I am creating a SSIS package that imporr data from a SQL Server Source to an Excel Destination.
How can one truncate spreadsheet before run?
I tried the following way (using Execute SQL Task with no success.
Jet provider does not support neither truncate or delete command. You have 3 workarounds:
Have an empty excel template that you clone before the running the dataflow, or
Use execute sql task to create a new workbook/tab before running the dataflow
Drop the worksheet using Drop Table TableCall_Log and create a new one. You can referer to this Link for more details.
Useful Links
Deleting Records in an Excel Sheet using SSIS
Import Header-Line tables into Dynamic Excel destinations II
SSIS: Dynamically Generate Excel Table/Sheet
Truncation is not supported. You can recreate the whole excel file using two tasks:
The first task will be File task which deletes destination xls file.
The second task will be Execute SQL Task, which creates "table" (excel sheet). Use EXCEL connection type with excel connection manager and CREATE TABLE statement.
If you do not know the exact form of CREATE TABLE statement, then try to first prepare excel destination in a data flow task and by creating new excel sheet (by pushing New button on Connection Manager tab in Excel Destination editor) SSIS designer will show you CREATE TABLE statement which you need.
Connect the first task to the second task using Completion constraint if you are not sure, that the excel file exists every time you run the package.
You may also need to set DelayedValidation property to True on tasks following these first two tasks.
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Problem is as simple Client want to store executable sql task queries result in Excel file.I have set full result set as a object but cant consume that object anywhere.
You need to export data from SQL Server to Excel using SSIS, right? In SSIS, you need to create a data flow task. Inside the data flow task you need an OLEDB data source or an ADO.NET data source. Then you need an Excel destination. Connect the source and destination and configure the mappings and other settings. More detailed instructions can be found in this tutorial: https://codingsight.com/export-data-from-sql-server-to-excel-and-text-file-via-using-ssis-package/
Add a Data Flow Task that contains a Script Component Source where you generate output rows from the recordset and an Excel Destination:
Using The SSIS Object Variable As A Data Flow Source
Implementing Recordset Source
On the other hand, you can simply use the SQL Command that you are executing in the Execute SQL Task in an OLE DB Source which is more simple.
I have an SSIS package that contains a SQL task to create aN excel table once its been dropped, this works fine, my question is is it possible to either have a sql task to create a worksheet and a range. or a SQL task to insert data into a particular range within a previously created worksheet?
I've created an SSIS package with the purpose of deleting and then recreating an Excel sheet, and then inserting data from a SQL database into that Excel sheet.
What I currenty have is:
1.) An Execute SQL task to delete 'Sheet1' from a local Excel file.
2.) An Execute SQL task to recreate 'Sheet1' in the same Excel file.
3.) A Data Flow task that uses an OLE DB Source to a 2005 SQL Server database.
4.) An Excel Destinaton (using an Excel Connection Manager) which points at / maps the SQL Server columns to the local Excel spreadsheet.
So essentially I'm deleting the Excel Sheet to remove old data, recreating it, and then trying to import the SQL data into it.
This worked well when I ran it the first time. When I try to rerun it however, all the tasks run successfully, the correct number of rows are shown to move to the Excel destination on the data flow tab, but the Excel spreadsheets are blank.
Can anyone suggest why this might be happening?
Thanks, Gavin
Is this the only sheet in your Excel file? If so, it might be easier to use the File System Task component to delete the entire file before creating your sheet (and therefore file) in your Execute SQL statement.
I want to transfer data from tableA to tableB using SSIS. These tables are in the same server and database I am using OLEDB source and OLEDB destination. However it does not write any rows and there are no errors being reported.
If I change OLEDB source to read from a different server with the same database name it works. How can I recreate the SSIS package? All help appreciated.
Try to Use ADO.NET source and destination instead of OLEDB.
It wouldn't be problem if the tables are on same server, and database.
Create an Execute SQL task, which truncate you destination table.
Create a dataflow task, and create an ADO.NET source and destination inside the task.
If you haven't created package before:
you can also create SSIS package with ImportExportTool like this:
SSIS Tutorial, and check the Save SSIS package checkbox.
After the tool created the package, you can open it in visual studio and modify it.
The package will contain OLEDB source and destinations. It should work.
The data transformation components are very useful for a couple of issue.
I have a ssis package which calls stored procudere and fill data in a table say table1.
I have a excel file at shared location which already contains 2 sheets and necessary information on these sheets.I have to add another sheet in the existing excel file with the data of table1 copied into it through ssis/sql.
Please help
I would modify your existing package by adding a Data Flow after the Execute SQL Task. The Data Flow task would most likely contain an OLE DB source with a query like SELECT * FROM table1 You might need a type conversion task attached to that to make the data into unicode, can't say for certain based on the paucity of details. Wire that into an Excel Destination. I answered an earlier question on writing to hidden Excel Sheets which might provide some insight on using Excel in SSIS.