New SqlDataAdapter()
Dim insertComm As New SqlCommand("INSERT INTO [Test_DB_RMS].[dbo].[AIR_Ouput] ([Event], [Year], [Contract Loss],[Company Loss], " & _
"[IndInsured Loss Prop],[IndInsured Loss WC],[Event Info]) " & _
"VALUES (@Event, @Year, @ConLoss, @CompLoss, @IndLossProp, @IndLossWC, @eventsInfo)", dbconn)
insertComm.Parameters.Add("@Event", SqlDbType.Int, 4, "Event")
insertComm.Parameters.Add("@Year", SqlDbType.Float, 4, "Year")
insertComm.Parameters.Add("@ConLoss", SqlDbType.Float, 4, "Contract Loss")
insertComm.Parameters.Add("@CompLoss", SqlDbType.Float, 4, "Company Loss")
insertComm.Parameters.Add("@IndLossProp", SqlDbType.Float, 4, "IndInsured Loss Prop")
insertComm.Parameters.Add("@IndLossWC", SqlDbType.Float, 4, "IndInsured Loss WC")
insertComm.Parameters.Add("@eventsInfo", SqlDbType.NVarChar, 255, "Event Info")
da.InsertCommand = insertComm
Dim upComm As New SqlCommand("UPDATE [Test_DB_RMS].[dbo].[AIR_Ouput] " & _
"SET [Event] = @Event " & _
",[Year] = @Year " & _
",[Contract Loss] = @ConLoss " & _
",[Company Loss] = @CompLoss " & _
",[IndInsured Loss Prop] = @IndLossProp " & _
",[IndInsured Loss WC] = @IndLossWC " & _
",[Event Info] = @EventInfo", dbconn)
upComm.Parameters.Add("@Event", SqlDbType.Int, 4, "Event")
upComm.Parameters.Add("@Year", SqlDbType.Float, 4, "Year")
upComm.Parameters.Add("@ConLoss", SqlDbType.Float, 4, "Contract Loss")
upComm.Parameters.Add("@CompLoss", SqlDbType.Float, 4, "Company Loss")
upComm.Parameters.Add("@IndLossProp", SqlDbType.Float, 4, "IndInsured Loss Prop")
upComm.Parameters.Add("@IndLossWC", SqlDbType.Float, 4, "IndInsured Loss WC")
upComm.Parameters.Add("@EventsInfo", SqlDbType.NVarChar, 255, "Event Info")
da.UpdateCommand = upComm
da.Update(dsAIR, "TextDB")
************* ANY HELP WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED************
THANKS
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I have a text file that come from our client that is Column deliminated by ~ and row deliminated by {CR}{LF}.
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I am new to SSIS and I'm wondering if there is a way to detect and correct the bad rows?
example file formet:
ORDERID~DATE~Comment~Address
1~2/3/2007~Some Comment~1234 oak st
2~2/3/2007~Some messed
up comment~345 oak st.
3~2/3/2007~Another comment~3214 asdf blvd.
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Sep 6, 2007
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The rows within flat file has like "bill number" which is duplicated on the same "invoice date".
If duplicate rows found then move the duplicate rows into another Flat File.
If not found then move the rows into Sql Server Table.
Pls provide the solution. Thank you
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Jun 12, 2007
Hi,
I noticed something strange today. I created a pkg that reads a flat file and writes the rows to a table.
In checking the data in the file against what's in the table, I noticed that the rows were inserted in a different order than they are in the file.
All the rows appear to be in the table correctly, but they're just not in the same order as in the file. I've never seen this before. But I checked very carefully, and this is indeed the case.
Is this normal??
Thanks
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Jun 30, 2006
Hello,
Is there a way (perhaps a property) to capture the number of rows selected from a Flat File Data Flow Source without having to develop a script to loop through the rows and count them?
Thanks a lot,
Grace
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Nov 27, 2007
Hi,
In a dataflow there is a Flat File Source that loads a file with 500000 rows but when I execute the package it only loads 249999, I have verified the file and every looks fine, it is a csv and ms-excel recognized it perfectly.
I'm wondering if there is any technical limitation regarding to the amount of rows per file?
and what else can I verify for discover the problem?
thanks
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Jun 4, 2007
hi
I have a flat file as below
Date 20070606
Empid Salary X1 x2 x3 x4 x5
100 10000 .............................
where 10000 is the salary got on date 20070606 by empid 100
.x1,x2,x3...are the remaining columns in the file.I need to extract the date and also continue reading the remaining data.How can i do this???
Any help?
thanks
ami
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Mar 23, 2007
Hi! I'm a newbie to SSIS and I'm trying to insert a flat file into a table.
The flat file contains some bad data so I want to insert the data into a text column.
I'm getting the following error below... It seems like SSIS cannot find the row delimiter, but I just want to load the file into a text column as a single row. I am able to insert the data to a text column in SQL 2000 DTS. Is there a way to do this in SQL 2005?
Please help... and Thanks in advance!!
[DTS.Pipeline] Error: The PrimeOutput method on component "Flat File Source" (1) returned error code 0xC0202092.
The component returned a failure code when the pipeline engine called PrimeOutput().
The meaning of the failure code is defined by the component, but the error is fatal and the pipeline stopped executing.
[Flat File Source [1]] Error: An error occurred while processing file \sss.sss on data row 1.
[DTS.Pipeline] Error: The PrimeOutput method on component "Flat File Source" (1) returned error code 0xC0202092.
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Would there be any buffering issue I need to cater for inside the package? Thanks!
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Hello,
Using ssis, how can I limit the number of rows I wish to import from a flat file?
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I got a flat file like:Â
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ALBERTA #15U.S.$ 0.2930 1 Can$ 0.0900
BRITISH COLUMBIA #14U.S.$ 0.6891 2 Can$ 0.2117
MANITOBA #18U.S.$ 0.4557 3 Can$ 0.1400
If there a way I can use SSIS to transfer this file to something like:
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Jun 11, 2007
Sorry if this question had already been answered previously. I was unable search the forum on this topic. How will I merge these and then configure the first row as Column names (As this helps to map to the destination column names automatically)
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Oct 25, 2007
Hi,
I have a data task with the following requirements:
1) Run query against database to retrieve rows
2) Add header and footer row to the result set. The footer row must contain a count of the records.
3) Write the rows to a fixed width file if there were any data rows
I have got to the point that I can create the file (using a set of tasks that includes derived columns, sorts, aggregation and merges). However the file is created regardless of whether there were data rows returned.
I can't check the row count before proceeding as this isn't set until the data task ends. And if I try to split them into separate data tasks (so that I can access this variable and perform conditional execution) it becomes harder to access the original rows.
Do you have any recommendations on the best way to achieve this?
It all seems to be very complex and I'm starting to feel that it would be easier to do this outside of SSIS...
Please help me to keep the faith!
For those interested this is a slightly simplified version of what I have so far (all within a single data task):
1.Run dummy sql to create header row 2.Run main SQL to retrieve rows
| |
| 3.Multicast
| | |
| | 4.Create footer row by doing sum() in aggregate task
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| 5.Merge body and footer
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6. Merge header with body and footer
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7. Create fixed width file
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Just attempting to import a simple tab delimited text file into my SQL Server 2005 database using the SQL Server Import and Export wizard. Column names are specified within the first line of the file. The Header Rows to Skip field value is listed as 0, but the wizard indicates that "The field, Header rows to skip, does not contain a valid numeric value".
Why isn't zero (0) a valid numeric value? I don't want to skip any rows. PLUS, I get the same error when trying to export to a text file although the header rows to skip field does not exist. I can increase the number to 1 or more, but the wizard will skip part of my data .. unacceptable.
What am I missing here? I installed SP1 of SQL server 2005, but that did not help.
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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!
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Hi,
I have a text file with a single column that i need to bulk insert into a table with 2 colums - an ID (with identity turned on) and col2
my text file looks like:
row1
row2
row3
...
row10
so my bulk insert i have like this:
BULK INSERT test FROM 'd: estBig.txt'
WITH (
DATAFILETYPE = 'char',
FIELDTERMINATOR = ',',
ROWTERMINATOR = '
'
)
but i get the error:
Server: Msg 4866, Level 17, State 66, Line 1
Bulk Insert fails. Column is too long in the data file for row 1, column 1. Make sure the field terminator and row terminator are specified correctly.
However, as you can see from the text file, there is only one column, so i dont have any field terminators.
Any ideas how to make this work?
Thanks.
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Aug 7, 2007
Hi Guys,
I hope this is easy stuff for you..
First of all i searched the forum but didnt exactly find what iam searching for:
I have a File folder which contains 1..n Files of the same type.
The files contain a DateValue at the beginning of each row. I now want to read the first Record of the file - extract the datevalue and search in my Importtable if there are any records with that Date. If there are allready Records with this date i know i allready imported that file and skip it in my For each File Container. If no records where found I want to copy them from the file to the table.
So I have a flatfile source and thoght I just make an oledb command task afterwards which looks like "Select count(*) from Import where Processdate = ?. and then a conditional split if the count == 0 or not... but i have problems getting the Count value out auf the OLD DB Command Task because everytime I try to add an outputcolumn i get the message: "An Output cannot be added to the output collection" and since there is no possibility to map an expression to the result...
I tried to workaround the problem using a lookup task.. but that seems to be the wrong way.
thanks for your help
bye
AS
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Sep 11, 2007
I have to insert the Values from the Flat Files , My table structures have Primary keys , how do i insert only the distinct values into the table without the ERROR VIOLATION OF Primary Key already exists a record.
Dropping and Adding Relationships after insert is a way but doesnt serve the whole purpose is there a way we can eliminate duplicate records based on their Primary key before inserting them into the Database.
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Oct 22, 2007
HI,
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Does anyone have any experience dealing with file of this sort?
Any insight would be appreciated.
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Dec 21, 2006
Hi all
I have a flat file.I am trying to set the value for the property "HeaderRowsToSkip" during runtime.I have set an expression for this in my "flat file connection manager". But this is not working.The connection manager is not able to take the value during runtime.
My expression is as follows:
DataRowsToSkip : @[user:: Var]
where "Var" is my variable which gets the value from the rowcount component and trying to set it back to the "HeaderRowsToskip" property.
I ve even tried setting the value to the "HeaderRowsToSkip" property in the expression builder.
Its not working....
Can anyone help me out in solving this????
Thanks in advance
Regards
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Mar 12, 2015
I am running a set of SQL statements on a SQL server, to insert flat file data into a SQL table. The flat file is already FTP'ed to the SQL server. I seem to be getting an error, which is possibly pointing to a permissions issue
The statements:
BULK INSERT [Jedox_prod].[dbo].[B_BP_Customer]
FROM 'c:jedox_dailyjdcom4401.txt'
WITH
(
FIRSTROW = 2,
MAXERRORS = 0,
FIELDTERMINATOR = '|',
ROWTERMINATOR = '
'
)
GO
The error is :
Msg 4861, Level 16, State 1, Line 1
Cannot bulk load because the file "c:jedox_dailyjdcom4401.txt" could not be opened. Operating system error code 3(failed to retrieve text for this error. Reason: 1815)
If it is permissions issue, how do I overcome this?
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Aug 24, 2007
Hi,
I am testing SSIS and have created a Flat File Destination. I defined the Flat File Connection as New for the first time and it worked fine. Now, I would like to go back and modify the Flat File Connection in the Flat File Destination Editor, but it allows only to create a New connection rather allowing me to edit the existing one. For testing, I can go back and create a new connection, but if my connection had 50-100 columns then it would be an issue to re-create it from scratch.
Did someone else faced this issue?
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Nov 4, 2007
Hi everyone,
I am new to SSIS and I thought maybe someone would give me tips for solving the problem I am facing.
Overview:
I want to insert data contained in a flat file into several DB tables, which have N-M relations.
For illustration, I would explain the problem on a very simple DB:
1. The database contains the following 3 tables:
EMPLOYEE (EMP_ID, EMP_NAME)
PROJECT (PROJ_ID, PROJ_NAME)
EMP_PROJ (EMP_ID, PROJ_ID) , where EMP_ID and PROJ_ID are foreign keys referencing records in the EMPLOYEE and PROJECT tables respectively.
2. Each entry in the falt file contains the following data:
EMP_ID, EMP_NAME, PROJ_ID, PROJ_NAME
3. In SSIS, I have created a Data Flow Task containing:
- a path from a Falt File Source to an SQL Server Destination (Table: Employee)
- a path from a Falt File Source to an SQL Server Destination (Table: Project)
- a path from a Falt File Source to an SQL Server Destination (Table: Emp_proj)
Note: I used SQL Server Destination, because I need to import a huge amount of data and I read that this component performs better than the OLE DB Destination!
Questions:
1. I would like to eliminate EMP_ID and PROJ_ID from the Flat File Source. Instead, I would like these fields to be generated automatically upon insertion.
a. How can I do this and propagate the generated key among the different paths, which I have explained previously?
b. Can I first generate the two keys somehow then the parallel insertions into the different tables should start using the generated keys?
2. Is my solution correct in the first place? Or is there another better way for inserting data which belong to N-N relations?
Thanks in adavance,
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Hi,
I have a situation where a tab limited text file is used to populate a sql server table.
The tab limited text file comes from a third party vendor. There are fixed number of columns we need to export to the sql server table. However the third party may add colums in the text file. Whenenver the text file has an added column (which we dont need to import) the build fails since the flat file connection manager does not create the metadata for it again. The problem goes away where I press the button "Reset Columns" since it builds the metadata then. Since we need to build the tables everyday we cannot automate it using SSIS because the metadata does not change automatically. Is there a way out in SSIS?
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Hello Guys,
I am working in one company and currently I am assigned to new project for Data Migration from company X to our company Y using SSIS. I am totally new and i just completed 5 tutorial which was gien on MSDN website.
Basically client is going to send us first flat file with 1 million records with Header, Detail and Trailer records.
I want to create a Package in such a way that it dumps all this first load into 7 to 8 different tables at a time.
we also have to include functionlity for validation and error check.
On successfull load error file should only return Header and Trailer but no detail records.
If there are any errors then error file should contain Header, Detail records which were unable to load plus trailer which we have to sent back to client.
When 2nd file comes that time we have to check whether this is new records or change (update) one depending on Flag which tells it.
This is basically high level idea of my Package what i need to create. If u guys have any question then let me know.
I know you guys are very experienced one. Anyone of you please give me some detail idea on it I would really appricate it.
I have very limited time line for it.
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Aug 2, 2007
Hi,
I'm new to SQL Server 2005 SSIS. I'm trying to do something very simple, but I cannot figure it out, PLEASE HELP!
I have a flat file, which I read and then insert the data in a database table, that works fine. The problem is that I don't want to insert duplicate records. For example; if I run the package again, it will appent to the table. What I need to do is that if the package runs again, check if the record already exist, based one two columns, date and hour, and do not insert the record.
Thank you,
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May 14, 2007
I can't use DTS nor DTSwizard as I need to put it in a .sql and run it through a command line via .bat file (it's more for the users).
Each row ends with an EOL character, the fields are all fixed width, but I have a little problem here, some rows are empty but just with a EOL character.
How shall I go about it?
many thanks! :D
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Can we bulk insert only the desired column from a flat file to a table?
I am using SSIS to bulk insert from a file with more than 200 columns. I am trying to find a way I can bulk insert them to multiples table through SSIS.
The one way I can think is pre map the columns from the file to the destination tables. Build numerous Bulk Insert tasks to achieve that. But not sure if SSIS will let me do that.
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