I am doing exactly what is outlined here:
SSIS: Lesson 1 – Export to CSV
But no matter what I do I cannot get my file to open as a "formatted" .csv as shown in this simple.
My .csv files are actually showing the delimiter I choose and the data is not formatted into each column and row. I am having to do the text to column to get the data aligned. What am I missing??!! I am using SSIS 2017.
Is this an issue with excel not picking up my delimiters when I try to open the .csv file?
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As per title. Not sure what to do to extract the correct data format.
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If you are copy pasting to Excel, first format the column as text and then try to paste the data. You can use the Data->Get Data->From Database in Excel to directly extract the table data from database and the columns will be formatted automatically.
I'm into a task of importing a CSV file to SQL server table. I'm using bcp tool as my data can be large. The issue im facing with bcp is that the table where I'm gonna import CSV into can have a mix of data types like date, int, etc and if I use bcp using native mode (-n), I will need bcp file as the input but I have CSV file.
Is there any way to convert CSV file into bcp file? or
How can I import a CSV file into SQL server table given that my table columns can have any data type and not just character types?
Had it been that all columns are of character type, i would have used bcp tool with -c option.
Actually... the safest thing to do when importing data, especially when it ins bulk like this, is to import it into a staging table first. In this case where all of the fields are string/varchars. That then allows you to scrub/validate the data and make sure it's safe for consumption. Then once you've verified it, move/copy it to your production tables converting it to the proper type as you go. That's typically what I do when dealing with import data.
a CSV file is just a text file that is delimited by commas. With regard to importing text files, there is no such thing as a 'BCP' file. BCP has an option to work with native SQL data (unreadable to the human eye with a text editor), but the default is to just work with text the same as what you have in your CSV file. There is no conversion needed, with using textual data, there is no such thing as a "BCP file". It's just a ascii text file.
Whoever created the text file has already completed a conversion from their natural datatypes into text. As others have suggested, you will save yourself some pain later if you just load the textual CSV data file you have into a "load" table of all "VARCHAR" fields. Then from that load table you can manipulate the data into whatever datatypes you require in your final destination table. Better to do this than to make SQL do implied conversions by having BCP insert data directly into the final destination table.
How can I load BAI2 file to SSIS?
.BAI2 is an industry standard format used by the banks. Below is the one truncated example
01,021000021,CST_USER,110520,1610,1627,,,2/
02,CST_USER,089900137,1,110509,1610,,2/
03,000000370053368,USD,010,782711622,,,015,7620008 12,,,040,760753198,,/
88,043,760000052,,,045,760010026,,,050,760000040,, ,055,760000045,,/
Use a Flat file connection manager
I think you can import these files using a flat file connection manager, because they are similar to comma separated text, try to change the row delimiter and column delimiter properties to find the appropriate one.
From the example you mentioned i think you should use:
, as Column delimiter
/ as Row delimiter
To learn more about how to interpret a BAI2 file check the following link:
EBS – How to interpret a BAI2 file
Based on this link:
The BAI2 file is a plain text file (.TXT Format), which contains values / texts one after the other.
Because the number of columns is not fixed among all rows than you must use define only one column (DT_STR,4000) in the flat file connection manager, and split columns using a Script Component:
SSIS ragged file not recognized CRLF
how to check column structure in ssis?
SSIS : Creating a flat file with different row formats
Helpful links
SQL SERVER – Import CSV File into Database Table Using SSIS
Importing Flat Files with Inconsistent Formatting Using SSIS
SSIS Lesson 2: First Package
I have a task where I need to generate a CSV file from data coming out of two views including a Header having hard coded values and a Trailer at the bottom of the CSV file having These fields- Record_Type = E99, Row_count, and Blank field with 190 length.
I'm able to get the desired output file but I am not able to figure out how to retrieve the NO. of rows coming out of the two vies and write it in between the record type and the blank field at the bottom of the CSV as the whole line is trailer with | delimited.
Please help me figure this out.
Thanks.
My suggestion:
I assume you are using the SSIS Package to solve this problem.
Create a SQL Staging table to store the content which you want to export in CSV file. You may use stored procedure to truncate and refill this staging table by executing it. Execute this store procedure through Execute SQL Task in SSIS Package
Use Data Flow Task to export the data from staging table to CSV file. Input will be SQL Staging table and output will be flat file with Comma(,) delimiter.
I hope it will help you
I am trying to export data from SQL server 2008 to Excel file using BIDS.
One of the fields 'DESCRIPTION' coming from SQL database is VARCHAR(4000).
I can export everything to excel but the 'DESCRIPTION' field size in excel is restricted to unicode 255 and no mater what I try it does not allow me to export the data over 255 characters (exports it as blank). I tried to change SQL field as varchar(max) or ntext but none of attempts worked. I used advanced editor in BIDS on excel destination to change 'DESCRIPTION' character length manually but as soon as I hit 'OK', it resets to unicode 255.
Could anybody please help me to resolve this issue?
Thanks,
Vishal
So, I did some testing. Excel data transformation is funky but I came up with a solution. I created an excel spreadsheet with fields as needed. I then created fake, dummy data in excel with character length far greater than 255 and hid the row. I then did the SSIS data transformation to the excel spreadsheet which worked. It's a weird and not preferable option but it works.
Problem: Excel only accepts 255 chars per cell when I attempt to use Excel Destination in SSIS (2008 R2) from a sql server table. SalesForce data loader would not accept CSV (with “” text qualifiers) created by
ssis flat file connection manager. SalesForce will only accept CSV (with “” text qualifiers). SalesForce will accept CSV as exported by Excel (2010).
Solution:
1. Create your excel connection manager, set name/path of the destination EXCEL file in your “Excel Destination Data Flow Competent” and map meta-data.
2. Open a new Excel file, remove all extra “sheets”, rename “sheet1” to that was created in step#1, above, select all cells and format to “text”, add all the column header names to the first row of your template sheet. In the columns that need to hold more data than 255 limit, paste in any characters that exceed your limit by 50% (just in case). These columns are now configured to hold your large data. Save the file, naming it something like TEMPLATE_Excel_forLargeCellValues.xlsx
3. Copy this template into your DESTINATION connection: Before your “Excel Destination Data Flow Competent” in the SSIS Control Flow, create a new “File System Task”. Create an ssis pkg level variable to hold the path/filename of your template excel file. In your “File System Task” set “IsSourcePathVariable” = TRUE, set “SourceVariable” to User::Template_Excel. Set “IsDestinationPathVariable” = FALSE, and set “DestinationConnection” = from step #1 above. Set “Operation” = Copy file. “OverwriteDestination”=TRUE. This will now copy your formatted Excel workbook/sheet into your destination folder with the file name you designated in step #1 above and because you put a larger amount of sample data in the columns that require more than 255 chars, all your data will fit.
Note: It is not necessary to delay validation on any components.
You're saying that the excel field is set to 255 right? Changing the SQL field won't have an effect on excel, you'd have to modify the excel file.
I don't believe you can modify the Excel output column to write more than 255 characters. Why not simply write your output to a csv, it can be opened and later modified in Excel anyway.
SSIS excel engine recognizes datatype of first 8 rows and assigns it to excel source or destination automatically. Even defining the excel column as memo wont work. I tried to resolve the error by changing registry value TypeGuessRows of excel engine but it did not work either. So I was not left with any other option but to create a dummy row(2nd row) with more than 255 characters and hide it.Excel source then identify the column with unicode text stream. You have to write some logic in SSIS package to exclude this row if you are trying to import the data from excel. I heard that this issue is resolved in excel versions on and after 2010. But BIDS 2008 does not have option to choose any version after 2007 so this is the only solution if you are working with BIDS 2008 and excel.
You have to select Microsoft Excel 97-2003 and use the xls as file extension in your file name for destination.
I got the same issue of the excel destination not allowing more than 255 characters. After spending almost a day, I tried adding more characters (to simplify, I added spaces more than 255) in the header of the column that has the issue with more than 255 characters. And it magically worked!
You can insert dummy data (260 characters) to under head column you want in your excel (Execute SQL Task)
Script Create and insert
CREATE TABLE `YourSheet` (`myColumn260char` LongText)
GO
INSERT INTO YourSheet(myColumn260char) Values('....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................')
And you can delete dummy row after imported.