Changing One Field in MySQL Database Breaks Visual Studio Report - mysql

I have a project I'm working on that pulls data from a MySQL database, I read the data and do some calculations to be used to display charts and graphs, and finally have the information that was calcuated compiled in a PDF report generated from a ReportViewer. The report worked fine so I thought I'd test out making changes to the database.
There is a field in one table called "name", it's type is NVAR CHAR(MAX). To accomodate this type I read the "name" and convert it to a string using:
Convert.ToString(reader[2]); //reader is the object retrieved from the SQL query
As said before, this works fine until I change the "name" field in one table. I've changed it from a numerical string such as "2323" or "1 " (notice the space, which still works) to something arbitrary like "TEST", "TEST RUN", and "TEST " (notice the space). The program doesn't complain until I make this change at which point I'm given the following error:
Warning: Warnings occurred while executing the subreport "Subreport 1".(rsWarningExecutingSubreport)
Warning: An error occurred while executing the subreport "Subreport 1" Instance: 323iT4R0x0S0): Data retrieval failed for the subreport, 'Subreport 1', located at: MyCompanyReports.Reports.Measurement.rdlc. Please check the log files for more information. (rsErrorExecutingSubreport)
I've searched around with this error and noticed that the following lines being in the wrong order was and issue, I think I have them in the correct order because I've successfully create reports with this configuration:
reportViewer1.LocalReport.SubreportProcessing += new SubreportProcessingEventHandler(LocalReport_SubreportProcessing);
this.reportViewer1.RefreshReport();
What are some things that could be going wrong that cause this issue? I'm at my wits end.
I'll post what code I can if needed.
Thanks
EDIT:
For clarification, the report is being rendered to a PDF file. The PDF is still generated but instead of my charts/graphs, I am given the error string. The error occurs directly after this line:
renderedBytes = this.reportViewer1.LocalReport.Render(reportype, devinfo, out mimeType, out encoding, out fileNameExtension, out streams, out warnings);

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How to preview a Source Assistant SQL Command with parameters

TL;DR: A data flow task "works" when the package runs, but I am unable to view the query when clicking "preview" in the Data flow Source Assistant.
My working theory is that somehow the Source Assistant is unable to get the value of the parameter when previewing. I tried to resolve this problem by use of (iterations) "Parameter" and "Variable" without success. The example shown below use "Parameter".
In an SSIS Data Flow task, I have a Source Assistant with "SQL Command" as its data access mode.
SELECT h.Campus,
h.StudentName,
h.StudentId,
h.EntryDate
FROM dbo.RwsBaseEnrollmentHistory h
WHERE h.Campus = ?;
The question mark indicates a parameter, which I have defined in "Parameters".
In the OLE DB Source Editor, I made sure to map the variable to the parameter.
When I click "Preview" I get an error:
The data in question cannot be shared, but trust me when I say that when I run the package, the query works as intended. It's the inability to preview the query that I'd like to be able to fix.
What do I need to do so that I can preview the query without having to hard-code the parameter value?
I stumbled into a possible answer. It appears to work so far and I haven't been able to break it. If there is a better way of doing this I would love feedback.
This is my resolution:
Create a variable to hold the desired query (like shown in the example above). In this example, I name it EnrollmentHistory.
In the "Expression", click the [...] button and paste the query. Be sure that double-quotes surround the query.
"SELECT
h.Campus,
h.StudentName,
h.StudentId,
h.EntryDate
FROM dbo.RwsBaseEnrollmentHistory h
WHERE h.Campus = '" + # [User::Campus] + "'"
Press the "Evaluate Expression" button and press OK.
Go back to your Source Assistant and select "SQL Command from Variable" as the Data Access Mode and the Variable you just defined (in this case EnrollmentHistory) as the Variable name. You will see that the parameter is correctly resolved in the Variable Value.

There was an error compiling this function. Access 2013 Calculated field issue

I have a table with a field which is of a calculated type and contains the following expression:
IIf(IsNull([OrderValue]),[TotalPhaseLabourCost]-[DefaultOrderValue],[TotalPhaseLabourCost]-[OrderValue])
For some reason when I go to open the table in any view it throws the error:
"There was an error compiling this function.
The Visual Basic module contains a syntax error.
Check the code, and then recompile it."
However, I have this database currently open on two laptops, one works fine and the other has this issue. I have checked both db's refs and they also match up.
That's a bit vague, so I can only make guesses.
Try to compile the code as the error message says.
check if you have any function with the same name as your field
Try replacing IIf(IsNull([OrderValue]), by IIf([OrderValue] is Null,
You probably miss the leading equal sign:
=IIf(IsNull([OrderValue]),[TotalPhaseLabourCost]-[DefaultOrderValue],[TotalPhaseLabourCost]-[OrderValue])
Or you could use:
=[TotalPhaseLabourCost]-Nz([OrderValue],[DefaultOrderValue])
For me there was some problem with some fields (it showed an error message #NAME? in some of the fields (date, number) in the 'new' record).
For me it worked to close the table, right-click it and open in design view.
For each of the fields with problems, I choose the data type (that was already shown) again from the drop down menu (so, same data type!).
Save.
Then it didn't give the error messages anymore.

SSIS Errors for simple CSV Data Flow

Sorry to darken your day with my troubles, but SSIS has broken me! I am new to SSIS and I just seem to be misunderstanding it.
For background: I have a few versions of a basic package that includes a Foreach Loop container and a Data Flow with a few Derived Columns that imports CSV files into a SQL Server Staging table. It is very straightforward and does include an Execute SQL task and a File Move but those work fine. The issues are with the Foreach loop and the Data Flow.
I have one version of this package (let’s call it “A”) that seemed to be working fine. It would process multiple files in a folder, insert records into the staging table, properly execute the SQL Statements, and move the files to Archive. Everything seemed fine until I carefully QA’d the process. Turns out it was duplicating the data from one file, and never importing the data from a second Source File! Yet, the second/dupe round of data included the Source Filename (via a derived column) of the second file (but the data from the first). So it looked like I had successfully processed BOTH files until I looked at the actual data and saw that none of the values from the second source file were ever written to the Staging table.
Once I discovered this, I figured that the problem was in the Foreach loop and how I setup the different file path & name variables. So, I decided to try to make a new version of the package. I started by copying package A and created package B. In B, I deleted the Source Connection manager and created a new Connection Manager along with all new file & path variables. I then tried to cleanup/fix/replace various elements in my Data Flow and Foreach loop. In the process, I discovered that the Advanced Mappings from A – which DID work – were virtually all setup as String (even the Currency and Date columns). That did not seem right, so I modified each source money column by changing to data type Currency, and changed each date-related column to data type Date.
What followed has been dozens and dozens of Errors and I cannot get Package B to run. I have even changed all of the B data types back to String (mirroring the setup in Package A which DID work). But, still no joy.
This leads me to ask a few questions to those of you smarter than I:
1) Why can’t SSIS interpret Source CSV data using the proper data type? I.e. why do I need to set every Input column as a STRING when some columns are clearly & completely Numeric, Currency or Dates? (Yes, the Source CSV files are VERY clean – most don’t even have NULLS)
a. When I do change the Advanced mapping for a date-related Source column to Date, I get the ever present error message: [Flat File Source [30]] Error: Data conversion failed. The data conversion for column "Settle Date" returned status value 2 and status text "The value could not be converted because of a potential loss of data.".
2) When I reset the data types back to String in package B, I still get errors – usually Truncation errors (and Yes – I have adjusted the length to 250 in one of these columns).
a. Error Message: "The value could not be converted because of a potential loss of data.".
b. When I reset the Mappings to ignore the column (as a test), it throws a similar error at the next column.
3) Any ideas why Package A would dupe a file’s data and not process the second file, yet throw no errors and move both to Archive?
4) Why does the Data Viewer appear to have parsing errors (it shows data in the wrong columns) but when you use the Copy data feature in the data viewer and paste it into Excel, all of the data lines up perfectly?
5) Are there any tips & tricks that a rookie SSIS user needs to understand and which might not be apparent through the documentation and searching web articles as well as this site?
I can provide further details if they will help, but these packages are really very simple and should not be causing me this much frustration.
THANKS for any insights.
DGP
Wow seems like you have a lot of ssis issues... I think the reason for the same file being extracted is because of the the way your 'variable mappings' is defined.
Have you had a look and followed this guide:
https://www.simple-talk.com/sql/ssis/ssis-basics-introducing-the-foreach-loop-container/
Hope this helps.
Shaheen
Thanks Tab & Shaheen,
To all SSIS rookies - please learn from my mistakes!
It appears that my issue was actually in how I identified the TEXT QUALIFIER in the Connection Manager. I had entered "" and that was causing problems with how my columns were being parsed. The parsing issues caused unexpected values to appear in some of the columns and that was causing the errors in the package.
When I tried changing the the Text Qualifier to only ONE double quote - " - the whole thing worked!
As I mentioned - and as Shaheen suspected - my initial issues with the duplicate processing was probably due to how I setup the foreach loop. I had already fixed that, bit was still getting errors until I fixed the Text Qualifier.
I have only tested it a few times but it looks like that was the issue.
Thanks for the contributions.
DGP

What are the non-obvious causes of a data type mismatch while loading data in an SSIS package?

I'm very new to SSIS, so please bear with me. A developer gave me a SSIS package and asked me to create a scheduled job on our database server to run it. He says it runs on his development box but I'm seeing the job fail with the following data type mismatch error:
0xC020837F The data type of column "output column 'col1' does not match the data type "System.Byte[]" of the source column 'col1'"
I opened the package in Visual Studio, and in the Input and Output Properties of the item, it shows both the External Column and Output Column as being of data type database timestamp [DT_DBTIMESTAMP]. I checked the source column on the server and verified that it is a datetime column. Are there any other reasons this error could be thrown?
This looks like your source table definition is not the same on development and production environment. Since You didn't provide enough details about what kind of source component and what connection manager You use and what is your source query (maybe You CAST or CONVERT some data), we have to make some assumptions.
As stated in SSIS Error and Message Reference, error code 0xC020837F (-1071611009) has name DTS_E_ADOSRCDATATYPEMISMATCH and description:
The data type of "" does not match the data type "" of the source
column "__".
From error name (DTS_E_ADOSRCDATATYPEMISMATCH) and error message part "System.Byte[]" I conclude that You are probably using ADO NET Source source component.
For a start check following: open properties of source component, uncheck particular column and check it again - this forces source component to refresh external and output - this trick works for oledb source it might help You also
If that doesn't help, check following links to see if some of your source data types map to System.Byte:
Integration Services Data Types
SQL Server Data Types Mappings (ADO.NET)
Working with Data Types in the Data Flow
Probably, on either development or production environment, column is of timestamp, image, varbinary or some other type that maps to managed System.Byte[] but on the other it is not. Please recheck source tables definitions.
If this answer doesn't help You, please post create statements for your source tables as well as source query itself.

Error in retrieving data from Excel File

I have an excel file. I wanted to pull the data from excel file to SQL Server table. And the data is successfully transferred. In the excel file, I removed a text from one column named Risk from one row.The text was lengthy one. Now the package execution fails at the source ie from the excel file. The errors are shown as
[Audit [1]] Error: There was an error with output column "Risk" (100)
on output "Excel Source Output" (9). The column status returned was:
"DBSTATUS_UNAVAILABLE".
and
[Audit [1]] Error: SSIS Error Code
DTS_E_INDUCEDTRANSFORMFAILUREONERROR. The "output column "Risk"
(100)" failed because error code 0xC0209071 occurred, and the error
row disposition on "output column "Risk" (100)" specifies failure on
error. An error occurred on the specified object of the specified
component. There may be error messages posted before this with more
information about the failure.
the error occurs when I remove this particular text from this row and when I clear the whole data except the column names and reenter a new data. And even if I replace the excel file with the same name and same column names but with different data.
Make sure that the excel is closed before you run the SSIS package. Plus try refreshing the meta data by opening the SSIS package, going to the columns section in the source and destination data flow items. There seems to be no other problems or you have described/observed it in the wrong way.
I just ran into this...don't recall seeing it before in 10+ yrs of using SSIS. Google-ing found a solution. Right-click on the Excel connection>>Advanced Editor>>Input and Output Properties. Open the "Output Columns" in the Excel Source Output treeview, and find the pesky column. Change the ErrorRowDisposition to RD_IgnoreFailure.
This got me part way - I had to go in and change the DataType property and the length afterwards to get it to work. Then I put the ErrorRowDisposition back to fail and ran it only with the changed DataType and length, and it ran.
Play with these options and see if you can get it to work; I'm assuming that the data type change fixed it.