Hi all quick question for you.
I have an SSIS2012 package that is reading a flat file (.csv) and is loading it into a SQL Server database table. However, I am getting an error for one of the columns when loading the OLEDB Destination:
[Flat File Source [32]] Error: Data conversion failed. The data conversion for column "Active_Flag" returned status value 2 and status text "The value could not be converted because of a potential loss of data.".
I am wondering if this is because in the flat file (which is comma delimited), the values are literally spelled out "TRUE" or "FALSE". The advanced page on the flat file properties has it set to "DT_BOOL" which I thought was right. It was on DT_STRING originally, and that wasn't working either.
In the SQL server table the column is set up as a bit, and allows nulls. Is this because it is literally typed out TRUE/FALSE? What's the easiest way to fix this?
Thanks for any advice!
It actually turned out there was a blank space in front of "True"/"False" in the file. Was just bad data and I missed it. Fixing that solved my issue. Thank you though, I did try that and when that didn't work that's when I knew it was something else.
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I have the following problem:
I have an SSIS package that starts with a query executed at an Oracle DB and I would like to export a Fixed Width flat file with ANSI 1253 Code Page. I get an error:
The data conversion for column [column_name] returned status value 4
and status text "Text was truncated or one or more characters had no
match in the target code page"
The problem has to do with the second part of the message, as the width is ok. I tried to use Data Conversion from Toolbox but it didn't work (probably I didn't use it on the right way). I have only select privileges to the database so I cannot add any sql procedures to remove special characters at the query. Also the idea to load data to a staging table wouldn't be the best choice at my case. Does anyone has any idea on how to convert my data without getting this error?
Thanks a lot in advance
Load data using your Source from Oracle DB and keep the data types they are giving you.
add a derived column and cast your column.
(DT_STR,[Insert Length],1252) [columnName]
if the column is ntext you need to do 2 steps to get to string.
(DT_STR...) (DT_WSTR) Ntextcolumn
I am reading data from a flat file and storing them in a OLE DB destination.
In the flat file, dates and in various formats
17/02/2014,
28-Apr-14,
30.06.14
I have used a Derived column transformation to check for empty columns and replace it with null. As far as I have seen SSIS and data base accepts 17/02/2014 format and 28-Apr-14, 30.06.14 are rejected.
I want to convert 28-Apr-14 and 30.06.14 to a valid format which DB accepts.
I have researched a bit and read that Script task can do it but I am not sure of the code how to check this.
Could you please guide which is the best way to do this.
Any suggestions/help is much appreciated.
Thanks
Rao
Check out my answer on the following question. This should work for you as well.
SSIS clean up date from csv file
In my csv file i am having decimal number. I am trying to insert data but the concurrent program is going to warning. In the log Error "Record 1: Rejected - Error on table HR_SAL_DATA_TMP, column CHANGE_PERCENTAGE1.
ORA-01722: invalid number". In my control file i have used DECIMAL EXTERNAL but still it is giving the same error. I would be highly obliged If any one helps me out.
I had similar problem and the reason was mismatched data types in the database. Cross-check the data types of your columns and the ones in datafile
The reason might be connected to NLS settings, try this:
CHANGE_PERCENTAGE1 "TO_NUMBER (:CHANGE_PERCENTAGE1, '999999999D9', 'NLS_NUMERIC_CHARACTERS='',.''')",
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I am importing Data from excel sheet. I am struggling with the following problems -
Executing (Error) Messages Error 0xc020901c: Data Flow Task 1: There was an error with output column "Intelligence" (21) on output "Excel
Source Output" (9). The column status returned was: "Text was
truncated or one or more characters had no match in the target code
page.". (SQL Server Import and Export Wizard)
Error 0xc020902a: Data Flow Task 1: The "output column "Intelligence" (21)" failed because truncation occurred, and the
truncation row disposition on "output column "Intelligence" (21)"
specifies failure on truncation. A truncation error occurred on the
specified object of the specified component. (SQL Server Import and
Export Wizard)
Error 0xc0047038: Data Flow Task 1: SSIS Error Code DTS_E_PRIMEOUTPUTFAILED. The PrimeOutput method on component "Source - MainSheetData$" (1) returned error code 0xC020902A. 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.
(SQL Server Import and Export Wizard)
I was banging my head against the wall with this same exact error.
Try importing into MS Access and then importing into SQL Server.
turns out it only checks first 8 rows or so of the Excel sheet..so if it decides length is 225 and later on encounters more than 225 chars an error occurs , what I did to solve the problem was make a first fake row containing the worst scenario (max of everything) and problem solved !
The first error is telling you that your source data for the Intelligence column is either longer than your target column or contains charachers that your target column cannot accept.
The second error is telling you that the Intelligence column is longer than your target column and therefore its failing. I expect this is the true issue.
You can either
expand the size of your target column to cover the larger input
or
switch the Error Output of the component to "Ignore failure" on Truncation
I was having the very same issue, and although I tried numerous suggestions from searching here, the option that worked for me was to convert the excel file to a CSV and use a bulk insert command instead.
This bypassed the need to edit mappings which wasn't working for me. I had a field that was not updating when I changed the field type.
Code below from this answer:
BULK INSERT TableName
FROM 'C:\SomeDirectory\my table.txt'
WITH
(
FIELDTERMINATOR = '\t',
ROWTERMINATOR = '\n'
)
GO
Importing using CSV is difficult as the import process doesn't know the max length for any field. Therefore when it hits a row longer than the initial column length it errors.
Simply save your csv file as a excel workbook and re import. You'll need to delete an existing tables that were created before failute last time.
As it's excel, it can obtain the correct field length when creating the table.
I was getting the same error while importing from Excel to SQL Server 2008. I was able to do it by exporting from xlsx to csv and then importing the csv file into Sql Server. Yes, I had to adjust the columns length by hand but it worked just fine!
I was having the same problem and had to manually go through Excel to find the problem. One time saver, if you click Report -> View Report at the bottom, it will open up a new window. If you scroll all the way to the bottom of the report, it will tell you how many rows were processed. It doesn't necessarily mean that the problem is in the next row, but at least you can skip going through all the rows before that.
What I did next in Excel was take only the amount of characters that would fit into SQL (i.e. LEFT([Column], 255) and truncate the rest.
It is not ideal, but it worked in my case.
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You need to change "On Error" option to Ignore and "On Truncation" option to Ignore in Review Data Type Mapping.
This will solve the problem.
I am not sure, if anyone has tried this or not:
Copy the content of the file from excel .xls or whatever excel format it is in currently and paste it into new excel file as value. Save the file in .xlsx format and try importing again with sql server.
It will be a success!!
It is enough to place the biggest length in the first row. Then it functions.
I'm using SSIS and trying to import data from Filelmaker into SQL Server. In the Solution Explorer, I right click on "SSIS Packages" and select SQL Server Import and Export Wizard". During the process, I use my DSN as the source, SQL Server as the destination, use a valid query to pull data from Filemaker, and set the mappings.
Each time I try to run the package, I receive the following message:
The "output column "LastNameFirst" (12)" has a length that is not valide. The length must be between 0 and 4000.
I do not understand this error exactly, but in the documentation for ODBC:
http://www.filemaker.com/downloads/pdf/fm9_odbc_jdbc_guide_en.pdf (page 47) it states:
"The maximum column length of text is 1 million characters, unless you specify a smaller Maximum number of characters for the text field in FileMaker. FileMaker returns empty strings as NULL."
I'm thinking that the data type is too large when trying to convert it to varchar. But even after using a query of SUBSTR(LastNameFirst, 1, 2000), I get the same error.
Any suggestions?
I had this problem, and don't know the cause but these are the steps I used to find the offending row:
-in filemaker, export the data to CSV
-open the CSV in excel
-double click on the LastNameFirst column to maximize its width
-scroll down until you see a column '#########' -the way excel indicates data that is too large to be displayed.
I'm sure theres a better way, and I'd love to hear it!
You should use this:
nvarchar (max)