I am getting this error when trying to execute the SSIS package.
[Flat File Destination [22]] Error: Data conversion failed. The data
conversion for column "DC" returned status value 4 and status text
"Text was truncated or one or more characters had no match in the
target code page.".
The column is of size 10 and I want that to be 4 in output, I had that set in my flat file but is not working.
Please advise where I am going wrong.
Regards
V.
If you don't want to mess with the Flat File properties, you could trim the value in your data source. IE SELECT SUBSTRING(Column,1,4) AS Column FROM Table.
SSIS Error: Data conversion failed. The data conversion for column “”RECIPIENT”” returned status value 4 and status text “Text was truncated or one or more characters had no match in the target code page.
Answer:-
(1) Just Right Click on Connection string for your Flat file source and got advanced column and find "RECIPIENT" Column properties update Column size with actual size like from 50 to 100.
(2) Right Click on Flat File Source and choose “Show Advanced Editor”
Go to “Input and Output Properties “ Tab
Expand “Flat File Source Output” and choose “External Columns”
(3) Select column that is causing this error (In my case column is “RECIPIENT” as per above error message) and on right hand side, increase length say 100 or 200 or depending on your column length
(4) Now select “Output Columns” and select same column as above and make this value same as we did in Step 4, in my case its 200 as shown below.
(5) Run It works.
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I have a CSV file that I exported myself out of SFDC. It has about 60k records. 3 columns are numbers, 1 is a date, & the other dozen or so are Text.
In SSMS or SSIS, when I attempt to import the file to a table - the importer errors out on the same row of data each time "15421" with the error message:
The data conversion for column XXXX returned status value 4 and status text "Text was truncated or one or more characters had no match in the target code page."
The error is pointing to one of the Text columns. When I look at the data in the table to see what imported, the data ends exactly that that row and column - the column is empty. The contents of the column is 2 characters.
My first attempt was to use DT_STR (255), resulting in the error. If I switch to as DT_WSTR (1024) or even DT_NTEXT - the job runs and reports success, but it ends exactly that row and doesn't import the rest of the 45k records - as if something in that row (and in that column?) is indicating the file is finished at that point.
I looked at that file with Notepad ++ and Sublime Text Gremlins, and Sublime Text Hex editor - I can't see anything abnormal in the data or the text qualifying quotation marks, or the comma delimiters... Thoughts? TIA!
I downloaded the flat file from the FDA official site. The file is NDC Database File - Text Version (Zip Format).
I unzipped it and got product.txt.
I tried to import it into my database using SSIS.
All columns were varchar(max).
SSIS failed with the error message:
[Flat File Source 2] Error:
Data conversion failed. The data conversion for column "PHARM_CLASSES" returned status value 4 and status text "Text was truncated or one or more characters had no match in the target code page.".
I have no solution and need help please.
I was simulated your process, so the problem is that for some reason the "Flat File Connection Manager" recognize the "columns width" as 50 for all the columns(the actual size is more than that),
and you have more than one "problematic column" like (LABELERNAME, SUBSTANCENAME, etc.)
So for each such column change the "columns width" to 3000 and it will work for you.
If you want to be more specific you can open the file on excel and find the MAX LEN per column and then change the "columns width" respectively.
varchar max can hold around 8000 characters, so you can go with increasing output column width.
You also need to be extra conscious about field tyes very specific dates and try to pass it NULL in case it is not available in source data.
I have the following problem:
I have an SSIS package that starts with a query executed at an Oracle DB and I would like to export a Fixed Width flat file with ANSI 1253 Code Page. I get an error:
The data conversion for column [column_name] returned status value 4
and status text "Text was truncated or one or more characters had no
match in the target code page"
The problem has to do with the second part of the message, as the width is ok. I tried to use Data Conversion from Toolbox but it didn't work (probably I didn't use it on the right way). I have only select privileges to the database so I cannot add any sql procedures to remove special characters at the query. Also the idea to load data to a staging table wouldn't be the best choice at my case. Does anyone has any idea on how to convert my data without getting this error?
Thanks a lot in advance
Load data using your Source from Oracle DB and keep the data types they are giving you.
add a derived column and cast your column.
(DT_STR,[Insert Length],1252) [columnName]
if the column is ntext you need to do 2 steps to get to string.
(DT_STR...) (DT_WSTR) Ntextcolumn
I have a .csv flat file which I am trying to import using flat file source in a data flow. I am getting truncation errors which do not seem possible. As far as I can tell the specified column lengths are more than enough for all of the data.
For instance, the error I am currently looking at is:
[FF_SRC Unicode File [237]] Error: Data conversion failed. The data conversion for column ""MIC"" returned status value 4 and status text "Text was truncated or one or more characters had no match in the target code page.".
and
[FF_SRC Unicode File [237]] Error: An error occurred while processing file "C:[file path]" on data row 14.
The entry for column MIC in data row 14 is "varuna". The column MIC is set to length 100 in the connection manager and the external and output columns of the flat file source.
I have verified that the column widths specified in SSIS are more than enough for all of the incoming data. I opened the .csv in excel and got the max length for each column and rounded it up. I verified that excel did not change the data (there was one column for which it did and I have accounted for that).
I verified these values in the advanced tab of the connection manager and the "input and output properties" of the flat file source component for external and output columns.
When I run the package, it will fail due to a truncation error. It tells me the column. I verify that length specified is more than enough for that column, but then increase it anyway. When I run it again it will pass the particular value that caused the error (the one I just "fixed") but fail a few values later. There is no particular column or row causing the issue.
I even set the length to 100 for every column expect one, which should be way more than enough. (The one exception column is set to length 400 because it's values are usually 200-300 characters. This column has never caused me an issue). The longest value in the file outside of the 400 character column is 42 characters.
Edit: After setting the column lengths to 1000 the package runs successfully. I still can't explain why 1000 would work when 100 did not, both of them should be more than double what is necessary. I don't consider this a solution because I would rather not waste that memory.
I am importing a tab delimited file and get this error .
Error: 0xC02020A1 at Task 3 - Data Load for Core Data, Flat File
Source [14]: Data conversion failed. The data conversion for column
"Column 85" returned status value 4 and status text "Text was
truncated or one or more characters had no match in the target code
page.".
Error: 0xC020902A at Task 3 - Data Load for Core Data, Flat File
Source [14]: The "output column "Column 85" (448)" failed because
truncation occurred, and the truncation row disposition on "output
column "Column 85" (448)" specifies failure on truncation. A
truncation error occurred on the specified object of the specified
component. Error: 0xC0202092 at Task 3 - Data Load for Core Data, Flat
File Source [14]: An error occurred while processing file
"C:\Metrics\report-quoteCoreData.csv" on data row 540. Error:
0xC0047038 at Task 3 - Data Load for Quote Core Data, SSIS.Pipeline:
SSIS Error Code DTS_E_PRIMEOUTPUTFAILED. The PrimeOutput method on
component "Flat File Source" (14) returned error code 0xC0202092. The
component returned a failure code when the pipeline engine called
PrimeOutput(). The meaning of the failure code is defined by the
component, but the error is fatal and the pipeline stopped executing.
There may be error messages posted before this with more
When I set truncation error ignore on one of the fields it seems to import .
Unfortunately I get
Column A ( customer ) Column B ( Location ) Column C ( should be Y or N )
Jimmy New York ssssss ( instead of Y )
On this row I have an earlier field which goes over 255 characters and causes the ERROR above in SSIS. If I tell it to ignore the error , I get the wrong data inserted for that row . "Ssss ...." is the field where it goes over 255 characters.
What is the solution here?
Within your Flat File Connection Manager, you will need to adjust the OutputColumnWidth property of every column that is not sufficient to hold the incoming values. In your example, Column 85 is currently defined at 255 characters so bump it up to a reasonable value. The goal is to make that value large enough to cover the incoming data but not so large that you're wasting memory space.
Once you change your Connection Manager, any dataflow's that use the same CM will report back that the column definition has changed and you will need to go into them, double click and let the new meta-data trickle down.
I have seen situations where the metadata does not automatically refresh after certain types of transformations (Union All I'm looking at you). As a sanity check, double click on the connector immediately preceding your Destination (probably OLE DB Destination). Click the Metadata tab and ensure Column 85 is 500 or whatever value you assigned. If it's not, then you get to work your way back up the chain to find out where it's stuck. Simplest resolution is usually to delete the troubling transformation and re-add it.
I have faced this issue while importing an CSV file with a field containing more than 255 characters, I solved the issue using python.
simply import the CSVin a pandas data frame and then calculate the length of each of those string values per row
then sort the dataframe in descending order. This will enable SSIS to allocate maximum space for that field as it scans the first 3 rows to allocate storage
df = pd.read_csv(f,sheet_name=0,skiprows = 1)
df = df.drop(df.columns[[0]], axis = 1)
df['length'] = df['Item Description'].str.len()
df.sort_values('length', ascending=False, inplace=True)
writer = ExcelWriter('Clean/Cleaned_'+f[5:])
df.to_excel(writer,sheet_name='Billing',index=False)
writer.save()