I am creating my first SSIS package using Business Intelligence in Visual Studio 2012. I am adding the contents of an Excel sheet to an local VS database. In the Destination Assistant I am asked Destination Type = SQL Server, New: Provider - I see no .NET Framework option. The result seems to be that I am then unable to select my server and therefore databases.
Am I just missing the point?
I would recommend that you investigate the destination server and verify that you have the providers installed on that system. Typically these are installed at the time that SQL server is installed, but is possible via custom installation to specify the providers that are installed. It may be necessary for you to install any providers needed. A second option would be to point to a database that you know that you can connect to, say a localhost sandbox or other tried database. That would help you to determine if it's server side or client installation issues.
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I am using VS 2017 SSDT 15.9.20 to create an SSIS package. The package is originally created in Server A where SSDT is installed and the SQL server resides in Server A. So I was ale to create the package in Server A. I created a SQL job in Server A and linked directly to run the DTSX file without deploying it.
What my package does:
In server A my package will read the excel in the location C:\Users\xxx\Documents\myproj\excelfile.xls
and will create excel sheets inside C:\Users\xxx\Documents\myproj\files\ folder.
Deployment:
Now I want to deploy this package to Server B. And my package will read the excel in the location \ServerB\S:\Documents\myproj\excelfile.xls
and will create excel sheets inside \ServerB\S:\Documents\myproj\files\ folder.
My questions:
Should I deploy my project to create dtsx file? There is already a dtsx file inside my project folder. Can I not just move that file to server B and change the connection string and paths? Will it work that way?
SSIS deployent tool does not work for me from server A. It does not identify the destination servers.How can be deployment made easy? How can I change the destination paths?
Server A has both SSDT installed and SQL database resides in same server. But the target server B is a database server and does not have SSDT in it. I will schedule a job in SQL server of server B that will call my dtsx package and execute it.
I am new to SSIS. so please don't close this question and would be great if anyone can help me with these questions. Thanks!
Without knowing the version of SQL, I'll give both answers:
Should I deploy my project to create dtsx file? There is already a
dtsx file inside my project folder. Can I not just move that file to
server B and change the connection string and paths? Will it work
that way?
Versions less than SQL 2012: Copy the dtsx file from your project to the folder on the target server. Connection strings can be change in the configuration of the SQL Agent job or by using package Configurations:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/integration-services/lesson-5-add-ssis-package-configurations-for-the-package-deployment-model?view=sql-server-ver15
Versions greater SQL 2012: Create the ssis catalog on the target servers:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/integration-services/create-the-ssis-catalog?view=sql-server-2014.
Right click on the project and use the wizard to deploy to the target server. Connection strings can be modified in SQL Agent as noted above, or you can use parameters:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/integration-services/lesson-6-using-parameters-with-the-project-deployment-model-in-ssis?view=sql-server-ver15
The latter my seem like more work at first, but there is a myriad of benefits and it is the preferred way of doing things
SSIS deployent tool does not work for me from server A. It does not
identify the destination servers.How can be deployment made easy?
How can I change the destination paths?
Follow either deployment method noted above. Package deployment (copy files to a folder) still works in later versions, but it is less easy to manage and less things done for you like securing configurations and setting up logging.
Server A has both SSDT installed and SQL database resides in same
server. But the target server B is a database server and does not
have SSDT in it. I will schedule a job in SQL server of server B
that will call my dtsx package and execute it.
SSDT has no bearing on SSIS, but Integration Services does. SSDT is a developer tool and really should only be installed on developers machines for the purpose of creating packages and testing. It is better to not have this on the server because it encourages development to happen there and for devs to logon to the server like it's their laptop. Integration Services is a service that comes with SQL Server and is used for executing packages. You'll need to add this service to the instance if you want to execute packages from SQL Agent. This link explains that and gives guidance on installing SSDT locally:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/integration-services/install-windows/install-integration-services?view=sql-server-ver15
I have a question regarding to SSIS. I designed a package and it worked fine when I executed in my local machine. I used to extract the data from Teradata and load into SQL SERVER 2008. Everything was fine but I'm looking for how to execute the package without my local machine. I mean how to configure and set up the odbc in the SSIS server machine, not my local machine.
Thank you,
Paul
You'll need to make sure you've installed SQL Server Integration Services on the box; then there's a number of ways to go about running it. From there, I prefer to connect to Integration Services from the Object Explorer in SSMS and import packages, using the "SQL Server" as the Package Location. Once the Integration Services on the box has an entry for the package, you'll be able to run it with the agent by specifying a step type of "SQL Server Integration Services Package." I don't think you will need to set up the ODBC on the server itself if you have it configured correctly in your package, but if you do that should be no different than the way you have it set up on your own box.
I'm running into this issue basically:
Can I deploy & Use SSIS SQL server DTS DLL's onto a machine that does not have SQL server 2008 installed?
Since it's been answered I don't know if my request for further information will get any traction.
I'm running into the same problem I think. When I deploy locally on my dev box, my application calling SSIS works fine. When I deploy my application on Server A, and my SSIS package on Server B (my database server), I get the error mentioned in the post: " An Integration Services class cannot be found. Make sure that Integration Services is correctly installed on the computer that is running the application. Also, make sure that the 64-bit version of Integration Services is installed if you are running a 64-bit application".
If I understand things correctly I need to have an SSIS license on my application Server and my database server?
This doesn't seem to make sense. When you make a SQL call to SQL server, provided you have an enterprise license you only pay once. You don't have to pay for an extra license for your application server.
I just want to make sure I've got this clear before I go to the higher ups, and that my problem isn't stemming from something else. So to put it concisely: Do you need to have an SSIS license for both your app server and your SQL Server when calling an SSIS package remotely?
Just to clarify the 64 vs 32 bit thing: I've got 64 bit OS's running on my local machine, the app server and the database server - and all my VS projects are being built to use "Any CPU".
Sorry for the lengthy post, but I thought I should be thorough on this.
You will need to have SSIS licensed (SQL Server) on any machine that is using SSIS to execute packages.
On my development machine I have Visual Studio 2010 and SQL Server 2008 Express. On our production server we have SQL Server 2008 Standard. I am going to create a WCF service that will reside on the production SQL server that will fire my SSIS package when called.
Because I have SQL Express on my development machine, I do not have access to create SSIS packages from this machine at all. This is needed so I can write the WCF service in the first place.
So, I could simply download SQL Server 2008 Standard from our msdn subscription to my development machine, but for reasons I cannot get into, this is not immediately possible. It will be in the near future but not soon enough.
How can I get this done? Are there tools to download? Where? I have researched this at length but there appears to be 5 different ways that lead to no where.
Since you have a licensed Edition of SQL Server on your network you can install the full suite of tools on your development server or your own desktop if you wish. This will give you access to BIDS software that SliverNinja mentioned.
I would say since you are limited to what can be done you only option would be to deploy a simple/basic package to your production server. If your development server can communicate with that server, I would say create your WCF service on the development box and have it simply call the package on your production server. The package does not have to do anything fancy to simply verify that you can call it correctly. Just have the package import a simple file and output it to a different file; or just export some catalog data from a database.
I do not see, since you are limited by not being able to duplicate your production environment on your dev server, that this would be unreasonable to do in this situation. If it has to get done, it has to get done.
So you want to create a package without BIDS?
Feel free to create one using plain text, there you go :)
<DTS:Executable xmlns:DTS="www.microsoft.com/SqlServer/Dts" DTS:ExecutableType="MSDTS.Package.1">
<DTS:Property DTS:Name="PackageFormatVersion">2</DTS:Property>
<DTS:Property DTS:Name="CreationDate" DTS:DataType="7">5/18/2012 1:21:47 PM</DTS:Property>
<DTS:Property DTS:Name="ProtectionLevel">1</DTS:Property>
<DTS:Property DTS:Name="DisableEventHandlers">0</DTS:Property>
.....a lot more properties.....
</DTS:Executable>
I'm joking, of course. My points are:
dtsx packages are merely XML files created by BIDS
you can create your package anywere, if you cant use your local box,
use what you have, even if that means to use your server (if that's
your only option, do it)
you dont need BIDS or even the SSIS service to run pacakges. DTEXEC,
DTEXECUI and SQl Server Agent are capable of running packages by
themselves (unless the packages are deployed to the package store)
I am not aware of any tool that builds packages other than BIDS. It
wouldn't make much sense, is like asking if there is a tool where you
can build C# application other than visual studio
You need BIDS (Business Intelligence Development Studio) to create the DTSX packages and SSIS which isn't available with SQL Express.
You also need Visual Studio to create WCF services, which it sounds like you already have.
Hi
I am trying to build an SSIS package to import text files to SQL data tables and then move the text files to a 'processed' file.
I can get the package to run successfully on my workstation in Visual Studio 2005 (although I got 'access denied' on the 'move' operation but I will worry about that later).
However, when I deploy to the SQL server, and execute the package on the server, I get DTS_E_PRODUCTLEVELTOLOW error on the import to SQL stage. I have checked the SSIS service is running on the server which it is.
The data upload is very simple - just the first column from the text file plus the file name in two columns, so none of the 'smart' stuff that might not be installed.
Can anyone help?
Thanks!
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa337371.aspx
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Possible Causes
This message might appear because of one of the following problems:
You have installed BI Development Studio but you have not installed Integration Services. Running packages outside Business Intelligence Development Studio requires the installation of Integration Services.
Your package may be attempting to use advanced components for Analysis Services, data mining, or text mining that are available only in SQL Server Enterprise.
In the unlikely case you are using SQL Server 2005 without any service packs, there was a problem with running the Import-/Export Data Wizard. This problem was solved beginning with SP1.
A great collection of tips are in this blog post:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/michen/archive/2006/11/11/ssis-product-level-is-insufficient.aspx
Update:
To find out, what SQL Server Version you are running, execute the following query on your server:
SELECT SERVERPROPERTY('productversion'), SERVERPROPERTY ('productlevel'), SERVERPROPERTY ('edition')
The second column of the result tells you the service pack level.