I have a flat file connector in SSIS but for some reason it is not splitting the commas into columns. I have the column delimiter set to comma and you can see in "Column 0" there is commas "," however it just doesn't want to split them. Has anyone come across this before? Any help would be amazing!
The file has a LF line terminators (UNIX way). Is this an issue for SSIS? There is an option I have selected.
I've found the solution, needed to remove a few rows to get the headers to split, using the "Header row to skip" entry. Thanks for all your help!
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I am trying to load a .csv table to MS SQL Server via Azure Data Factory, but I have a problem with the delimiter (;) since it appears as a character in some of the values included in some columns.
As a result, I get an error saying in the details "found more columns than expected column count".
Is there any way to change the delimiter directly on ADF before/while loading the .csv table (ex.: making it from ";" to "|||")?
Thanks in advance!
I have a problem with the delimiter (;) since it appears as a
character in some of the values included in some columns.
As you have quoted that your delimiter is ; but it is occurring as a character in some of the columns which means that there is no specific pattern of the occurrence. Hence, it is not possible in ADF.
The recommendation is to write a program using any preferred language (like python) which will iterate each row from the dataset and write a logic to replace the delimiter to ||| or you can also remove the unrequired ; and append the changes in new file. Later you can ingest this new file in ADF.
I am trying to import the data from a .csv file to SQL table using SSIS data flow task. One row in my .csv file is like
Col1,Col2,Col3
1200,"ABC","Value is \"greater\" than expected"
While creating the Flat file connection, I have given Comma as Delimiter and " as Qualifier. And created a derived column (REPLACE(Col3,"\"","")) as the second step to remove \" from column3.
But as soon as I start running the package I get an error in the Flat file source itself as "Column delimiter for col3 was not found".
Can someone please guide me in solving this issue?
You may need to escape the slash too, try this please and let us know:
(REPLACE(Col3,"\\\"",""))
I want to import *.csv file. There is head row with the column names, and data rows below. The problem is in column description.This column has multi-line text and each line is recognised as the record.
Document has {CR}{LF} for the end of row, and {LF} for the end of line in multi-line text. Like this:
(0)"Name","Description" {CR}{LF}
(1)"John","adsaddsadas" {CR}{LF}
(2)"Mike","dasdsadsdsda
dsadadsdasdsa {LF}
dsadadsadsad {LF}
dasdsadsadsd"{CR}{LF}
(3)"Dave","dsada"{CR}{LF}
It returns an error saying the row (2) is truncated and is missing data
I have selected {CR}{LF} as delimiter, but it still recognises this as 6 records instead of 3, i suppose it, for some reason, recognises {LF} as row delimiter.
Is there anyone who had similar issue here, or knows how to get over this.
Also i want to mention i don't have a lot of experience with this, so i don't know if there is data missing.
In your flat file connection manager make sure that the Header Row Delimiter is set to {CR}{LF}
And That the Row Delimiter is also set to {CR}{LF}
And Check that Description Column has a length of 4000 (to prevent text from getting truncated) and that the last column delimiter is {CR}{LF}
I have a CSV file I am importing through SSIS.Below is an sample of the data in my file
"MEM1001","OTHER","P" ,20101001,20781231,,20781231,20101001,
"Medic","General >21" ,
"A100100" ,"2210",20101001,20781231
I have added , as column delimiter and " as Text Qualifier in the connection manager.
But columns like "P" ,"Medic","General >21" ,"A100100" , are still coming enclosed with double quotes when I preview the data while rest the of the string columns are coming without double quotes.
I am guessing it has something to do with the spaces after the quotes.
Can somebody explain why this is happening and how can i make this columns to come without double quotes while importing the data from file to table.
I just stumbled across this post, I had the same issues, I was trying around and could not find any other solution.
The text qualifier " only works in csv files, when the quote is directly after the colon, no space after the colon and the text identifier/qualifier. I have no idea why.
If you aren't able to fix the input data, an option would be to create a derived column and to replace the double quotes.
This worked for me:
How to replace double quotes in derived column transformation?
Trim(REPLACE(COLA, "\"", ""))
You should also add the Trim(), otherwise you have empty spaces before and maybe after the word. This could be problematic in a merge join (in my case it was).
I don't know why this extra spaces cause this issue.
Here is what I would do. It may not be the best idea, but it should work.
You will need to add script task before data flow task that would replace all " ," and ", " to ",".
Thank you
Why not just go to the Connection Manager for that csv file, click on Columns, and under the Column delimiter box just enter a space followed by a comma? Worked for me.
I have data in the csv file similar to this:
Name,Age,Location,Score
"Bob, B",34,Boston,0
"Mike, M",76,Miami,678
"Rachel, R",17,Richmond,"1,234"
While trying to BULK INSERT this data into a SQL Server table, I encountered two problems.
If I use FIELDTERMINATOR=',' then it splits the first (and sometimes the last) column
The last column is an integer column but it has quotes and comma thousand separator whenever the number is greater than 1000
Is there a way to import this data (using XML Format File or whatever) without manually parsing the csv file first?
I appreciate any help. Thanks.
You can parse the file with http://filehelpers.sourceforge.net/
And with that result, use the approach here: SQL Bulkcopy YYYYMMDD problem or straight into SqlBulkCopy
Use MySQL load data:
LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE 'path-to-/filename.csv' INTO TABLE `sql_tablename`
CHARACTER SET 'utf8'
FIELDS TERMINATED BY ',' OPTIONALLY ENCLOSED BY '\"'
IGNORE 1 LINES;
The part optionally enclosed by '\"', or escape character and quote, will keep the data in the first column together for the first field.
IGNORE 1 LINES will leave the field name row out.
UTF8 line is optional but good to use if names have diacritics, like in José.