how to assign two variable like Part_url, Part_Number in a single data table.
You could use the GetRowItem Activity to assign variables to columns in your data table. While iterating the data table, use the GetRowItem activity with a specific column name like "Part_url" and an output as a new variable. Here are two screenshots showing how I assign several variables while iterating a data table using the column names in the data table and the GetRowItem activity:
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I'm having a csv file with two columns for example column A and Columb B. Column B consists of string value like this : I am, doing good. so when I try to insert this data into a database only the string I am is getting inserted. I just want to know what attribute I need to add to the process group so that I am, doing good will get inserted to the database
The attached image consists of the attributes in the current process group
My first task is to add two new columns to a table, first column stores the values of M and X fields values in a single column(as a single unit with a pipe separator) and second column stores O and Z fields values in a single column(as a single unit with a pipe separator).
second task selecting agency and external letter rating(shown in image) from drop down and after saving the form the value from fields M and X should move to N and Y and this values should be stored in table column that are created from task one, Now if we save the form the values should move to O and Z fields in forms and this should continue.
Can any one help me how to proceed with this and I don't know how to separate a column value into pieces and display on form.
Better if you propose any new method that does the same work.
Adding columns:
That's a bad idea. Concatenating values is easy; storing them into a column as well. But, then - in the next step - you have to split those values into two values (columns? rows?) to be joined to another value and produce result. Can you do it? Sure. Should you? No.
What to do? If you want to store 4 values, then add 4 columns to a table.
Alternatively, see if you can create a master-detail relationship between two tables so you'd actually create a new table (with a foreign key to existing table) with two additional columns:
one that says is value stored related to M or Y
value itself
It looks like more job to do, but - should pay off in the future.
Layout:
That really looks like a tabular form, which only supports what I previously said. You can't "dynamically" add rows (or, even if you could, that's really something you should avoid because you'd have to add (actually, display) separate items (not rows that share the same item name).
I am trying to write the SQL task results in a flat file. I have a SQL task, followed by foreach loop that parses the object results to variables. Inside the foreach I have a data flow.
Inside the dataflow I have a Derived Column transformation editor, where I am trying to use the variables as columns. This is because I want to write the column in a flat file. However the Derived column keeps complaining about not having any INPUT columns (and writing 0 rows to flatfile) and I do not know why.
These are the instructions I am trying to follow: Using Variable as expression in Derived column transformation SSIS
Derived Column transformation is a part of Data Flow. Data Flow means that you have a set of rows with columns originated from some Data Flow Source, undergoing DFT transformations like Derived Column and then passing rows to Data Flow Destination. Data Flow Transformation needs to have input and output.
In your case - create a OLE DB Source with some dummy query like `select 0 as dummy' and direct this data flow to your Derived Column. Later you can drop this dummy column.
Is there any way to use a variable in the from part (for example SELECT myColumn1 FROM ?) in a task flow - source without having to give the variable a valid default value first?
To be more exact in my situation it is so that I'm getting the tablenames out of a table and then use a control workflow to foreach over the list of tablenames and then call a workflow from within that then gets data from these tables each. In this workflow I have the before mentioned SELECT statement.
To get it to work properly I had to set the variable to a valid default value (on package level) as else I could not create the workflow itself (as the datasource couldn't be created as the select was invalid without the default value).
So my question here is: Is there any workaround possible in this case where I don't need a valid default value for the variable?
The datatables:
The different tables which are selected in the dataflow have the exact same tables in terms of columns (thus which columns, naming of columns and datatypes of columns). Only the data inside of them is different (thus its data for customer A, customer B,....).
You're in luck as this is a trivial thing to implement with SSIS.
The base problem for most people is that they come at SSIS like it's still DTS where you could do whatever you want inside a data flow. They threw out the extreme flexibility with DTS in favor of raw processing performance.
You cannot parameterize the table in a SQL statement. It's simply not allowed.
Instead, the approach that people take is to use Expressions. In your case, assuming you had two Variables of type String created, #[User::QualifiedTableName] and #[User::QuerySource]
Assume that [dbo].[spt_values] is assigned to QualifiedTableName. As you loop through the table names, you will assign the value into this variable.
The "trick" is to apply an expression to the #[User::QuerySource]. Make the expression
"SELECT T.* FROM " + #[User::QualifiedTableName] + " AS T;"
This allows you to change out your table name whenever the value of the other variable changes.
In your data flow, you will change your OLE DB Source to be driven by a query contained in a variable instead of the traditional table selection.
If you want an example of where I use QuerySource to drive a data flow, there's an example on mixing an integer and string in an ssis derived column
Create a second variable. Set its Expression to create the full
Select statement, using the value of the first variable.
In the Data Source, use "SQL command from variable" option for the
Data Access Mode property.
If you can, set a default value for the variable you created in step
That will make filling out the columns from your data source much easier.
If you can't use a default value for the variable, set the Data
Source's ValidateExternalMetadata property to False.
You may have to open the data source with the Advanced Editor and
create Output columns manually.
I have a Table full of players. Each of these players can have a list of Items that they own. What I need to do is store that list of items for each player. Each item has an ID which is unique.
What I want to do is store an array of these items as a field in the Player Table. Does anyone know how this could be accomplished?
You can either go database route and create table of "ItemId to PlayerId" and query all items for given player by ID.
Or you can serialize data in XML/byte array using default .Net serialization and than dump it in BLOB field of "playerId to PlayerBLOB" table (XML/text can also be stored as text field - will be more readable).
You can store it as a delimited text. BUT! store it as xml instead, this will allow you to store complex weapon list and configuration in a column.