in the DataFlow-Task of an SSIS-Package I have a Flat-File-Source. The text in this file is encoded as UTF-8.
When I am using a lookup task to check a dimension table in the database, I get no match for text with special characters. The lookup task finds matches for many rows, but not for those with characters like "ü,ä,ö...". This is not corret, because there are rows in the table, so it should match.
What I've done so is, using a convert-task and convert the string from UTF-8 to Windows ANSI - Codepage 1252 with the exact same string length as the column in the Dimension table. The column in the dimension table has the collation "Latin1_General_CI_AS". I've also set the DefaulCodepage-Property of the lookup-task to 1252.
Does everyone know, what I did miss to do?
Thanks.
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I'm trying to insert some value that is having Russian characters from SSIS.
Say I have a MYDATA.TXT (comma separated) and data as below
REM,DES,ID
FR1,Головка,8
GY2,6-гр,9
MO0,Болт,2
1st row is column headers. I'm using this in Flat file. After executing the task, the value are different in my table something like Головка
After some research I found that i have to use N before the text and column should be NVARCHAR. But i'm not sure how to do this in SSIS. I have around 1.2 million records, should I prefix my column with N for all rows or is there any other way in SSIS?
Try to change the code page to 65001 (UTF-8).
In Advanced tab change the Datatype of DES column to unicode string [DT_WSTR]
Output:
Can someone tell me how I code in SQL Server so that I am looking in a varchar text column to see if it contains a numerical range within the text?
For example, I'm looking for columns that contain anything between 100000 and 999999. The column may have a value like
this field contains a number `567391`
so I want to select that one, but not if it had
this field contains a number `5391`
For your given example, you can check the digits:
where col like '%[^0-9][1-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][^0-9]%'
This is not a generic solution, but it works for your example. In general, parsing strings in SQL Server is difficult. It is better to extract the values you are interested in when loading the data, so the relevant values are correctly in their own columns.
I want to read data from text file (.csv), truncate one of the column to 1000 characters and push into SQL table using SSIS Package.
The input (DT_TEXT) is of length 11,000 characters but my Challenge is ...
SSIS can convert to (DT_STR) only if Max length is 8,000 characters.
String operations cannot be performed on Stream (DT_TEXT data type)
Got a workaround/solution now;
I truncate the text in Flat File Source and selected the option to Ignore the Error;
Please share if you find a better solution!
FYI:
To help anyone else that finds this, I applied a similar concept more generally in a data flow when consuming a text stream [DT_TEXT] in a Derived Column Transformation task to transform it to [DT_WSTR] type to my defined length. This more easily calls out the conversion taking place.
Expression: (DT_WSTR,1000)(DT_STR,1000,1252)myLargeTextColumn
Data Type: Unicode string [DT_WSTR]
Length: 1000
*I used 1252 codepage since my DT_TEXT is UTF-8 encoded.
For this Derived Column, I also set the TruncationRowDisposition to RD_IgnmoreFailure in the Advanced Editor (or can be done in the Configure Error Output, setting Truncation to "Ignore failure")
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I am copying data from Excel sheet to the SQL server tables.
In some of the sheets I have data bigger in size of the Table's schema in SQL.
i.e. Table's column has data type nvarchar(50) where as my Excel sheet has data of more than 50 characters in some of the shells.
Now while copying, the rows which has such data are not being inserted in to the database. Instead I would like to insert rows with such data by truncating extra characters. How do I do this?
You can use Java's substring method with a check to the length of the string with something like:
row1.foobar.length() > 50 ? row1.foobar.substring(0,50) : row1.foobar
This uses Java's String length method to test to see if it's longer than 50. If it is then it uses the substring method to get the characters between 0 and 50 (so the first 50 characters) and if it's not then it returns the whole string.
If you pop this in a tMap or a tJavaRow then you should be able to limit strings to 50 characters (or whatever you want with some tweaking):
If you'd prefer to remove any rows not compliant with your database schema then you should define your job's schema to match the database schema and then use a tSchemaComplianceCheck component to filter out the rows that don't match that schema.
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.