Compare particular Colums between 2 flat files in SSIS
Hi ,
I want to compare a particular columns bewtween files. if any columns values will mismatched , i need to stop my loading into table.
For example:( Before load into tables)
Flat file 1: Employee
Name Location
M India
C USA
Flat File 2: Location
Location
India.
here USA location is missing .so i need to do this validation before load in to my table. Please sugesst some solution on this.
Hi Marimuthu,
This thread should be helpful for you: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/sqlserver/en-US/d9a6ab7e-72cc-4e99-bfcf-101f9ee6106c/how-to-compare-two-flat-files-in-ssis?forum=sqlintegrationservices
You'll need to load the data from the files to a table and then use an SQL query to check them against eachother. From there you can either specify to end the job or only load the matching rows.
Jordan Johnson
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I am creating a header in the flat file destination which has some hard coded values and record count which will get its value from a variable assisgned to a row count transformation in the package.
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A much better option in this case would be bcp as you can generate query with values in the order you want and bcp it out
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms162802.aspx
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>>>BPM Collecting and Bundling Messages - One Interface
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Should I somehow create and fill Currency field in DataSource?
or
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I have created a flat file through ssis. My input is excel file. I have 21 columns in excel so when i created flat file with row deliminator as CR LF and column del as ; i got 20 semicolons total for 21 coloums which is guinine . but i need 21 ; for all
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I have Flat file Source data I am trying to Import OLEDB Destination so I am getting below
Whis Is Error I am getting at Flat File Source
[SSIS.Pipeline] Error: SSIS Error Code DTS_E_PRIMEOUTPUTFAILED. The PrimeOutput method on Flat File Source returned error code 0xC0202091. The component returned a failure code when the pipeline engine called PrimeOutput(). The meaning of the failure
code is defined by the component, but the error is fatal and the pipeline stopped executing. There may be error messages posted before this with more information about the failure.
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[Flat File Source [2]] Error: Data conversion failed. The data conversion for column "LongName" returned status value 4 and status text "Text was truncated or one or more characters had no match in the target code page."
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Flat Files - Column Concantenation
I was just wondering if anyone has ever written something or knows of a source where one can get a list of handy hints of dealing with flat files in SSIS so as to avoid common drawbacks associated with loading data from flat files. In my experience
I have noticed that flat files can be such a headache. I have worked with flat files for a wile now and I’m relatively comfortable with them. Occasionally I hit on stubborn issues. My latest challenge is that I’m getting two of the columns from a CSV file
being concatenated in the intended destination. Please see the illustration below.
Surprising thing is that the concatenated columns have a coma separating them.
The rows affected by this end up with associated columns being shifted out of proper mapping.
In the illustration below the first two rows are the offending rows and the last two rows show what the expected results should look like.
Data type is VARCHAR on all columns
ProductCode
ProductName
Quantity
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NULL
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Bread
13,2014-03-06
NULL
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4
2014-05-02
EGG
Eggs
12
2014-03-12
The following are the things which I have tried without success yet
Ticking box “Retain NULL Values” box on the Flat File Source component
Using double quotes for Text Qualifier when exporting data to CSV
Using double quotes for Text Qualifier when loading data from CSV
Not using anything for Text Qualifier
Exporting data to a Raw File destination and importing data from a Raw File source hoping that raw file might preserve the original format.
Please note that the data which is being exported has none of the values from the source columns with comas in them. All values in all columns do not have any special characters. They are simple alphanumeric.
Suggestions will be warmly welcome.
Many thanks,
MpumeleloThank you for your responses
Jonathan – I’ve never used a hex editor before. Is there any other way round that other than hex editor?
B3nt3n – What is your delimiter? – I don’t know if I understand your question correctly. I am using the default settings on the Flat File component. The only places where I have made changes are addition of the
double quotes to the Text Qualifier areas as well as putting a tick on the “retain null values …” option. Everything else is default.
A csv would have commas. But you are saying there are no commas when you open the .csv in notepad?
– I meant there are no comas in the original data values as they are on the table before being exported to the csv file. That is, none of the values on a given column has a coma in it. However, there are comas on the csv file itself as you have rightly said
about csv file formats, but not on the table for this data that I am dealing with.
Mpumelelo
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