I have a CSV file that I exported myself out of SFDC. It has about 60k records. 3 columns are numbers, 1 is a date, & the other dozen or so are Text.
In SSMS or SSIS, when I attempt to import the file to a table - the importer errors out on the same row of data each time "15421" with the error message:
The data conversion for column XXXX returned status value 4 and status text "Text was truncated or one or more characters had no match in the target code page."
The error is pointing to one of the Text columns. When I look at the data in the table to see what imported, the data ends exactly that that row and column - the column is empty. The contents of the column is 2 characters.
My first attempt was to use DT_STR (255), resulting in the error. If I switch to as DT_WSTR (1024) or even DT_NTEXT - the job runs and reports success, but it ends exactly that row and doesn't import the rest of the 45k records - as if something in that row (and in that column?) is indicating the file is finished at that point.
I looked at that file with Notepad ++ and Sublime Text Gremlins, and Sublime Text Hex editor - I can't see anything abnormal in the data or the text qualifying quotation marks, or the comma delimiters... Thoughts? TIA!
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I downloaded the flat file from the FDA official site. The file is NDC Database File - Text Version (Zip Format).
I unzipped it and got product.txt.
I tried to import it into my database using SSIS.
All columns were varchar(max).
SSIS failed with the error message:
[Flat File Source 2] Error:
Data conversion failed. The data conversion for column "PHARM_CLASSES" returned status value 4 and status text "Text was truncated or one or more characters had no match in the target code page.".
I have no solution and need help please.
I was simulated your process, so the problem is that for some reason the "Flat File Connection Manager" recognize the "columns width" as 50 for all the columns(the actual size is more than that),
and you have more than one "problematic column" like (LABELERNAME, SUBSTANCENAME, etc.)
So for each such column change the "columns width" to 3000 and it will work for you.
If you want to be more specific you can open the file on excel and find the MAX LEN per column and then change the "columns width" respectively.
varchar max can hold around 8000 characters, so you can go with increasing output column width.
You also need to be extra conscious about field tyes very specific dates and try to pass it NULL in case it is not available in source data.
In SSIS, I'm starting with a SQL Source (a table). It has 3 columns, including a varbinary column ("FileBlob") that comes from a filestream (this shows up as type DT_IMAGE in SSIS).
In the first data flow component, I convert the varbinary column to DT_TEXT, and output the result to a flat file. This works.
In the next step, I read in the flat file I just created, attempting to convert the DT_TEXT column back to DT_IMAGE.
I get this error:
The conversion returned status value 4 and status text "Text was truncated or one or more characters had no match in the target code page.
I'm assuming there's a way to do a round-trip conversion of the binary data to text, and then back to binary. Just not sure what I'm missing. Thanks.
I have a .csv flat file which I am trying to import using flat file source in a data flow. I am getting truncation errors which do not seem possible. As far as I can tell the specified column lengths are more than enough for all of the data.
For instance, the error I am currently looking at is:
[FF_SRC Unicode File [237]] Error: Data conversion failed. The data conversion for column ""MIC"" returned status value 4 and status text "Text was truncated or one or more characters had no match in the target code page.".
and
[FF_SRC Unicode File [237]] Error: An error occurred while processing file "C:[file path]" on data row 14.
The entry for column MIC in data row 14 is "varuna". The column MIC is set to length 100 in the connection manager and the external and output columns of the flat file source.
I have verified that the column widths specified in SSIS are more than enough for all of the incoming data. I opened the .csv in excel and got the max length for each column and rounded it up. I verified that excel did not change the data (there was one column for which it did and I have accounted for that).
I verified these values in the advanced tab of the connection manager and the "input and output properties" of the flat file source component for external and output columns.
When I run the package, it will fail due to a truncation error. It tells me the column. I verify that length specified is more than enough for that column, but then increase it anyway. When I run it again it will pass the particular value that caused the error (the one I just "fixed") but fail a few values later. There is no particular column or row causing the issue.
I even set the length to 100 for every column expect one, which should be way more than enough. (The one exception column is set to length 400 because it's values are usually 200-300 characters. This column has never caused me an issue). The longest value in the file outside of the 400 character column is 42 characters.
Edit: After setting the column lengths to 1000 the package runs successfully. I still can't explain why 1000 would work when 100 did not, both of them should be more than double what is necessary. I don't consider this a solution because I would rather not waste that memory.
i'd like to ask a question that's been bothering me for some days now.
I have a mysql db with one table concisted of 38 cells.
Among those cells 2 of them are expecting greek text in them (FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME).
The table and each cell are formatted in utf8-general-ci
Cause the table will be filled with thousand of rows every month, i have a selected to populate it by incerting a csv file created in excel (csv file with commas).
The problem is that it won't allow the greek text to populate those 2 cells, returning the following answer:
1366 - Incorrect string value: '\xCC\xC1\xCC\xC1\xD3' for column 'lastname' at row 1
Does anyone have any suggestion on what to do????
In phpMyAdmin when you choose a table then Import you will se an option like "Charset file" (in greek version of phpMyAdmin it is "Σύνολο χαρακτήρων του αρχείου") you must select utf-8.
If it doesnt work then check your csv file if the greek characters is fine or not then you must check the exporting method.
I am getting this error when trying to execute the SSIS package.
[Flat File Destination [22]] Error: Data conversion failed. The data
conversion for column "DC" returned status value 4 and status text
"Text was truncated or one or more characters had no match in the
target code page.".
The column is of size 10 and I want that to be 4 in output, I had that set in my flat file but is not working.
Please advise where I am going wrong.
Regards
V.
If you don't want to mess with the Flat File properties, you could trim the value in your data source. IE SELECT SUBSTRING(Column,1,4) AS Column FROM Table.
SSIS Error: Data conversion failed. The data conversion for column “”RECIPIENT”” returned status value 4 and status text “Text was truncated or one or more characters had no match in the target code page.
Answer:-
(1) Just Right Click on Connection string for your Flat file source and got advanced column and find "RECIPIENT" Column properties update Column size with actual size like from 50 to 100.
(2) Right Click on Flat File Source and choose “Show Advanced Editor”
Go to “Input and Output Properties “ Tab
Expand “Flat File Source Output” and choose “External Columns”
(3) Select column that is causing this error (In my case column is “RECIPIENT” as per above error message) and on right hand side, increase length say 100 or 200 or depending on your column length
(4) Now select “Output Columns” and select same column as above and make this value same as we did in Step 4, in my case its 200 as shown below.
(5) Run It works.