I am working on migrating a DTS package which contains a oledb source (but we dont have access to the source), a olebd destination (but we have access to the dest.) and a DATA Pump Task.
In this situation If i want to migrate it to 2008 task is it possible.
I don't know how the mappings are defined as 2000 designer throws errors saying unable to find source.
Is there way to skip valdiation of Source when opening Data Pump Task, so that i can see the mappings and define SSIS package.
Please help. its a bit urgent :(
You can do that, but you will have to do a lot of clicking to get the column names:
Open the DTS package and in the "package" menu hit the "disconnected edit". There you have to find the specified pump task (under the tasks). There you will have transformations defined (usually each column = 1 transformation) and under each transformation you will have source and destination columns.
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we are using SSIS packages to process Cubes in SQL Server 2008 R2 Analysis Services. Until now we have been using an Analysis Services Processing Task in the package and have been manually adding all Cube and Dimension objects to the processing queue in that task. This also means we have to adjust the package when we add Dimensions to a Cube or Cubes to the SSAS DB.
But now we need an SSIS package that will process the whole SSAS database selected, so that we can modify the Cube later on, possibly adding Dimensions, without having to modify the package as well.
In SQL Server Management Studio it is possible to right click an SSAS database and select "Process..." but for the corresping SSIS task, I could not find out how to do this.
Is there any way to process a whole SSAS database in an SSIS package?
Thanks in advance,
Christian
I'm confused as to why you can't use the SSIS Analysis Services Processing Task. I believe you have to option to select a database in the processing settings. You can choose then entire database rather than choosing individual cubes or dimensions on that database. Just make sure the Type says database.
I have also used the XMLA answer provided by #Meff and it works fine as well.
You could also use AMO, you would need to include the Microsoft.AnalysisServices reference to a SSIS script task and provide the variable values. This way doesn't lock you to the database Id but is slightly more complex:
string cubeConnectionString = Dts.Variables["User::CubeConnectionString"].Value.ToString();
string databaseName = Dts.Variables["User::DatabaseName"].Value.ToString();
Server server = new Server();
server.Connect(cubeConnectionString);
Database database = server.Databases.FindByName(databaseName);
database.Process(ProcessType.ProcessFull);
server.Disconnect();
Dts.TaskResult = (int)ScriptResults.Success;
When you go to process the whole database, before you click 'OK', you should see a "Script" button in the top-left of the process window. This will generate the processing XMLA to a new window.
Now take that processing XMLA and use it in an "Analysis Services Execute DDL" control-flow component.
Be careful with cube re-deployments as you'll see the XMLA uses the Id not the name of the database.
Please forgive my initial posting being a question instead of a solution.
I’ve got two SSIS packages that basically do the same thing. The last step of both is a ‘Data Flow Task’ that queries the database and attempts to write the results to a flat file. One of the packages builds the flat file correctly, the other builds the file but doesn’t populate it with any records. Running SQL Server 2008 R2.
This is in a University setting involving transferring degree_codes and demographics between two systems. The degree_code package is functioning, the demographics isn’t. Both ‘Data Flow Tasks’ consist of an OLE DB Source linked to a Flat File Destination (tab delimitated text). Both packages display the correct data set when previewing the OLE DB Source.
In the Flat File Destination, the mappings are correct in both packages. However, when previewing the data, the degree details display correctly, but there are no records in the demographic preview. That’s also true when looking at the connection managers. And when the packages run, the degree_codes file is correct while the demographics file only contains a header. It seems there is a problem with the link between the OLE DB Source and the Flat File Destination
Both packages run with only a warning about shared global memory impacting performance. I’ve deleted and rebuilt the non-functioning Data Flow Task and connection managers without fixing the problem. At this point I am at a loss of which direction to go and don’t know how to diagnose the problem. Have any of you folks run into a similar situation or do you have any suggestions how to chase it down. I’d be grateful for any solutions.
Try to export the data to a tmp table in your db, if the data is saved there the issue is on the file connection, if not your query needs to be rewritten
Verify the query columns you are executing on the tables are matching and data types are as expected in output , try putting all as string types initially and check if it works then apply correct data types after it executes successfully you can modify for data types as needed
I'm having this exact same problem I've been looking aroung but this is the only place I've seen the same issue and it is not resolved.
Does anyone knows what the problem might be?
I checked in Visual Studio and my SSIS version is 11.0.2100.60 (not a trial, not a beta).
EDIT: These are the steps I'm taking and the issue
First I choose a Connection Manager, right-click, select properties and click in Expressions option
Then in Property Expression Builder choose Connection String property and click in Expression option
Finally, in the Expression Builder dialog there is no option for variables, in every page I've read says that there should be a Variables node in there
Am I missing something?
SSIS 2012 has introduced the concept of Project level connection managers. What I see on the referenced post on the MSDN forums it the user has created a project level flat file connection manager and is unable to configure it with a local variable. Assuming that is the problem, my answer follows.
An SSIS project is generally more than one package. To simplify lives, the SSIS team now allows for the sharing of common resources across projects, connection managers being one of those resources.
Logically, if a thing is shared across a project, how can something that only exists in one file configure that resource? That configuration change would only work when Package1 is executing. When Package2 fires, unless the same variable and same expression was applied to the shared resource, you would experience different outcomes. That'd be a maintenance nightmare, which you might already experience if you don't have strong configuration practices.
If I create a Flat File Connection Manager at the project level, I can only reference variables that are also at the project level. Except there are not variables at the project level. Instead, they are called Parameters.
To that end, I created a Parameter called SomeProjectParameter
I then created a package, Package1.dtsx, and added 2 Flat File Connection Managers: FlatFileConnectionManagerLocal and FlatFileConnectionManagerProject
Instead that package, I also created a variable called SomeLocalVariable.
This screenshot shows me applying an expression to the ConnectionString property of FlatFileConnectionManagerLocal. There you can see that both the package variable, SomeLocalVariable is available as well as SomeProjectParameter
Now, if I try to apply an expression to the project's connection manager, you will only have project parameters available to you.
It's interesting to note that you can't apply an expression to a project level Connection Manager outside of the context of an SSIS package. There's simply no editor available to you until you have an open SSIS package. But, once applied, all the packages in the project will be similarly configured.
Quirk of the IDE I suppose. Also, don't be alarmed by the lack of color in these screenshots, I'm running with the 2012 version of SSDT.
i had the same problem and it was because the flat file source was set as a project source so i had to convert it into a package connection.
Right-click on the source and choose convert to package connection
Maybe this will help.
The Microsoft SSIS tutorial have these confusing statements:
In the Connection Managers pane, right-click Sample Flat File Source Data, and select Properties.
In the Properties window make sure the PackagePath starts with \Package.Connections. If not, in the
Connection Managers pane, right-click Sample Flat File Source Data, and select Convert to Package Connection.
\Package.Connections was initially displayed in the properties window, although I had not yet converted to Package Connection.
After reading this thread, I right clicked on Sample Flat File Source Data and then Convert to Package Connection and was able to complete the lesson. Thanks for the answers!
When I open up the solution that contains SSIS packages created by a colleague, I get this awkward error that tells me nothing about what I'm supposed to do to fix it.
He left instructions to take all the "variables" out of the connection string in the dtsx file manually before opening up the solution. I have done that, now when try to view the package in the designer I just get an image of a red x and this message.
EDIT: You cannot see any design elements, no tabs across the top to switch to errors or data flows. Just a gray center area on the screen with a red x, and the message, its like VisualStudio dies in the process of reading the dtsx file.
The question is rather unspecific so it’s of course difficult to get on the right track here. All of the given answers focus different issues. I would say that PeterX had the best guess. The reason for the error could be as simple as a modified data source.
I came across with a bug "error output has no corresponding output" quite often when adding a new column to a table that needs to be processed by an existing SSIS package. This bug came along with an error message saying that a "Value does not fall within the expected range".
A newly added column needed to be processed by an existing SSIS Package. The expected behavior is that SSIS will recognize that there is a new column and select this column on the columns page of the OLEDB Source Task SSIS to be processed. However, when opening the OLEDB Source Task for the first time after having modified the table I got twice the following error message: "Value does not fall within the expected range." The error message showed up when opening the editor and when opening the Columns page of the editor. Within the Advanced Editor of the OLEDB Source Task the new column showed up in the OLEDB Source Output Columns Tree, but not in the OLEDB Source Error Output Columns Tree. This is the actual underlying problem of the error message. Unfortunately, there seems to be no way to add the missing column manually.
To solve the problem, remove and re-add the newly added column on the Columns Page of the normal Editor as mentioned by Jeff.
It is worth to be mentioned that the data source of the OLEDB Source task was a modified MDS View. Microsoft CRM Dynamics – as mentioned in the related thread – is using views, too. That leads me to the conclusion, that using views as a data source may produce either of the above mentioned errors, when modifying datatypes or adding/removing columns.
Related Thread: Error" ...The OLE DB Source.Outputs[OLE DB Source Output].Columns[XXXXXXXX] on the non-error output has no corresponding output
The described workaround refers to Visual Studio 2008 Version 9.0.30729.4462 QFE with Mircorsoft.NET Framework 3.5 SP1. The database is SQL Server 2008 R2 (SP2).
I had to delete and recreate the OLE DB Data source in my Data Flow - this is where I got the error. I also noted I had to "re-select" the "OLE DB connection manager" in the drop-down-list to force it to recognise the new connection.
This was probably a combination of getting the solution from TFS (where I noticed the data-sources didn't come-across properly and it complaining about a missing connection GUID) and/or copying and pasting the elements from another package.
(For BIDS 2008).
I had this issue for my OLE DB Source component with an SQL command after adding new columns to the database, and it wouldn't let me select columns or anything else to add the new columns.
I'm working with an Oracle database, and the only way I could get it to update was to change the SQL query to select 1 from dual, and preview it. Then revert it back to my old query.
You get a similar message if someone uses EncryptAllWithUserKey as the ProtectionLevel. However, I believe the message is slightly different (even though you get a grey design surface with a red X).
Have you tried viewing the file in Notepad? Is it just a series of GUIDs or is there anything in it that is humanly readable? If it doesn't have any readable code, then it was probably encyrpted with the user key.
If the employee deployed the packages to a server and used SQL Server as the deployment destination (not File System or SSIS Pacakge Store) then you can download the packages to your machine. Just connect to the SQL Server Integration Services engine, expand Stored Packages, expand MSDB, expand the relevant folder, right-click on the package, and click Export Package. Save the file on your local machine and open it. The package will probably lose annotations and pretty formatting, but otherwise it should be identical to what the employee deployed.
I just struck the same issue. After flailing about for a bit, I found the solution was to edit the Solution Configuration.
The Solution Configuration appeared to have a matching Project configuration, as shown:
However clicking the drop-down arrow for that Project (SSIS-Advance in this example) revealed that there was no Project Configuration for that project called Production - Sub Reports. I'm not sure how that came about - this Solution has a 7-year history and many developers.
Anyway once I created a New Project configuration (using that same drop-down menu), it is all happy now.
If it has Oracle data sources, you may need to install the Microsoft Connectors v4.0 for Oracle by Attunity:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=52950
I also had to use VS 2015 - the version originally used to create the project and package.
I had this exact problem and installing these connectors and using VS 2015 fixed the issue.
I had this occur as well when I tried to call a stored procedure with OUTPUT parameters with OLE DB.
I found this: http://sqlsolutions.blogspot.com/2013/04/ssis-value-does-not-fall-within.html, which resolved my issue. The relevant action was to rename the SSIS parameter mappings to '0', '1', etc.
So for example, when calling dbo.StoredProc #variable0 = ?, #variable1 = ? OUTPUT, #variable2 = ?;, in the parameter mapping dialog, you would name the parameters '0', '1', 2' to correspond to those. Ah, SSIS <3
I get this when I do not follow the convention for parameter naming, e.g. not name parameters 0,1,2,... in the right order for OLE DB connections.
The details are documented here.
In your connection manager, convert your connections to package level instead of project level
Delete connection manager and re-create and setup ssis package solve the problem.
I got this issue after I Add Existing Connection Manager in a SSIS project. I was just importing a Project Connection Manager from a different project (.conmgr) to my project. My solution to fix the issue was:
Deleting the imported .conmgr
Recreating it from scratch
I have a SSIS package that does a simple read from a flat file and inserts into SQL Server 2005. It was running fine on one computer (computer 1) with both the source and destination pointing locally.
The package then got moved to another computer (computer 2), again with everything pointing locally, and started failing. After looking into this for a while, it turned out to be that the columns of the destination table were in a different order on the two machines. The package was failing because it was trying to write data to the wrong table columns. That is, on computer 1 the columns were A,B,C and on computer 2 they were C,A,B - the package was trying to write A's data into C on computer 2, etc.
Am I missing something here? Does SSIS really depend on column order when writing to an OLE DB destination, instead of the column names? Or do I have a bad setting?
SSIS reads the metadata from the connection and stores it with the mapping. Sometimes it can detect a change and will give a validation error (in which case the package will fail at validation and you will have to alter the package to correct the problem). You can sometimes see this in the designer if you open the package, and it will offer to correct the columns.
In some cases, it will not detect changes during the validation phase, and it will fail during the insert.
So my question is, did it fail during validation or a later execution phase?
It is same when you use Oracle as source or destination. It doesn't detect column changes and faling during execution. I am updating Data Flow task everytime when column order changed or a new column added.
Have you checked the column mapping of in the data flow task? Sometimes the mapping disappears or points to a wrong column. In your case the SSIS package is moved then there is good chance the mapping is corrupted. I think you just need to correct the mapping and it should be a fix.