I need to export a table having more than 100 colonnes to a destination flat file, how can I map them automatically and not one by one one manually in SSIS SQL2012. There is any option as the automatic mapping existing in DTS?
Assuming the flat file already exists, then it's a simple matter of going into your flat file destination and there should be an option, might be right click, for auto map by column name.
Unless your text file has column names specified in it, it will be named column1 to column100. This will not automatically map to your destination (Unless destination is column1 to column100). You will have to put in the effort and rename the 'column1' names of the text source to your destination's column names.
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I have a scenario where the user will upload a file with some data and a header in that file. i need to process the file and make sure that the field names in the header are correct and have no whitespaces and no special characters.
eg. User dropped file in storage account contains the following header
i need to change it to this
How can i do this ADF v2 ?
Data Factory won't really do this as is, but if this is part of a larger ETL process, you can rename the columns in a Data Flow using Select.
Source:
Add a Select node and go to the "Select settings" tab. If you know the schema, you can just fix the columns manually here:
You can also use a Rule-based mapping to remove spaces from all the column names. To do this, remove all the existing mappings and add the following:
"true()" in this context means apply to all columns, and '$$' refers to the column name. The "Inspect" tab will show the updated column names:
When I create the SSIS package it requires a file to be referenced to pick up the files metadata. For example the column headers will be ColumnA, ColumnB.
I have always assumed that these column names need to be present in the file for it to be loaded. Recently business, for whatever reason, changed one of the column names in the file to something else so the file contains ColumnA, NotColumnB. When the SSIS package runs it ignores this and loads the file. I assumed that it would fail. Is my assumption correct and there is something weird going on or is my assumption incorrect, if so please let me know why.
I have changed the column names in a few other packages that load data from a file and they also dont care what the column names are
Click on the flat file source, and press F4 to show the properties tab. There are a property called ValidateExternalMetadata change it to True.
For more information check the following answer:
Detect new column in source not mapped to destination and fail in SSIS
Update 1
It looks like that flat file connection manager has no validation engine and the metadata defined is used at configuration time to configure the mappings between the data file and the database.
Why Does't SSIS Flat File Data Check If Columns Names or Order Have Changed? What is best way to check?
Flat file destination columns data types validation
I have a SSIS package - which within a FOR LOOP CONTAINER I look in a particular location, for a particular file format and import it into a database.
This is working fine - when I have two files the contents of both files are being imported.
So I have a Variable Mapping under my ForLoop which records the fully qualified name. What I want to do is when I import the file is I am also recording the file path of where it has come from.
I'm unsure in my dataflow task where I would put that ? Under the data flow I have my source file and a destination.
I tried to have a sql task after the data flow that updated the field in the database with the variable (via Parameter Mapping), but that set the field to the same value for everything (the last file path found) which is not what I'm after.
Any advice would be welcome
In your dataflow task, in between your source and destination add a Derived Column transformation. This will add columns to your dataset with a name and value that you specify. If you reference variables in which you are storing the file name for your loop container, the name of the file being accessed will be appended to an additional column in your dataset. Obviously you need to make sure that this column is present in your destination table.
I just added a new field to my OLE DB Source in an SSIS package. It then goes to a Flat file Destination. In the Flat file destination object, the field shows up under available inpt columns but doesnt show up anywhere else (Available destination Columns, or the bottom box that lists fields)
How do i get this as an available destination field?
Go into the Flat File Connection manager used by your destination object, go to Advanced, and click "New", then add the column properties.
Delete the destination and recreate it, it usually works.
i have 3 csv files in a folder which contains eid, ename, country fields, and my 5 csv files names are test1_20120116_034512, test1_20120116_035512,test1_20120116_035812 etc.. my requirement is I want to take lastest file based on timne stamp and modified date, which i have done. Now i want to import the extracted file name into destination table..
my destination tables contains fields like,
filepath, filename, eid, ename, country
I have posted regarding this before in the same site i got an answer for extracting filename, now i want to load the extracted FileName into destination table
Import most recent csv file to sql server in ssis
my destination tables should have output as
C:/source test1_20120116_035812 1234 tester USA
In your DataFlow task, add a Derived Column Transformation. The value of CurrentFile will be the fully qualified path to the file. As you only want the file name, I would look to use a replace function on that with the base folder and then strip the remaining slash. This does not strip the file extension but you can add yet another call to REPLACE and substitute an empty string
Derived Column Name: filename
Derived Column:
Expression: REPLACE(REPLACE(#[User::CurrentFile], #[User::RootFolder], ""), "\\", "")
The above expects it to look like
CurrentFile = "C:\source\test1_20120116_035812.csv"
RootFolder = "C:\source"
Edit
I believe you've done something in your approach that I did not do. You should see a warning about possible truncation but given the values discussed in this and the preceding question, I don't believe the 4k limit on expressions will be of concern.
Displaying the derived column
Demonstrating the derived column does work
I will give you a +1 for providing an approach I wasn't aware of, but you'll still need to add a derived column to match your provided format (base path name)
Full path is provided from the custom properties. Use the above REPLACE section to remove the path info except use the column [FileName] instead of #[User::CurrentFile]
I tried to get the filename through the procedure which Billinkc has given, but its throwing me error stating that filename column failed becaue of truncation error..
Any how i tried different approach to load file name into table.
steps i have used
1. right click on flat file Source and click on show advanced edito for Flat file
2. select component Properties tab
3. Inside that Custom Properties section ---> it has a property FileNameColumnName
I have assigned Filename to that column property like
FileNameColumnName----> FileName thats it, am able to get the filename into my destination table..