I've been having a reoccurring problem that escapes me at this point. I have a job set up in SQL Server 2k that has a few command steps which are followed up by 4 steps that just call DTS packages on the same server. When it comes to calling the packages, the job fails with no real reason given. Ok fine...
Well the thing that I can't figure out is that if I run the packages in order separately they work 100% of the time. I've deleted the packages entirely and re-added them as well as modifying the corresponding step. Am I missing something?
Is there something inherit with the DTS package versioning that causes the job to fail when the package runs just fine as a standalone?
Thanks.
We've always had issues with DTS packages on our SQL Server 2000 databases. You could try checking the windows event viewer/system error logs to see if there is anything more detailed in there.
We've had credentialing issues before that jobs would fail because the windows account running the job may have become inactive - so maybe the credentials the first job is running under doesn't have access to run dts packages, but you (as an administrator) do ?
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I have designed a SSIS project and deployed it to SQL server and also created the job to run on daily basis but its giving me this error when executing this as job (doesnt give any error within VS):
There is this CLSid in this error message but there is no application associated to it in
--> Component Services -> Computers -> My Computer -> DCOM Config
But this CLSid is registered inside registry editor
About this particular task on which this error is occurring: This is a script task which is modifying and deleting the un-wanted rows from the excel file in which I am trying to write SQL table data.
Script task code looks like this:
I have been working for hours now trying to fix this problem but no success. Kindly guide me how can I fix this issue. If any other information is required related to this project, please let me know....
Doing Excel automation in a SQL Server agent job is totally unsupported and probably won't work.
To have even a ghost of a chance of making this work you'll need to run a real desktop session on the server and automate Excel in that. Excel expects a real user to be logged in with a full profile. And Excel has failure conditions where it displays a popup window, which you'll need to be able to access via remote desktop.
You can read and write Excel files on a server with the OpenXML SDK, without actually having to run Excel. There's also a wrapper library called ClosedXML which you may find easier to use than using OpenXML directly.
tl;dr;
You need to install Office (Excel) on the server AND ensure that you install it in a manner that mirrors the SQL Agent's expected bit-edness. Default for Agent is going to be 64bit, default for Office is still 32 :(
Error guessing
You have a script task that uses the Office interop libraries to delete some rows (2 through 11?) out of a spreadsheet.
You have Office installed on your machine and therefore you have the libraries installed. Excel still has COM based "stuff" in it, thus the interop and errors shrieking about the CLSid, registry, etc but that's likely just secondary errors because there is no base "application is not installed" exception to be thrown.
If Office is installed, then ensure your agent execution model matches the version of Office. If 32 bit Excel is already installed, don't potentially break everyone else's stuff by uninstalling and reinstalling as 64 bit, just got the Advanced section of the SQL Agent Job Step and check the 32bit box.
Once all that's done, then if you're still getting errors but new ones, then the existing comments mentioning permissions may come into play - it depends on where the Excel document actually exists (on the computer where SQL agent can access vs on the computer where it cannot vs networked drive)
Good luck in not finding people on the sanctions lists.
I have taken a look at several articles including this unanswered question: SQL Server Job runs successfully but doesn't execute packages
I have the exact same problem in SQL Server 2012 using the integration services MSDB catalog. I can execute the SSIS packages manually from that catalog, but the agent job doesn't do anything except state that it completed successfully. I have also executed my SSIS packages from within Visual Studio and they worked just fine. Here's the situation and am wondering if it may be permissions:
SSIS packages look for Excel files matching criteria in a network location.
Once found, the SSIS packages writing the data into the database and archive the file to another folder on that same network location.
Emails are sent upon any failure of import of data into the database or migration into the archive folders.
I have the SQL Agent job running the SSIS packages from a package store (MSDB) using the SQL Server Agent Service Account to run under. Currently we are not doing any sort of project deployment to these servers so I am sticking with package deployment. Here are some steps I've taken:
Run packages manually from Visual Studio 2010 (fully successful).
Run packages manually from SQL Server MSDB catalog (fully successful).
Run job manually from SQL Server Agent using parent package as a step that will execute child packages as an external reference (success but nothing happens).
Run job manually from SQL Server Agent using each package as its own step excluding the parent package (success but nothing happens).
Any ideas? Permissions to the network location or need a proxy? Again, I am running Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Enterprise Edition 64-bit. Many thanks for any help you can provide.
Found the problem. My SSIS package has a foreach loop container and, while the tasks inside the loop container couldn't access the destination, the loop container technically completed successfully. We had to give permissions to the account the steps were running under for the job to correct that. These permissions were put on the network location to allow that account access to read and write to that location. Additionally, my Excel connection was 64-bit so we enabled it to 32-bit runtime and this allowed that portion of the process to complete successfully. I re-enabled any disabled tasks and it looks good to go now. Thanks!
I have also faced this scenario many times but when I checked running the package manually,its completing successfully because I was using for each loop container and sequence container as well.In both cases for each loop and sequence were completing without validating other ones.So I checked precedence constraint and change it,Now it working and all the component ran successfully.
Sometimes we miss to choose appropriate precedence constraint, there are many option like on Success ,failure,completion and then for you can choose values from Constraint ,Expression,Expression AND Constraint and Expression OR Constraint.
Initially i was using Expression OR Constraint for success and now changed it to Expression AND Constraint, its working fine for me.
You also need to do this,it will definitely work please try and let me know.
We have a package that we created in VS. The package executes perfectly in VS. We then saved and deployed the package to SSIS. Inside SQL Server Management Studio, the SSIS package executes perfectly when done manually. We have 2 packages that we manually execute. We are trying to schedule these 2 packages to run automatically using the SQL Server Agent. When we set up a job and schedule it, the job fails. The first step in the package fails with the error: Failed Validation and returned validation status "VS_ISBROKEN"
We think it has to do with the security on SQL Server Agent, but we have checked and all the permissions seem to be set correctly.
Any help is greatly appreciated!
You should be getting additional error messages other than the VS_ISBROKEN, which will be more helpful in figuring out what's going on. It has been my experience that VS_ISBROKEN almost always refers to an invalid query. For example, the query could be referencing an object that doesn't exist on the target server.
I came across a similar problem in an earlier version of SSMS and found the problem was that the owner of the package in SQL server Agent was incorrect and should be sa or dbo
I don't know if it helps but the symptoms for this seem very similar to mine
I set up a job to run a SSIS package in the SSIS Catalog, but the SSIS package doesn't start. If I right-click the package and run it, it completes successfully.
When I look in the execution history of the package in the Catalog, there is no sign that it the package was even started by the job.
I created a test package to make sure it isn't the specific package failing, so the package I'm testing with has a SQL Task that does a 'SELECT 1'. Still fails.
The job just stays in the "Executing" state until I stop the job.
I am running SQL Server 2014 Standard Edition, and running the job with a sysadmin account.
Why is the SQL Agent Job not running my package?
Edit: I had a look through this article but it either doesn't apply or I gave it a shot and it didn't work either.
Edit 2: I found an error under the SQL Server Agent Job History: Unable to terminate process 1850 launched by step 1 of job 0x5DAD5416FA09C445B82ABDBB49F75E38 (reason: Access is denied)
Does that mean my service account doesn't have enough permissions on the local machine? However, I AM able to run the job with DTEXEC using the service account without issues...
I have also faced this scenario many times but when I checked running the package manually,its completing successfully because I was using for each loop container and sequence container as well.In both cases for each loop and sequence were completing without validating other ones.So I checked precedence constraint and change it,Now it working and all the component ran successfully. Sometimes we miss to choose appropriate precedence constraint, there are many option like on Success ,failure,completion and then for you can choose values from Constraint ,Expression,Expression AND Constraint and Expression OR Constraint. Initially i was using Expression OR Constraint for success and now changed it to Expression AND Constraint, its working fine for me. You also need to do this,it will definitely work please try and let me know.
When you look at the connections in the SSIS package, did you put in a user id and password? If so, did you add a package password? The reason I ask is that if you don't add a package password, it will strip out things it thinks should be secure (like passwords). You might want to try putting the connection password in a configuration file, and add that file to the job. Either that or password encrypt the SSIS package but you will have to take special care when you run the package for the first time (or when you create the job) because you will need to provide the password that you used to encrypt the package.
Reboot fixes this issue. Reason is because if you look at this message. Unable to terminate process 1850. That is a windows process. I would say reboot. If you really like to enquire before rebooting. You could use sysinternals process explorer. Download it and use that to find process id 1850 which may be hung process in windows.
Thanks
Ali
I have a DTS (not SSIS) package that hasn't been touched in years that I had to update a query with. When I run the package by manually executing each step in the editor, everything works out fine and generates a file of a couple thousand records as expected. When I hit the "Execute" button at the top of the editor to run the whole package, it doesn't error but the file is generated with only 1 record.
All tasks inside of the package are either transformation steps or Sql Tasks. There are not any ActiveX script tasks. When I watch the process as it's running the steps by itself, the execution is following the mapping correctly.
I'm at a loss on this one. Has anyone seen this issue before or have any idea where to start?
I just ran into a similar issue recently. While working with the senior DBA, we found that the server where the package ran did not have the right permissions to a directory on the network. The package ran fine in my box, but died on the production server. We need to give permissions to the sqlservice account on the production box, to write to the directory on the network.
You might also want to check out any ActiveX Script step that changes the connection string or destination of Data Pump steps. I've had cases where these were different on the destination server that the DTS packages run.
After going through all of the lines of all of the stored procedures and straight sql tasks used in the package, I located a SET ROWCOUNT 1 that was never reset. While I was manually executing each step separately, the RowCount would be automatically reset; however, when it was run as a complete package, the RowCount was never reset. Adding SET ROWCOUNT 0 at the end of the particular script resolved this issue.