Compressing an Excel file in SSIS

J have an SSIS procedure that creates an Excel spreadsheet of 70,000 rows and about 8 columns. The size is 3.5 meg which exceeds the attachment limit and prevents me from sending the spreadsheet as an attachment in my sendmail procedure.
Are there any properties in SSIS that would enable me to compress this file?

You can use J# redistributable functions inside SSIS script task for zipping files
see
http://microsoft-ssis.blogspot.in/2011/01/zip-sourcefile-to-archive.html
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I need to delete the second row in an excel file in my SSIS package. Is that possbile to do?
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Hi Rich,
Please read the below links:
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http://www.grapefruitmoon.net/deleting-from-excel-in-ssis-a-workaround/
Maruthi... http://www.msbimaru.blogspot.com/
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You can do it in two steps
1. First get all data from excel sheets to a sql staging table. For that you need to use a looping logic as explained in below link (you dont required the additional logic used for checking file name etc in below example as you need all files). Also make
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2. Once you get the data onto a single table, use below to get it exported to multiple sheets within same excel destination file
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Get the Excel file creatoin Date through For Each Loop each excel file in SSIS

I had For Each Loop
in Collection Path had 2 files it had Creation date of 25/01/2014
So I want Update in Table that date as File_Receive_Date column
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The easiest approach is https://filepropertiestask.codeplex.com/ can capture the file creation date, but it is not working for all SSIS versions
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You need to split your data and create (at least 5) worksheet targets.
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ROW_NUMBER % 5 == 0 for Case 1 (excel 1)
ROW_NUMBER % 5 == 1 for Case 2 (excel 2)
ROW_NUMBER % 5 == 2 for Case 3 (excel 3)
ROW_NUMBER % 5 == 3 for Case 4 (excel 4)
ROW_NUMBER % 5 == 4 for Case 5 (excel 5)

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Error
[Load data from excel file [1]] Error: SSIS Error Code DTS_E_CANNOTACQUIRECONNECTIONFROMCONNECTIONMANAGER. The AcquireConnection method call to the connection manager "Excel Connection Manager" failed with error code 0xC0202009. There
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My machine has 32 bit excel hence have set property to RUN64BITRUNTIME AS FALSE.
But the error still occurs .
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Thats my connection string
Provider=Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0;Data Source=E:\SrcData\Feeds\Utilization.xlsx;Extended Properties="Excel 12.0;HDR=NO";
Excel 2010 installed and its 32 bit edition
Are you referring to install this component -AccessDatabaseEngine_x64.exe?
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=13255
Mudassar
You can try an OLEDB provider in that case
see
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How to make SSIS Read an Excel File?

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Type.Missing, // TextCodepage
Type.Missing, // TextVisualLayout
false // Local
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GC.Collect();
System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.FinalReleaseComObject(ExcelWorkSheets);
System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.FinalReleaseComObject(ExcelWorkBook);
System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.FinalReleaseComObject(ExcelApp);
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catch (Exception exc)
Console.WriteLine(exc.ToString());
Console.ReadLine();
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/// <summary>
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/// result of the script.
/// This code was generated automatically.
/// </summary>
enum ScriptResults
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Failure = Microsoft.SqlServer.Dts.Runtime.DTSExecResult.Failure
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I would prefer doing this using a standard data flow task component in SSIS. I will choose an Excel source and a flat file destination for this.
See how you can handle the inconsistent/embedded delimiters within files inside SSIS data flow
http://visakhm.blogspot.in/2014/06/ssis-tips-handling-embedded-text.html
http://visakhm.blogspot.in/2014/07/ssis-tips-handling-inconsistent-text.html
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Hi Ved_Prakash,
The error is generic and can occur due to various causes. In order to troubleshoot this issue, I need to clarify some information:
Could you please post some sample data for that column in the error message?
Have you modify some properties after accessing data from that Excel file?
Since the error message is incomplete, could you post other error messages from the Output pane？
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