Is there a way to write data to an excel spreadsheet after skipping x number of rows...excel is my destination and a sql query would be my source?
My scenario is one where i have a lot of header rows that i need to skip before data insertion. I would like to do this in an SSIS package. I am using SQL 2008 and Excel 2010.
Thanks
if you right click on the excel connection manager at the bottom of the page than click options , there is a setting called FirstRowHasColumnName set it to FALSE .let me know if it helps , didn't really understand if you just want to skip the first row that is the name of the columns from SQL query or more , there are other ways
Easiest way would be to modify your SQL query to exclude the header rows. If you can't do that then you need some logic to determine if the row is a header row (like checking if a certain field is a number):
If you can do that then you can do this:
read all columns in as text
Put in a derived column where you generate a new column IsHeader using your logic
Use Conditional Output to filter out the rows where your IsHeader is true
Use Data Conversion or Derived column to convert the columns to correct datatype
Output to Excel as usual
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I'm trying to TextJoin in Access, I was able to complete this in Excel for a entire row by using the below formula:
=TEXTJOIN("",TRUE,F2:F251)
How do I replicate this in Access?
MS Access uses a completely different paradigm to Excel. There is no way of doing this without handcrafting it in VBA code.
Loop through the recordset rows and concatenate the column values to a variable. You can't really rely on the column order being correct in a for/next loop so you might have to refer to the columns by name.
I am using a SSIS Data Flow Task to transfer data from one table to another. Column A in Table A contains a number, the last 3 digits of which I want to store in Column B of Table B.
First I'm trying to grab all of the data in Column A and store in a variable via a simple SELECT statement SELECT COLUMN_A FROM TABLE_A. However, the variable stores the statement as a string when I want the result set of the query. I have set the EvaluateAsExpression property to False but to no avail.
Secondly I want to be able to use the result of this query in the Derived Column of my Data Flow to extract the last 3 digits and store the values in Column_B in the destination. The expression I have is:
(DT_STR,3,1252)RIGHT(#User::[VariableName],3)
I want to store this as a string hence the (DT_STR,3,1252) data type.
All I'm getting so far in Column_B of Table_B is is the last 3 characters of the SELECT statement "E_A". There is a lot of useful information on the web including YouTube videos for things like setting file paths and server names as parameters or variables but I can't see many relevant to the specifics of my query.
I have used an Execute SQL Task to insert row counts from flat files but, in this example, I want to use the Derived Column tool instead.
What am i doing wrong? Any help is gratefully appreciated.
I prefer to do all the work in SQL if you aren't doing anything else with that number.
select right(cast(ColA as varchar(20)),3) from tableA
-- you can add another cast if you want it to be an int
use that in an execute sql to result set = single row.
Map that to a variable.
In a derived column in data flow you can set that variable to the new column.
Thanks KeithL thats one solution I will use in future but I found another.
I dropped the variable and in the Expression box of the Transformation Editor did:
(DT_STR,3,1252)RIGHT((DT_STR,3,1252)Column_A,3).
In my question, I failed to cast Column_A from Table_A as a string. The first use of (DT_STR,3,1252) simply sets the destination column as a string so as not to use the same data type as the source which in my case was int.
Its the 2nd use of (DT_STR,3,1252) that actually casts Column_A from int to a string.
There is a table with 5000 records ,I need to split it into 10 excel files with names
Jan_DEpt_Records.xlsx,Feb_Deptname_Records.xlsx etc.How to achieve this with ssis.
Here "Dept" part of the excel name would come from the source table dept column.
It has been understood the use of for each loop and dataflow task inside foreachloop.
You should use conditional splits and in that you can right the cases for the number of records and than pass it to your excels just replace derived columns with the sample excel.insert indentity column on basis of that you can differentiate :
I have an Excel sheet (input) where each row needs to be saved in one of three SQL server tables based on the Record type (column 1) of the row.
Example:
If the Record type is EMP, the whole row should go to the Employee table.
If the Record type is CUS, the whole row should go to the Customer table
I am trying to use a multicast and not sure how to split the data from multicast to the destination table. Do I need any other control in between?
Any idea would be appreciated.
A Conditional Split Component sounds like just want you need. A Conditional Split uses expressions you define to route each input row to one output. In your case, your Conditional Split would define three outputs, each of which would be attached to a SQL destination.
In comparison, the Multicast Component you're currently using sends each input row to all outputs. This component would be useful if you were trying to save a copy of each row to all three SQL destinations.
I have two excel source 1st is giving me date value and 2nd is giving me price value from excel sheet.
Now i need to insert these two values into one table please tell me how can i do this?
I have used merge join but it is giving me error input must be sorted that i can't as it excel file.
Well personally, I would put each Excel file into it's own staging table. Then I would use a SQL query that joins the two tables as the source for my insert to the production tables.
After you get the input from each source, you have to sort it prior to merging it.
You can sort the input from an Excel source, from any source, because the sort is performed with the data on memory. Its an element in the Toolbar.
Check this:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms137653.aspx
I'm pretty sure you can define a sort on an excel