I have an excel file (xlsx) containing a table :
Once I launched my ssis task (successfully) to insert data in it, it is actually append after the table :
My expected result:
So I am looking for a way to insert into the table and expand it with the data. I hope someone could help me.
I would not use SSIS for this, you may have Excel2007 as linked server , putting data into Excel by regular TSQL, or process data by Excel VBA getting data directly from SQL Server. As a matter of practical sanity, I would not ever use SSIS for anything
Well, there is not much information how you do it but you should specify somehow that first row should not be used as header names container (HDR=NO), something like,
insert into OPENROWSET('Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0',
'Excel 8.0;Database=D:\testing.xls; ; HDR=NO',
'SELECT * FROM [Sheet1$]')
I finally found an answer.
So I needed to generate excel reports with a lot of pivot charts linked to a main table.
But using a table was a bad idea. Instead, the pivot charts must be linked to a named range.
The last thing to know is that the error message "Invalid References" appears if the named range doesn't use the OFFSET function.
My named range formula is :
=OFFSET(Sheet!$A$1, 0, 0, COUNTA(Sheet!$A:$A), NUMBER_OF_COLUMNS)
Where Sheet is the name of the worksheet and NUMBER_OF_COLUMNS is the number of columns of the data.
That's it. I can now generate excel report without any line of code, only using SSIS 2005.
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Hopefully, this is not an ignorant question as I am still working to build SSIS Skills.
I Have a package that takes an excel sheet and loads it into an SSMS SQL table so that I can run analysis and update statements to the data. I am now looking to load that SQL table back into an Excel sheet. I have made an excel sheet as a template of a replication of the SQL table.
The issue I am now having is I have a field named "Comment" that datatype is Nvarchar(MAX) in my SQL table. This column does contain NULL values as well. When I am trying to load these back to the Excel column I am having an error.
[Excel Destination [28]] Error: An error occurred while setting up a binding for the "Comment" column. The binding status was "DT_NTEXT".
I thought perhaps I could do a Data Conversion to a string with the max character (Which is 757) but it truncates and errors on that size.
This data came from an excel column so I would think I can load it back to a column.
Thanks for the help!!
Previously I thought that Excel does not allow exporting data with longer than 255 characters. After running several experiments, exporting DT_NTEXT values to Excel can be done using SSIS:
You should create an Excel file with one dummy row that contains long text values (> 255) then use this Excel as a destination. If the Excel contains previous data, make sure to add this dummy row directly after the file header and add ;IMEX=1 to the OLE DB connectionstring.
I have multiple Excel files that have the same format. I need to import them into SQL Server.
The issue I currently have is that there are two text columns that I need to ignore completely as they are free text and the character length for some rows exceeds what the server allows me to import which results in a truncation error.
Because I don't need these columns for my analysis, the table I'm importing to doesn't include these columns but for some reason the SSIS packages still picks up those columns and cuts the import job halfway through.
I tried using max character length for those columns which still results in the truncation error.
I need to create an SSIS package that ignores the two columns completely without deleting the columns from Excel.
You can specify which columns you need to ignore from the Edit Mappings dialog.
I have added the image for your reference:
If you just create the SSIS package in SSDT the Excel file can be queried to return only the required columns. In the package, create an Excel Connection Manager using the Excel file. Then on the Control Flow of the package add a Data Flow Task that has an Excel Source component in it. On this source, change the data access mode to SQL command and the file can then be queried similar to SQL. In the following example TabName is the name of the Excel tab containing the data that will be returned. If either the tab or any column names contain spaces they will need to be enclosed in square brackets, i.e. TabName would be [Tab Name].
Import/Export Wizard
Since you mentioned in the comments that you are using SQL Server Import/Export Wizard. You can solve that if you have a fixed columns (range) that you are looking to import (example: first 10 columns).
In Import/Export wizard, after selecting destination options you will be asked if you want to read from tables or query:
Select the query option, then use a simple select query and specify the columns range after the sheet name. As example:
SELECT * FROM [Sheet1$A:C]
The query above will read from the first 3 columns in Sheet1 since A:C represent the range between first column A and third column C.
Now, you can check the columns from the Edit Mappings dialog:
SSIS
You can use the same logic within SSIS package, just write the same SQL command in the Excel Source after changing the Access Mode to SQL Command.
The solution is simple. I needed to write a query that will exclude the columns. So instead of selecting "Copy data from one or more tables" you select "write a query" and exclude the columns you don't need. This one worked 100%
Good day to you, Experts.
I'm stuck on a problem I'm having with an Excel 97-02 .xls file.
When adding it as a source in SSIS, I'm getting an External Columns Datatype of DT_IMAGE .
The column represents an ID and is numeric only. I can't extract and work with the data because of the DT_IMAGE datatype.
Setting IMEX=1 didn't help.
Thank you in advance.
Reading Excel files in SSIS is done using OLEDB provider which may not detect the appropriate Excel column type.
There are many other questions mentioning similar issues such as:
SSIS Excel Import Forcing Incorrect Column Type
SSIS Excel Data Source - Is it possible to override column data types?
SSIS keeps force changing excel source string to float
As you mentioned in the question, if you added ;Extended Properties="IMEX=1" to the connectionstring with no luck then i think there is 4 things you can try:
Sorting column data inside Excel
Change the entire column formatting manually
Go to the advanced editor on the Excel source >> into the output column list and set the type for each of the columns.
Adding IMEX=1; MAXROWSTOSCAN=0 to the connectionstring
If nothing of the above steps worked then you should save the Excel sheet as a text file and then you use Flat File Connection manager
I have an SSIS package with an Excel Source reads an Excel table. I currently am using the Table or View Data Access Mode and it is literally reading every row in the worksheet, 1,048,576 which is the maximum.
The source worksheet has an Excel table on it named PSA_DATA. Why isn't this table in the Table or View drop down? There is an option for the worksheet followed by _FilterDatabase but this fails when I run the package even though it pulls the correct data when I press Preview. Wouldn't this make more sense than using the SQL Command and SELECT * FROM [fact_PSA$Ax:Bx]? The whole reason we use Named Ranges and Tables in Excel is because they are dynamic! Now I have to hard code the range in every time with rows numbers?
What am I missing here? Is there an easier way I am missing? I just want to move an Excel table into a SQL table! Why don't doesn't the most ubiquitous piece of software in the world easily talk to the second most ubiquitous piece of software in the world!?!?!
If the sheet name is not shown in Table or view combobox, it is not a bad idea to use a Sql Command.
But When using SQL Comand to read from excel it is not necessary to specify a range, OLEDB will take used range by default just use the following command
SELECT * FROM [fact_PSA$]
Workaround
you can try reading your excel file from a script task or a script component, you can follow one of the following links to achieve this:
https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/sqlserver/en-US/2d45f180-9fd0-4224-a298-cb99e2b2100a/how-to-read-the-contents-of-excel-file-through-ssis-script-task-without-the-headers?forum=sqlintegrationservices
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms403358.aspx
http://billfellows.blogspot.com/2013/04/ssis-excel-source-via-script.html
Side Note: there are many links you can follow to import data from excel to SQL using SSIS:
http://www.sqlshack.com/using-ssis-packages-import-ms-excel-data-database/
https://www.mssqltips.com/sqlservertip/2770/importing-data-from-excel-using-ssis--part-1/
https://www.simple-talk.com/sql/ssis/moving-data-from-excel-to-sql-server-10-steps-to-follow/
https://www.simple-talk.com/sql/ssis/importing-excel-data-into-sql-server-via-ssis-questions-you-were-too-shy-to-ask/
I appreciate the links to work-arounds, but I didn't really get an answer to my question. Why can't we reference an EXCEL TABLE (not a worksheet) from the SSIS Excel Source???
I ended up using the SQL Command data access mode with this query:
SELECT * FROM [fact_PSA$A:W]
WHERE fact_PSA_ID IS NOT NULL
Somehow, using SQL stopped it from reading every possible row in the worksheet even though the range provided is set for "A:W" which is every row. I guess the "WHERE fact_PSA_ID" limits the rows read before it hits the SSIS source.
I need to create an SSIS package to load data from a CSV, the tricky part is some of the columns need to be stored as rows. I better explain it with an example below.
From CSV file to Table in a different format as shown below
Is it possible with in SSIS or using SQL Server.
What you seek is called unpivot.
Please see this MSDN blog post for an example. To drop 0 values, you can use a conditional split, and push the 0 values to a garbage output.
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dataaccesstechnologies/archive/2014/05/22/unvipot-transformation-with-a-combination-of-single-and-multiple-destination-columns.aspx