I have SSIS Package which will load .EXT file into my Database table.
The package Flat File connection manager Editor properties are
Format: Ragged Right
Code Page: 1252 ANSI (Latin-I)
Text Qualifier: <None>
Header Row Delimiter: <LF>
While trying to preview the file before loading, i am able to see all the rows in columns and
preview tab of Flat File connection manager Editor.
But in actual loading of the file, last record alone is not getting imported into table.
It was loading fine and still it is processing the file on daily basis.
Only for two days file, it was not imported last records. I am trying to find the root cause.
I suspected something wrong with the file, but i do not find any differences between the
working and not-working version of files.
Please suggest us to resolve the same. Kindly let me know if any informations required.
I ran into the same issue and did some research to find a solution that worked from me. Apparently the SSIS package had gone through a conversion from an earlier version at one point. When the conversion was done, the text qualifier property on the flat file connection was mangled. It had originally been <none>, but the conversion changed it to _x003C_none_x003E_. I opened the flat file connection manager and changed the text qualifier property on the general tab back to the proper value of <none>.
Credit goes to this thread for providing the answer.
I had a similar issue. My flat file didn't had any text qualifiers. When i added a text qualifier the package ran successfully. My guess is that the file is read as text and the CRLF is not recognized at the last line.
If you can provide a sample of the data from the file
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Many questions have been asked on this topic, but I can't find anything specifically addressing what I see in Visual Studio 2017 (SSDT). A Custom Property named "EscapeQualifier" exists for a flat-file destination component in an SSIS project. Unfortunately, setting this to true doesn't seem to do anything.
Searching official documentation from MS doesn't even show the property existed.
On the surface, using this option seems to be a very elegant solution to the common issue of creating a "real" CSV file when the data being exported contains the double-quote character. If it worked as it seems it should, then it would double any double-quotes (or similarly escape whatever character you defined as your text-qualifier) for all quotable fields in the destination.
The solutions for "the CSV problem" that I've been able to find suggest modifying the specific data via transforms or at the data-retrieval level, but that's very impractical to do on each and every text-qualified data column.
To add insult to injury, I found a KB article from MS that suggests "exporting to CSV" is an official thing in SSDT.
KB4135137 - SSMS and SSDT do not escape double quotation marks when you export data as CSV
For example, you export a table into CSV format in a SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) project.
This article suggests that the double-quotes not being escaped are a bug that has been fixed. Maybe it has, but only for the "Save results as..." option within SSMS. I still don't see any possible way to specify a true CSV export in an SSIS package, and this "EscapeQualifier" option gave me false hope.
Does this "EscapeQualifier" option ever do anything? If so, how do I get it to work? If not, is there another universal solution to the SSIS export to CSV issue?
Note: I created a pull request to add information about this property to Microsoft Docs.
As mentioned in the Flat File Destination properties, the EscapeQualifier property is used to:
When text qualifier is enabled, specifies whether the text qualifier in the data written to the destination file will be escaped or not
To test this property, I created a package the transfer data from a flat file to another one.
In the source flat file connection manager, the Text Qualifier is set to <none>, while in the destination flat file connection manager the text qualifier is set to ". The source flat file only contains the following value: my name is "hadi".
Is set the EscapeQualifier property as True in the flat file destination and execute the package. As shown in the screenshot below, the destination file contains the following value: "My name is ""hadi""" which means that this property worked as excepted.
Make sure that you have set a text qualifier in the flat file connection manager to ensure that this property will work as excepted.
I'm trying to link to a text file from the Access Link Text Wizard (as I've successfully done hundreds of times before) but this time I'm getting an error stating
Syntax error in PARAMETER clause.
No parameterized query is being used so I'm at a bit of a loss, I'm only trying to link to a text file.
In Access 2016 I go to the External Data tab and click Text File. I browse to my tab-delimited text file and select the Link to the data source creating a linked table option. As soon as I click OK it gives me the error above.
My text file is very simple with 2 columns and about 100 rows of data. This file is created from a Stored Procedure in SQL Server 2016 using BCP. If I manually create a text file with test data using the same format I don't get the error, which leads me to believe it may be some data in the file causing the error? I can't figure out how to attach text files to my question so any suggestions are welcome.
EDIT: I copied all data from the offending file into a new text file and it linked properly so it's not the data. I am often creating text files from a SQL Server Stored Procedure then linking to it from Access. This is the first time I've experienced this particular error.
EDIT2: I recreated a text file manually with the same data from the offending file and named it the same this time (Procedure Class Listing.txt) and I got the error. Is something wrong with this title???
EDIT3: Sorry for so many edits. I tried naming the file without the spaces and it links properly. I have linked to files with spaces in the name before so I don't understand.
FINAL EDIT: So it appears that a text file starting with the word "Procedure" followed by a space is giving me this error. I can remove all spaces (ProcedureClassListing.txt) and it works fine (which is the solution I'm going with).
So it appears that a file starting with the word "Procedure" followed by a space is giving me this error. I can remove all spaces (ProcedureClassListing.txt) and it works fine (which is the solution I'm going with).
I need to read data from a fixed width txt file which will be put on the server and write that data to a SQL table through SSIS package.
The problem is that when I open the txt file in notepad, the data seems to be unformatted (first row seems distorted even after wordwrap):
Screenshot of original file:
But when I copy the data from notepad, paste it in wordpad, the data seems perfectly formatted. So, when I save this wordpad data as .txt and use it in my SSIS package, the package runs perfectly. But when I use the original file as shown in the screenshot above, the SSIS is unable to read it.
Screenshot of formatted file:
I am a beginner in SSIS and stuck on this issue since many days. Any kind of help would be much appreciated.
When I open my flat file connection manager, I see a warning message:
Columns are not defined for this connection manager
How do I solve this issue, or is it even something I need to worry about?
Click "Columns" in the pane on the left and define the columns of your flat file.
I am doing an "online" course and during the steps of importing a flat file I also encountered it. I could not get it to work initially. Then I aborted the import and tried again and used the " as text qualifier (even though the columns in the file are separated). It worked and I could see the correct columns in preview.
I know this might sound dumb but in my case, I accidently saved the file as xlsb instead of csv. Saving the file as the correct file type resolved issue.
I'm going to be getting a new computer soon and I don't want to lose all of the data I have entered in my tables, so I decided to test out the feature that allows you to export and import CSV files. I exported a table successfully (data was transferred to Microsoft Excel in CSV file), but when I opened the file in Microsoft Excel and added a few rows and tried to import it back in to MySQL Workbench, I got the following error:
"Error importing recordset
error calling Python module function
SQLIDEUtils.importRecordsetDataFromFile"
I've searched all over for info on this, but can't find any solutions. Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong?
In Workbench, open a MySQL connection and then navigate to [Server] --> [Data Export]. There are several backup options here, including saving the data as an individual file or folder. Choose the databases you want to export, and then click [Start Export].
If you ever prefer using Excel for editing and such, then use the MySQL for Excel plugin to access MySQL databases from within Excel. However, I don't think you need it here.
To export your mySQL data, use mysqldump, which will create all the schema for you.
Excel probably added some stuff to your file and now mySQL can't understand it. The best way to find out is by comparing the files before and after the change.
That error indicates a format problem. If the file is small enough, try opening it in wordpad (or the mac equivalent) and see if there's any difference in the formatting? Could be that the delimiting got a little messed up (this can happen especially with end of row markers in MySQL, I've noticed, it can also happen in mac to pc handoffs). If all else fails you could try exporting using a different format and see if that makes a difference (maybe tsv) when you add new rows.
Another reason can be the line endings used. Depending on the system and editor used to work with the cvs file it the line endings might get changed. For me mysql supported UNIX line endings. And in the editor the line ending had been set to MAC OS 9 since I was using a MAC.
Changing it to UNIX line ending worked.
I found that it might be due to a wrong encoding of the input file.
Using Notepad++ for example (or another similar editor) you need to change file encoding to UTF-8.