SQL Server Source and Flat File Target in OWB

Hello All,
I have a question, is it possible to have SQL Server as Source and Flat File as Target without using any intermediate Oracle table(s).
like
SQL Server --> ETL Operators --> Flat file?
as i m getting errors in data type conversions here. but if i replace flat file with Oracle table it works fine. (though i have used some conversion functions for data types as well in Flat file loading but it is giving me errors)
Thanks in advance.
Tayyeb

Yes this should be fine. Are you using the gateway to access SQLServer or code template mappings? You need to track which columns are throwing the data type conversion errors.
Cheers
David

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How to convert from SQL Server table to Flat file (txt file)

I need To ask question how convert from SQL Server table to Flat file txt file

Hi
1. Import/Export wizened
2. Bcp utility
3. SSIS
1.Import/Export Wizard
First and very manual technique is the import wizard. This is great for ad-hoc and just to slam it in tasks.
In SSMS right click the database you want to import into. Scroll to Tasks and select Import Data…
For the data source we want out zips.txt file. Browse for it and select it. You should notice the wizard tries to fill in the blanks for you. One key thing here with this file I picked is there are “ “ qualifiers. So we need to make
sure we add “ into the text qualifier field. The wizard will not do this for you.
Go through the remaining pages to view everything. No further changes should be needed though
Hit next after checking the pages out and select your destination. This in our case will be DBA.dbo.zips.
Following the destination step, go into the edit mappings section to ensure we look good on the types and counts.
Hit next and then finish. Once completed you will see the count of rows transferred and the success or failure rate
Import wizard completed and you have the data!
bcp utility
Method two is bcp with a format file http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms162802.aspx
This is probably going to win for speed on most occasions but is limited to the formatting of the file being imported. For this file it actually works well with a small format file to show the contents and mappings to SQL Server.
To create a format file all we really need is the type and the count of columns for the most basic files. In our case the qualifier makes it a bit difficult but there is a trick to ignoring them. The trick is to basically throw a field into the
format file that will reference it but basically ignore it in the import process.
Given that our format file in this case would appear like this
9.0
9
1 SQLCHAR 0 0 """ 0 dummy1 ""
2 SQLCHAR 0 50 "","" 1 Field1 ""
3 SQLCHAR 0 50 "","" 2 Field2 ""
4 SQLCHAR 0 50 "","" 3 Field3 ""
5 SQLCHAR 0 50 ""," 4 Field4 ""
6 SQLCHAR 0 50 "," 5 Field5 ""
7 SQLCHAR 0 50 "," 6 Field6 ""
8 SQLCHAR 0 50 "," 7 Field7 ""
9 SQLCHAR 0 50 "n" 8 Field8 ""
The bcp call would be as follows
C:Program FilesMicrosoft SQL Server90ToolsBinn>bcp DBA..zips in “C:zips.txt” -f “c:zip_format_file.txt” -S LKFW0133 -T
Given a successful run you should see this in command prompt after executing the statement
Starting copy...
1000 rows sent to SQL Server. Total sent: 1000
1000 rows sent to SQL Server. Total sent: 2000
1000 rows sent to SQL Server. Total sent: 3000
1000 rows sent to SQL Server. Total sent: 4000
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bcp import completed!
BULK INSERT
Next, we have BULK INSERT given the same format file from bcp
CREATE TABLE zips (
Col1 nvarchar(50),
Col2 nvarchar(50),
Col3 nvarchar(50),
Col4 nvarchar(50),
Col5 nvarchar(50),
Col6 nvarchar(50),
Col7 nvarchar(50),
Col8 nvarchar(50)
GO
INSERT INTO zips
SELECT *
FROM OPENROWSET(BULK 'C:Documents and SettingstkruegerMy Documentsblogcenzuszipcodeszips.txt',
FORMATFILE='C:Documents and SettingstkruegerMy Documentsblogzip_format_file.txt'
) as t1 ;
GO
That was simple enough given the work on the format file that we already did. Bulk insert isn’t as fast as bcp but gives you some freedom from within TSQL and SSMS to add functionality to the import.
SSIS
Next is my favorite playground in SSIS
We can do many methods in SSIS to get data from point A, to point B. I’ll show you data flow task and the SSIS version of BULK INSERT
First create a new integrated services project.
Create a new flat file connection by right clicking the connection managers area. This will be used in both methods
Bulk insert
You can use format file here as well which is beneficial to moving methods around. This essentially is calling the same processes with format file usage. Drag over a bulk insert task and double click it to go into the editor.
Fill in the information starting with connection. This will populate much as the wizard did.
Example of format file usage
Or specify your own details
Execute this and again, we have some data
Data Flow method
Bring over a data flow task and double click it to go into the data flow tab.
Bring over a flat file source and SQL Server destination. Edit the flat file source to use the connection manager “The file” we already created. Connect the two once they are there
Double click the SQL Server Destination task to open the editor. Enter in the connection manager information and select the table to import into.
Go into the mappings and connect the dots per say
Typical issue of type conversions is Unicode to non-unicode.
We fix this with a Data conversion or explicit conversion in the editor. Data conversion tasks are usually the route I take. Drag over a data conversation task and place it between the connection from the flat file source to the SQL Server destination.
New look in the mappings
And after execution…
SqlBulkCopy Method
Sense we’re in the SSIS package we can use that awesome “script task” to show SlqBulkCopy. Not only fast but also handy for those really “unique” file formats we receive so often
Bring over a script task into the control flow
Double click the task and go to the script page. Click the Design script to open up the code behind
Ref.
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Urgent.. Characterset of flat file target in OWB

OWB mapping reads from the database source and writes to flat file target in unix os but junk characters are displayed for non english characters in the target file . The database table contains french,spanish,german,arabic characters.The nls db parameter setting is AL32UTF8. The same setting has been applied to OWB target by editing flat file defintion also but still junk values are appearing for non english characterset.different charactersets like al32utf8,utf8,utf18,us7ascii have been tried at owb target setting but nothing is working out to remove junk characters. Please suggest

Yes this should be fine. Are you using the gateway to access SQLServer or code template mappings? You need to track which columns are throwing the data type conversion errors.
Cheers
David

ODI - Delete Level0 through Microsoft SQL Server Source?

Is it possible to use ODI to delete members through a Microsoft SQL Server Source and a Planning target? I can load the members with a MS SQL source but can't seem to get the process to work when i add an operator (no matter which one i choose Delete IDescendants or Delete level0). I am able to get it to work with a file but would rather use the table to run the delete as well.

Using a relational table should be no different than using a flat file source.
I take it no errors are being generated, have you checked the SQL that is being generated in the operator, you should be able to lift it out of the step in the operator and run against sql server to see if the correct records are being returned.
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John
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OWB and MS SQL Server source (10.2)

Hi all,
After installing the Gateways for MS SQL Server, configuring and testing the Database Link sucessfully, I met some issues when trying to use this Database Link for location source.
Suppose I have a Database Link named mssql. From OWB Design Center, creates a new project. Exploring this project and select to create a new Location Module. On the Location Module Wizard, select the mssql Database Link; dbo for the SCHEMA. Finally press the Test button. Unfortunately the result test informed that "tables or views are not existed ..."
Does anyone have the same issues with me? Can you give me any solutions?
Thanks much,
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How to integrate from MS SQL SERVER 2005 and Flatfile to Oracle 10g.

Hi
I am new to ODI. I am trying to load sample data from MS SQL Server 2005 and Flatfile to Oracle 10g.
1. I have created three models.
1-1. SQL2005 (SRC_CUSTOMER table)
1-2. Flatfile (SRC_AGE_GROUP.txt & SRC_SALES_PERSON.txt)
1-3. Oracle 10g (TRG_CUSTOMER table)
You may know I got those environments from the ODI DEMO environment.
2. I could able to reverse the tables also.
3. I have created an interface which contains source table (from MSSQL 2005), Flatfile and target table from ORACLE model.
4. I have imported the knowledge modules. But I am confusing in selecting the knowledge modules to source and target tables.
I've selected LKM File to SQL for flatfile model.
I've also selected LKM SQL to SQL for MSSQL 2005 model and IKM Oracle Incremental Update for the target table (ORACLE).
I've also implemented the interface that I created. It worked without errors. But there is no data in target table which is TRG_CUSTOMER.
I really would like to know what happened and what the problems are.
You can email me [email protected]
Thanks in advance
Jason Lee

what did give for SRC_AGE_GROUP SRC_CUSTOMER join condition
if it is
(SRC_CUSTOMER.AGE=SRC_AGE_GROUP.AGE_MIN) AND SRC_CUSTOMER.AGE=SRC_AGE_GROUP.AGE_MAX
give it as
(SRC_CUSTOMER.AGE>SRC_AGE_GROUP.AGE_MIN) AND SRC_CUSTOMER.AGE<SRC_AGE_GROUP.AGE_MAX

CLR to get the SQL Server Data into .CSV File

Hi,
I transformed 10 columns 1000 rows from the source table to 1 column 1000 rows in the destination table by making the comma separated columns ( Just like ..
Insert into DestinationTable
SELECT col1+','+col2 ....
FROM SourceTable
Then I want to take this column into CSV file.
I dont have the rights to command shell.
I heard that we may use CLR procedure for this. Can someone throw light?

using System;
using System.IOM
using System.Data;
using System.Data.SqlClient;
using System.Data.SqlTypes;
using Microsoft.SqlServer.Server;
public class ExportFileClass {
[Microsoft.SqlServer.Server.SqlProcedure]
public static void export_file()
using (SqlConnection connection = new SqlConnection(
"context connection=true"))
connection.Open();
// Operation to open file goes here.
SqlCommand command = new SqlCommand("SELECT col FROM YourTable");
// Consume result set and write rows.
Build this from the command line:
sn -k keypair.snk
csc /target:library /keyfile:keypair.snk exportfile.cs
Then run in SQL Server (assuming that the files are in C:\temp on the SQL
Server machine:
[sql]
USE master
go
-- To be able to create an external-access assembly, we need to load
-- the key, the assembly is signed with. The key needs a password, but we
-- don't need to know the password.
DECLARE @sql nvarchar(MAX),
@password char(40)
SELECT @password = convert(char(36), newid()) + 'Ab4?'
SELECT @sql = 'CREATE ASYMMETRIC KEY slog_loopback FROM FILE = ' +
'''C:\temp\keypair.snk'' ' +
'ENCRYPTION BY PASSWORD = ''' + @password + ''''
PRINT @sql
EXEC(@sql)
-- And then a login to carry the permission.
CREATE LOGIN exportfile$asymkey FROM ASYMMETRIC KEY ExportFile
GRANT EXTERNAL ACCESS ASSEMBLY TO exportfile$asymkey
go
-- Now we can go back to our regular database and create the assembly.
USE youddatabase
go
CREATE ASSEMBLY ExportFile FROM 'C:\temp\exportfile.dll'
WITH PERMISSION_SET = EXTERNAL_ACCESS
go
CREATE PROCEDURE ExportFile AS
EXTERNAL NAME ExportFile.ExportFileClass.export_file
[sql]
It is likely that you will have to do ask your DBA to do things in the
master database.
Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, [email protected]

Update/Insert mode couldn't apply to SQL Server source via Transparent Gateway.

Hi all,
OWB version is 9.0.2.56,database version is 9i Release 2.
When set load type to "Insert",mapping works fine from SQL Server to Oracle table,via Transparent Gateway 901.
But "Update/Insert" always runs error with "Fatal error or maximum number of errors exceeded".while I define both source and destination table to oracle tables in mapping,"Update/Insert" works file.
Any suggestion?

Hi Ignor,
Thanks for your reply!
The SQL Server version is SQL Server 2000.
I just want to ETL data from a SQL Server table via Transparent gateway into oracle table,the source table has a increment seq field,so I want to define mapping using update/insert loading method in OWB,according to this seq field,if there is the same seq in the target table,do update,if not,insert the row.I just find out that if I use a middle table in oracle to do truncate/insert mode from SQL Server source table,then do update/insert mode from the middle one to target table,it works.But can't do directly from source to target using update/insert mode.Does this means update/insert mode only apply to mapping from local table to local table?
Regards,
Robbin

Connect SQL server source from OWB

Hi,
I have to connect to SQL Server source from OWB.
I am using OWB 10.2 version and Owb is installed on UNIX platform.
I have created system DSN, made respective entries in hs/admin and edited listener.ora file.
In OWB Non-Oracle sorces trying to connect with ODBC connection to SQL server source.
It is throwing erorr 'ORA-28545:error diagonised by Net8 agent when connecting to an agent Unable to retrieve text of NETWORK/NCR message 65535
ORA-02063: preceding 2 lines from OWB-2339'
How to check System DSN is setup properly on UNIX or not.
Could anyone help out on this.

Hi David,
I have created db link and queried with select statement.
It has thrown following error.
" ORA-12537: TNS:connection closed".
And, I don't know how to use "trace level gateway service configuration property in the service .ora file".
I want to start from the first.
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If I manually run the stored procedure (when logged in as the OS’s administrator), the stored procedure runs fine, and the export is completed successfully.
The stored procedure is set up to be run periodically by a SQL Server Agent job.
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I’ve applied the following configuration settings to SQL Server:
sp_configure 'show advanced options', 1;
RECONFIGURE;
GO
sp_configure 'Ad Hoc Distributed Queries', 1;
RECONFIGURE;
GO
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GO
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What am I missing? Can anyone shed any light on what might be causing the failure?
This is running on SQL Server Web Edition 2012 on Windows Server 2012 Standard.
Thanks!

Hi JonathanT1,
First, I want to inform that, if SQL Server Agent log on account is “NT SERVICE\SQLSERVERAGENT”, we need to grant read and write permission to the destination folder to this account (you have done). From the following message:
Executed as user: NT SERVICE\SQLSERVERAGENT
It seems that you filled “NT SERVICE\SQLSERVERAGENT” in job step properties, “Run as user” option. I suggest changing it to another account who is in SQLAgentUserRole, SQLAgentReaderRole or SQLAgentOperatorRole. For more detail information, you can refer
to the following link:
Create a Transact-SQL Job Step
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms187910.aspx
SQL Server Agent Fixed Database Roles
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms188283.aspx
Allen Li
TechNet Community Support

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Microsoft Corporation 2/10/2014
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Microsoft Corporation 2/10/2014
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Microsoft Corporation 2/10/2014
Microsoft SQL Server 2012 T-SQL Language ...
Microsoft Corporation 2/10/2014
Microsoft SQL Server Compact 3.5 Design T...
Microsoft Corporation   2/14/2008
Microsoft SQL Server Compact 3.5 SP2 ENU
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Microsoft SQL Server Compact 4.0SP1 ENU
Microsoft Corporation   9/21/2012
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Microsoft SQL Se1Ver System CLR Types
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Microsoft SQL Server VSS Writer
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Hello,
Please read the following resources:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms233763.aspx
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20333518/how-to-create-a-database-in-ms-visual-studio-2013
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/bb643825.aspx
Hope this helps.
Regards,
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GO
WAITFOR DELAY '00:08';
Now, I find within SQL Server Agent the Job '6FF53AED-855F-43AB-9FB7-064062B8012E' and its step command which is...
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How can I drill-down further into the @EventData 'ca4e5410-2758-4a1a-9b06-513821e0d962' to see what it does? I do not see 'ca4e5410-2758-4a1a-9b06-513821e0d962' within SQL Server Agent and Jobs or am I way off base here as to what exactly the @EventData
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Thanks for your review and am hopeful for a reply.

Hi ITBobbyP,
According to your description, you need to know the what does SQL Server Reporting Services do when fire a subscription, right?
When you create a subscription several things are added to the RS server
A row is placed in the Subscriptions table identifying the name of the report, along with parameter settings, data driven query info and so on to process the subscription
A row is placed in the Schedule and ReportSchedule tables with the timing of the subscription
A SQL Server Agent job is created to control the scheduled execution of the report, and this is stored in the sysjobs and sysjobsteps of the MSDB database.
When the subscription runs several things happen
The SQL Server Agent job fires and puts a row in the Event table in the RS catalog with the settings necessary to process the subscription
The RS server service has a limited number of threads (2 per CPU) that poll the Event table every few seconds looking for subscriptions to process
When it finds an event, it puts a row in the Notifications table and starts processing the subscription
Please refer to the links below to see the details.
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/deanka/archive/2009/01/13/diagnosing-and-troubleshooting-subscriptions.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/deanka/archive/2010/02/16/troubleshooting-subscriptions-part-ii-using-the-report-services-trace-log-file.aspx
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TechNet Community Support

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