I have a SQL server 2008 and I would change the name of the backup file.
I use an SSIS package to perform my backups.
The file's name looks like
[DATABASE_NAME]_backup_YYYY_MM_DD_XXXXXX_XXXXXX
This is automatically generated by SqlServer, and I want to remove the "_".
How I can modify this ?
Thank you in advance,
Andy.
I have faced similar situation today and used following workaround.
Use "Execute Process Task" to rename the backup. I created a batch file with following command and executed it after the Database backup task.
ren BDNAME.bak DBNAME_%date:~-4,4%%date:~-7,2%%date:~4,2%.bak
Above command will rename DBNAME.bak file to DBNAME_yyyymmdd.bak
Keep the file in the same folder where you keep the backup file. In the Execute Process Task Editor, specify batch file name in the Executable property and the location of batch file in the WorkingDirectory property.
Hope it helps.
I believe that you can use the DestinationManualList for this, although I've never used it myself and I can't seem to find documentation or examples of it anywhere. It appears in the Properties list for the Backup Database Task, but not in the dialog for it.
I don't believe you can manual edit the DestinationManualList property. Right click on the task and select Edit. In the dialog that opens click on "Back up databases across one or more files" then click on the Add button. In the Select Backup Destination dialog click on File name and enter the path including the name and extension of the file. What you've entered will then show up in the DestinationManualList collection.
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I am trying to automate weekly generation of a database. As a first step in this process, I need to obtain a set of files from network location M:\. The process is as follows:
Delete any possibly remaining old source files from my local folder (REMOVE_OLD_FILES).
Obtain the names of the required files using regular expressions (GET_FILES).
Copy the files from the network location to my local folder for further processing (COPY/MOVE FILES)
Step 3 is where I run into trouble, I frequently receive the below error:
Error processing files. Exception : org.apache.commons.vfs.FileNotFoundException: Could not read from "file:///M:/FILESOURCE/FILENAME.zip" because it is a not a file.
However, when I manually locatae the 'erroneous' file on the network location and try to open or copy it, there are no problems. If I then re-run the Spoon job, no errors occur for this file (although the next file might lead to an error).
So far, I have verified that steps 1 and 2 run correctly: more specifically, there are no errors in the file names returned from step 2.
Obviously, I would prefer not having to manually open all the files first to ensure that Spoon can correctly copy them. Does anyone have an idea what might be causing this behaviour?
For completeness, below are the parameters selected in the COPY/MOVE FILES step.
I was facing same issue with different clients and finally i tried with some basic approach and it got resolved. It might help in your case as well.
Also, other users can follow this rule.
Just try this: Create all required folder with Spoon Job "Create a Folder" and inactive/delete those hops from your job or transformation once your folders are created.
This is because, user you are using to delete the file/s is not recognized as Windows User. Once your folder is in place you can remove "Create a Folder" steps from your Job.
The path to the file is wrong. If you are running spoon in a Windows environment you should use the Windows format for filepaths. Try changing from
"file:///M:/FILESOURCE/FILENAME.zip"
To
"M:\FILESOURCE\FILENAME.zip"
By the way, it will only work if M: is an actual drive in the machine. If you want to access a file in the network you should use the network path to the shared folder, this way:
"\\MachineName\M$\FILESOURCE\FILENAME.zip"
or
"\\MachineName\FILESOURCE\FILENAME.zip"
If you try to access a file in a network mounted drive it won't work.
I have a problem that has been annoying me for quite some time now and a few days ago I started googling for a solution, but I haven't really gotten anything to work. I've read a little about something called SSIS, but I'm not sure it does what I'm looking for or if there is something else I should research in order to accomplish my goal. This is my problem:
My accounting program produces and updates a .dbf file with information about all vouchers and places it in a folder on my local computer. Our MySQL must continually be updated with this information. So this is what I do twice a day:
I open up the .dbf file in excel
Save it as a .csv.
Close Excel
Open the file in notepad++
Convert the formating to utf8
Save
log in to MySQL
Go to the right table
Upload the .csv
Replace the old data with the new
As this takes quite a bit of time, I feel that there must be better ways to do this. It would be great if I could have this scheduled to be done automatically or if there is some kind of an SQL query that could do this, because then I could use PHP to make a website that I could enter and have the query run when I press a button or something.
So my question is: What is the most simple way to continually get the info from the .dbf file into my SQL server?
There is a way to do your job by shedule with DBF Commander Pro's command-line interface. Use the following command in a *.BAT file:
dbfcommander.exe -edb <dbf_file_name> <server_table_name> <connection_string>
After that, create a shedule for this BAT file using Windows Sheduler.
The only issue remains, that you need to clear the destination table on MySQL database before the export process.
In order to try the export process in app GUI, click 'File -> Export to DBMS'. In the window appears click Build button in order to build the connection string: select MS OLEDB Provider for MySQL Server, then choose your server from the list, provide login and password, select a database, click OK:
In the Export to DBMS window select the destination table you want to import source DBF file to, then click Export. The command line you need you can find at the bottom part of the window.
More info on import and export DBF to a database you can find here. Detailed using of command-line is here.
As you mention of doing in PHP. What is stopping you from doing it there.
You could create one connection handle using a VFPOleDB provider to open the path location of the table, open and read the table. Then have a SECOND connection to your MySQL database open and ready to push the data there.
Then, for each row read from the VFP OleDB connection result set, do whatever special cleansing you need to.
Then, query from the MySQL connection if its an existing entry or not and if an add or update is necessary, then send the data respectively.
Continue for the rest of the records from the VFP result set.
No need to open in Excel, save to CSV format, load yet another tool, etc...
I am facing a problem while deleting a file on a network location using SSIS, since its a zip file, contains monthly SQL Database backup file, so I need to delete the last month file before copying current month file.
May be there is some app which were using this file, I am not sure, but I wanna get rid of this file, so that I can copy new file.
Thanks
Use a file task and you should be able to delete pretty much anything on any location as long as you have the rights to do so.
in SSIS 2008, In my incremental process, I would like to create automatically a new folder containing the current date.
Then copy all files from a source directoty to this new folder...
Any idea how to do that?
Thanks in advance
Largo
You can use "Execute Process" to run a robocopy .bat file to copy the files.
Create a local variable and assign it in a C# script to get the current date.
Dts.Variables["User::CurrentDate"].Value = DateTime.Now;
Found a easier way to add the date. follow the link
http://www.sqlnerd.com/ssis_dynamic_dates.htm
I'm running an FTP task inside of SSIS to receive a file and the task executes successfully yet no file is returned to the local folder that I specified. Where did the file go? How can I make the FTP task download a file to the location that I need it at?
Make sure you have the FTP connection Manager and File Manager set up, and other stuff correct as per the list here (MSDN)
operation
"OverwriteFileAtDestination"
IsASCIITransfer
I've had this problem when I first used an FTP task, but can't recall exactly what I had to do. Double check every setting and also make sure a plain old command line FTP works too to ensure it's only an SSIS issue
Is it possible you have an expression or variable set up that puts the file in another folder? This might explain why the file is not where you expect it.
Also, check to make certain that you're not pulling from a UNIX/Linux box, as this is a known issue.