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Maintenance Plan
Posted by Audrey Ng at 10/5/2007 12:14:26 PM
Good afternoon, I have just deployed four SSIS packages to the MSDB database. Unfortunately, when I deployed, the packages were not in the order that I wanted them to be in. (1) How do I re-order my packages? (2) What is the purpose of the Maintenance Plan folders under the MSDB folder? ...more >>

Importing from Excel
Posted by dataGirl at 10/5/2007 9:42:01 AM
Hello, We just recentely upgraded to SQL 2005 and I'm having trouble with the Import/Export wizard failing to insert data into my guid columns. A new guid is supposed to be inserted when a new record is created, but this insn't happening in 2005. In 2000, I would ignore the guid column in ...more >>

IBM OLE DB Provider for DB2
Posted by Borf at 10/4/2007 12:34:42 PM
I am using the IBM OLE DB Provider for DB2 from SQL Server Integration Services. I can connect and read the DB2 tables with no problem. My issue is that I can not get it to work as part of a transaction. Has anyone done this? is it even possible? Thanks Borf ...more >>

Powerful server takes more than 30 minutes to run DTS package
Posted by Devious Devil at 10/4/2007 12:54:00 AM
Hi, Problem Context: I have a group of related DTS packages each one produces a single CSV file. I have another DTS package which calls each of the related group one after another to genereate all the files in one go. The DTS packages are run via a stored procedure that calls xp_cmdshell th...more >>

Available Input columns on Lookup not available
Posted by dba at 10/3/2007 4:19:06 PM
When I tried to use the Lookup the checkboxes are not displayed on the Available Inputs they are on Available Lookups, I thought it was a datatype missmatch so I pumped it through a data conversion before hand so both sides are varchar(25) trying to do a lookup on State. Still same problem, anyb...more >>

Append Data to Existing table daily
Posted by Matt Williamson at 10/2/2007 2:00:28 PM
I've been given a task and I'd like to get some feedback as to the best way to accomplish it. I have a table that is historical data from an old system that stays static. Everyday, I need to export a csv file from a new system and append it to the static table for all entries after a specified...more >>

remove TXT file using DTS package
Posted by FAHIM at 10/2/2007 7:34:10 AM
any idea how to delete the physical file (C:\Test\file.txt) using DTS package. ...more >>

DTS package will execute OK but Job will fail
Posted by FAHIM at 10/2/2007 6:37:28 AM
I have DTS package, that will import TXT file to SQL Table, it works fine when I execute package manually, but it fails when I put it on Schedule or Run through Job (Start the Job). No Error information, except, it says, job was failed. Any idea. Thanks, ...more >>



Joining tables from different server in DTS
Posted by sharancs NO[at]SPAM gmail.com at 10/2/2007 3:25:27 AM
Hi, Can any one please let me know how i can join a table in one server with a table in another server using DTS. The result from the SQL that contains this join condition will be transformed to another table in one of the servers. Regards, Sharan ...more >>

SSIS package reads in MS Access memo column?
Posted by mscertified at 10/1/2007 3:35:00 PM
Has anyone successfully input an MS Access memo column into a SSIS package. I need to have this be a fixed length file and truncated to 2000 characters. I am having trouble with the data type which defaults to DT_NTEXT. How do I get this data into a fixed width column with the truncation. I've...more >>

Date format
Posted by FAHIM at 10/1/2007 12:46:00 PM
HI friends, Using SmallDateTime in SQL Table, how can I enforce M/DD/YY format on column of type smalldatetime in SQL ServerDB. What happening is that SQL convert this to YYYY-MM-DD, when my DTS package brings data to table? Note : output of DTS package is MM/DD/YY format. Thanks...more >>

SSIS problems
Posted by mscertified at 10/1/2007 11:26:04 AM
No idea if this is the right forum for this - could not find an SSIS forum anywhere. I'm working with this for the first time and finding it very weird. Nothing seems to work intuitively. I'm trying to set up a simple package and it is taking hours. I'm using VS 5. I have a data flow whi...more >>

SQL Execute Task +table input parameter?
Posted by christof at 10/1/2007 12:00:00 AM
Hello, Is it possible to pass a result of one select from SQL Execute Task to another one? I have a scenario (lets name SQL Execute Task SET to simplify): 1) SET1 is a long duration SELECT and executes a function that returns me a one column (COL1) table 2) I use the result to foreach contai...more >>


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