Version 2000.
How do I do something like the example
SELECT *
FROM OpenDataSource( 'Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0',
'Data Source="c:Financeaccount.xls";User ID=Admin;Password=;Extended
properties=Excel 5.0')...xactions
but use a .txt-file instead ?
I tried building it using Access (that usually works :-) ) and that gives a
connectionstring of:
Text;DSN=Link
Sammenkædningsspecifikation;FMT=Delimited;HDR=NO;I MEX=2;CharacterSet=850;DAT
ABASE=c: emp
Sourcetablename=link.txt
but I can't seem to "massage" it into working on the sql-server.
If I quick and dirty swap 'Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0' with 'Text' it gives
error:
Could not locate registry entry for OLE DB provider 'Text'.
I am able to successfully run a opendatasource query against a flat file from SQL Server. However the problem I am facing is that the resultset that is returned has a line as one column and one row ... is there any way i can get the opendatasource query to recognize tabs as column seperators ????
I want to use an input parameter as my filename, but I get a synataxerror message. Howerve, when I hard code the filename the proc compilessuccessfully.Thanks for any help. I'm using SQL Server 2005LTR_90,LTI_ELIG_pct,LTI_REC_pct,LOW_SALARY,HIGH_SALARY FROM OPENDATASOURCE("Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0","Data Source=C:inetpubwwwrootORC_Beta_Companies"' + @infilename +'"Extended Properties=Excel 8.0")...[summary_data$]Syntax message:Msg 102, Level 15, State 1, ProcedureimportExcelSpreadSheetIntoeNavigator_DataORC, Line 244Incorrect syntax near 'Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0'.
A simple DTS job I have is giving me fits. It is a straight copy column job from a pipe delimited text file into a table. The input file comes from a mapped drive linked to a shared filesystem on a sun solaris box.
The typical scenario. I run the DTS job to load 8000 rows from the input text file. Job succeeds.
A week later, the text file is updated with 9000 new rows. I run the DTS job with no changes and it loads 8000 rows from last week.
I reboot my Win XP pc and run DTS again. It now loads the 9000 new rows.
I tried mapping to a UNC to no avail.
Is it buffering the old file somewhere? I need help.
current environment: SQL Server 2000 with all latest SP's and patches Windows 2000 Server with all latest SP's and patches Drive 'G' mapped to a shared filesystem on sun solaris via Samba?
I'm wondering if there is any way to get SSIS to notice, in the Flat File Source, that a "Ragged right" text input file has a record that is too short to populate all the specified columns.
I am reading data from a file that is supposed to be fixed length records, but record 193,591 (out of approx. 500,000) is 20 bytes short of the fixed length (60 bytes). So I changed the input to "ragged right" and found that I can thereby continue to read the file, and load the data (after setting the "maximum errors" to a number greater than the initial "1"). (Without this change to "ragged right", every record after the bad one was "out of synch" with the column arrangement -- so they never made it into the database table destination.)
But the "failures" I am now getting are during the Data Conversion step, when I try to convert some columns to integers (from text, in the input stream). And by looking at the data with a "Redirect Row" setting for the Data Conversion step, I am able to see that the Flat File Source is reading "right past the end of the row."
Is there a way to get the Flat File Source to honor the CR-LF record terminator, and decide that some text columns should contain "nothing" (NULL or zero-length strings), rather than the bytes that contain the CR-LF and the initial text from the next record? Can this somehow be noticed as an error condition?
Im a programmer for an university webportal which uses php and msssql. When an user creates a new entry and his text is too long the entry is cut short and weird characters appear at the end of the entry.
For example: http://www.ttz.uni-magdeburg.de/scripts/test-messedb/php/index.php?option=show_presse&funktion=presse_show_mitteilung&id=333
How can I set the text limit to unlimited? Could it be something else? Is there a way of splitting an entry to several text fields automatically?
Thanks in advance for any help you can give me, Chris
I need to validate my text box value for instance when the user will enter the value if its 6 - 10 character its fine but if it's less than 6 I have to display a message invalid value.
Hi, I'm pretty new to ASP.NET and VB, but I'm working on a project which is essentially a staff directory. Using VS 2005, I've setup a basic grid view which connects to an object which connects via a data layer to a SQL database with Name, Surname, Email, Extension No and Department fields. I have it working so that if a user enters a name and surname for example, it will return all records with either the name matching or surname matching input parameters. What I want to do is to set up a SQL query which is: SELECT * FROM records WHERE (Name LIKE @Name) AND (Surname LIKE @Surname) AND (Email LIKE @Email) AND (Dept LIKE @Dept) so that if the user only enters the first name and surname for example as above, it ONLY returns the record which matches the first name and surname and not all records with either/or. One way I've thought of to do this is to convert the empty fields to "Nothing" so that it fullfils the search parameter for the empty fields. If someone can explain how to do this, or can suggest a better way, I'd be grateful. Cheers, Tom
I am quite new to SSIS (I was a DTS developer) and I have a specific requirement to validate all incoming data using regular expressions. For each row in my input file, all columns will need to be validated against an expression. We have approx 60 different input files (a combination of xml and text files) with column counts going from 10 up to 120.
Also each input file will contain a footer which will need to be validated for record counts.
I would like the solution to be as generic as possible as the requirements for each file are similar -the only difference being the column names and the expressions to check against. I would really rather not have a different data flow task for each input file type as there are so many.
Can anybody suggest the most efficient/reusable way to do this? What I was thinking of was this:
Split the input file into detail/footer create a temporary table based on the input file type with CHECKconstraints (regular expressions) for each column for each detail record load it into the temp table redirect any failures to another destination e.g. sql error table
hello, I am new to SQL sever and would like to connect to a particular database on the server using SQL. I have looked at various SQL sites with how to and none mention where I can locate the Input File name.
I am trying to import a file to a db table from a mainframe system. When I look at it on the PC has some special characters in it. They look like nulls and or tabs. When I try to define the fields in DTS, I only see up to the first special character. I tried to write a quick VB program to strip them out, but when VB is reading the file they get stripped out before I see them in the program. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I have a data flow task within a For Each Loop Container.
Its reading a Demilited Flat File and inserting into a DB table. The Flat File Source reads a specified folder and picks up all files with extension .txt
Question:
How can I record and save the file names the package picks up and loads it in ?
For eg: If I have under C:Test folder File1.txt File2.txt File3.txt
And the package picks up all the files above and loads them in, is it possible to read the file name its processing ? I have a need to read these file names ( in this example File1,File2,File3 ) and store them in a DB table.
'm trying to import a text file but the primary key column contains duplicatres (tunrs out to be the nature of the legacy data). How can I kick out all duplicates except, say, for a single primary key value?
Well, tha case here is simply that i have a (Suppliers.csv) as an Input. When taking that file, I do some validation on it's rows (Data type validations, Mandatory Fielda validations..etc). When some rows to do not meet the requirments i put in these validations , it is supposed to be directed to an (Errors) Table in my SQL DB.
I want to include the order of the invalid row in the input File (The row which did not pass from the pre-mentioned validations) within the (Errors) Table when i direct the invalid rows to it.
I am trying to transfer 200 txt files into SQL server by using query analyzer. The command is 'Bulk insert [tableName] from 'pathfilename.txt' However, I need to read and modifiy the txt file. I am new to SQL server but I believe there must be some one who is a wizard can do what I want easily.
Thank you for the help in advance!
Here is the raw data layout, which is comma delimited. BDate 1/1/1990 BDate 1/1/1990 BDate 1/1/1990 BDate 1/1/1990 Edate 1/1/2005 Edate 1/1/2005 Edate 1/1/2005 Edate 1/1/2005 Fq D Fq D Fq D Fq D Date R P M E D Date R P M E D Date R P M E D Date R P M E D 1/1/90 1 2 3 4 5 1/1/90 2 3 4 5 6 1/1/90 3 4 5 6 7 1/1/90 4 5 6 7 8 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 3 4 5 3 4 5 6 7 6 7 8 9 1 1/1/05 ...... 1/1/05 .... 1/1/05 ..... 1/1/05 .....
This is the desired output after load into the table, which is tacking each repeating block on top of each other. Date R P M E D 1/1/90 1 2 3 4 5 2 3 4 5 6 1/1/05 ...... 1/1/90 2 3 4 5 6 2 3 4 5 6 1/1/05 ...... 1/1/90 3 4 5 6 7 3 4 5 6 7 1/1/05 ...... 1/1/90 4 5 6 7 8 6 7 8 9 1 1/1/05 ......
I am using the flat file connection manager. I read in a set of flat files and copy them into a staging database table. I want to ignore anything in the text file past column 266. I can't get this to work correctly. I can't define the last column to end at 266 and ignore the rest. I tried adding an extra column but that did not work either.
Hi, I want to create a text file and write to text it by calling its assembly from Stored Procedure. Full Detail is given below
I write a code in class to create a text file and write text in it. 1) I creat a class in Visual Basic.Net 2005, whose code is given below: Imports System Imports System.IO Imports Microsoft.VisualBasic Imports System.Diagnostics Public Class WLog Public Shared Sub LogToTextFile(ByVal LogName As String, ByVal newMessage As String) Dim w As StreamWriter = File.AppendText(LogName) LogIt(newMessage, w) w.Close() End Sub Public Shared Sub LogIt(ByVal logMessage As String, ByVal wr As StreamWriter) wr.Write(ControlChars.CrLf & "Log Entry:") wr.WriteLine("(0) {1}", DateTime.Now.ToLongTimeString(), DateTime.Now.ToLongDateString()) wr.WriteLine(" :") wr.WriteLine(" :{0}", logMessage) wr.WriteLine("---------------------------") wr.Flush() End Sub Public Shared Sub LotToEventLog(ByVal errorMessage As String) Dim log As System.Diagnostics.EventLog = New System.Diagnostics.EventLog log.Source = "My Application" log.WriteEntry(errorMessage) End Sub End Class
2) Make & register its assembly, in SQL Server 2005. 3)Create Stored Procedure as given below:
CREATE PROCEDURE dbo.SP_LogTextFile ( @LogName nvarchar(255), @NewMessage nvarchar(255) ) AS EXTERNAL NAME [asmLog].[WriteLog.WLog].[LogToTextFile]
4) When i execute this stored procedure as Execute SP_LogTextFile 'C:Test.txt','Message1'
5) Then i got the following error Msg 6522, Level 16, State 1, Procedure SP_LogTextFile, Line 0 A .NET Framework error occurred during execution of user defined routine or aggregate 'SP_LogTextFile': System.UnauthorizedAccessException: Access to the path 'C:Test.txt' is denied. System.UnauthorizedAccessException: at System.IO.__Error.WinIOError(Int32 errorCode, String maybeFullPath) at System.IO.FileStream.Init(String path, FileMode mode, FileAccess access, Int32 rights, Boolean useRights, FileShare share, Int32 bufferSize, FileOptions options, SECURITY_ATTRIBUTES secAttrs, String msgPath, Boolean bFromProxy) at System.IO.FileStream..ctor(String path, FileMode mode, FileAccess access, FileShare share, Int32 bufferSize, ileOptions options) at System.IO.StreamWriter.CreateFile(String path, Boolean append) at System.IO.StreamWriter..ctor(String path, Boolean append, Encoding encoding, Int32 bufferSize) at System.IO.StreamWriter..ctor(String path, Boolean append) at System.IO.File.AppendText(String path) at WriteLog.WLog.LogToTextFile(String LogName, String newMessage)
I am not sure if this has been asked before but I couldn't find any thread talking about this.
Let's say we have a parameter in the .sql input file called @Start_Date, how can we pass the value of a particular date, for example, "02-28-2007" to @Start_Date via SQLCMD? is it possible?
I'm trying to skip the need to write a simple windows application...if things can be achieved via dos command line, that will keep everything simple!
Each day I receive a file with a different name. For example, the name is filename_mmddyyyy.txt where filename_ stays constant and mmddyyyy is the date of the file. The file is always in the same format.
I want to build an SSIS where I pass it this file name. I can write a script to generate the correct file name. How do I build the SSIS so it can accept the input parameter and find the correct file to process?
One people created a word input file (15 pages, including check boxes, text boxes, drop down lists...). Is it possible to save data in word input file to SQL table?
If I can select an input flat file via a dialog box, or it is necessary to either hardcode the file name or change the filename everytime to a similar format; &How can a query be run and processed in SQL right after input of a flat file to continue?
I am trying to open and query a Microsoft Access "like" database from SQL Server 2000 using OpenDataSource. This will work for a little while, but if I am to update my ASP.NET code base I have to completely reboot the machine for these queries to work again. I also have two reboot the machine periodically because this functionality decides to crap out. I am doing this from a stored procedure. My code looks like this:DECLARE @SelectCode varchar(5000)SET @SelectCode ='SELECT CONVERT(varchar, Value) AS UnitName FROMOPENDATASOURCE(''Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0'', ''Data Source = "' + @Path + @DataFile + '.fcd";User ID=Admin;Password=;'')...Properties WHERE Property LIKE ''UnitName'''EXEC(@SelectCode)Now, when I am developing on my local machine that uses Windows Authentication, I have absolutely no problems, unless the source file has a schema error.Any ideas?
Hi all, In a select sql statement, I have to query 2 databases from 2 different servers. The only way I found to do this, is to call OPENDATASOURCE like this :<asp:SqlDataSource ID="SqlDataSource1" runat="server" ConnectionString="<%$ ConnectionStrings:bdConnectionString1 %>" SelectCommand="SELECT * FROM [Table1] t1 left join OPENDATASOURCE('SQLOLEDB','Data Source=servername;Initial Catalog=xxx;Persist Security Info=True;User ID=xxx;Password=xxx').dbname.dbo.table2 t2 on t1.id = t2.id"> </asp:SqlDataSource>My question is the following :Is there a way to connect to the second server without using the full server declaration into the sql statement ? For information, the server connection is already declare into my web.config like that :<add name="bdConnectionString2" connectionString="Data Source=servername;Initial Catalog=xxx;Persist Security Info=True;User ID=xxx;Password=xxx" providerName="System.Data.SqlClient" />so is there a way to use 'bdConnectionString2' directly ?If not, is there a way to connect to the second server without entering informations like User ID and Password ? My problem being that I'm not sure it's safe to send this informations directly from the asp.net page. Thank you
To delete records in tableA which is not found in tableB i am using the following : DELETE tableA from tableA aa left join tableB bb on aa.fld = bb.fld where bb.fld is null ** This will work fine ** but if i Use similer but using OPENDATASOURCE , like this:
delete OPENDATASOURCE('Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0', 'Data Source="c: empdata2004.mdb"; User ID="Admin";Password="";Jet OLEDB:Database Password="lea"')...tableA from OPENDATASOURCE('Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0', 'Data Source="c: empdata2004.mdb"; User ID="Admin";Password="";Jet OLEDB:Database Password="lea"')...tableA aa left join tableB bb on aa.lno=ba.lno where b.lno is null
begin select @datasource = 'Data Source="c:/' +@FOLDERNAME +'/' +@FILENAME +'";User ID=;Password=;Extended properties=Excel 5.0' select * into #excel_table from OpenDataSource( 'Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0', @DATASOURCE)...sheet1$ end
need to do this ... but using variables in opendatasource not allowed.
so how do we go about it
What i need to do is allow upload of any excel file ... may contain errors and then perform some checks on the data before putting it into another table with a fixed structure.
I need to read a tables in an acess database. The access database has no user/password. All the examples of openrowset show a userid and password. How do I read access table without them?
Similar to a previous post (http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=244646&SiteID=1), I am trying to import data into a SQL Table.
I am trying to program a small application that will import product data obtained through suppliers via CD-ROM. One supplier in particular uses Fixed width colums, and data looks like this:
Example of Data
0124015Apple Crate 32.12
0124016Bananna Box 12.56
0124017Mango Carton 15.98
0124018Seedless Watermelon 42.98 My Table would then have: ProductID as int Name as text Cost as money
How would I go about extracting the data with an XML Format file? I am stumbling over how to tell it where to start picking up data for a specific column. Is there any way that I could trim the Name column (i.e.: "Mango Carton " --> "Mango Carton")?
I don't know if it makes any difference, but I've been calling SQL from my code by doing this:
Code in C# Form
SqlConnection SqlConnection = new SqlConnection(global::SQLClients.Properties.Settings.Default.ClientPhonebookConnectionString); SqlCommand cmd = new SqlCommand();
SqlConnection.Open(); cmd.ExecuteNonQuery(); SqlConnection.Close(); RefreshData(); I am running Visual Studio C# Express 2005 and SQL Server Express 2005.
