I am trying to import a file, source here and selections here (select all fields and select "Pilkkueroteltu (otsikollinen)" and then click Jatka to download), with two header rows, " as text qualifier, comma as a field separator and with UTF-8 format. I am unable to do this in Micsosoft Server SQL Management Studio. I will focus now only on the text qualifier where " does not work (only reading the first quote as text qualifier).
where I am unable to specify the column separator, no idea why this is occurring.
Update 1
Refresh/Reset buttons fixed the initial preview but I am getting the following preview error in the step Select Source Tables and Views later.
Update 2
I get the LocaleID error The LocaleID 11 is not installed on this system.
(SQL Server Import and Export Wizard). I am getting the same error despite Locale/Code page settings, what is causing this?
How to specify the text qualifier in the MSMM?
I tried to replicate your scene. Very first, I had to delete first heading entry eg : "Kuntien avainluvut 1987-2016"
Please see : sample image
Column delimited is: ,
Might not be accurate answer or different from something which you expect, but by applying above settings, I could import data through SSMS2012
edit : based on comments.
Here is the detailed steps :
next,
next, you need to change column width of first column as it gave me data truncate error
next,
I have also got a dtsx package for the same, but I don't know how can I share it with you here.
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This should be simple but it's just not working. I have a list of records that I want to display in the terminal without anything besides the list of record keys. No Headers, page gaps, etc. The problem is I can't get rid of the page gaps that keep chopping up my list.
SORT INVENTORY HDR.SUPP COL.HDR.SUPP NO.PAGE NO.SPLIT COUNT.SUP
You need to change your TERM settings, ignore the 'type' option.
Increase the TERM 'B' (HELP TERM) to the total number of records you are returning.
For example if the report contains 100 records, you enter:
: TERM [to get default settings]
: TERM 80,100,132,60
: run LIST/SORT
: TERM A,B,C,D [ use values from first TERM ]
You need to run the term command prior to running your select.
Just in case you're trying to get this list of bare keys so you can copy/paste it somewhere else (like Excel), I'll throw out another option that may be helpful and save some scrolling:
:sort INVENTORY TO DELIM 9 /tmp/inventory.txt
Will run your command and dump the output (tab-delimited, though that's irrelevant with only one field) to a file in the tmp directory.
:UDT.OPTIONS 91 ON
Is helpful if you're dumping dates, numbers or anything that needs output formatting.
UDT Options Command reference describes that:
UDT.OPTIONS 91 U_LIST_TO_CONV
affects saved queries on
data that is defined in the dictionary with a conversion code. For
example, when a date is defined as D4, the internal date is 9611,
which the conversion code translates as 04/24/94. UniData does not
convert the data before it saves UniQuery results to an ASCII file.
With UDT.OPTIONS 91, you can force the conversion before UniData saves
the ASCII file.
How do you Edit a (binary EBCDIC) Mainframe file in the RecordEditor with out a Cobol Copybook.
How do you generate Java code to read the file using the RecordEditor.
Note: This is an attempt to split a question that is far to broad to give meaningful answer to
into a series of simpler Question and Answer's.
Try and avoid editing a binary file with a Cobol Copybook if at all possible. This should only be attempted as a last resort !!!.
Try and get
that Cobol copybook (or some field layout document) for the file !!!
Some general advise:
It is feasible when dealing with 10 / 20 fields in a record but not if there a thousands of fields in a Record.
Take your time do not rush the process. Try and get each step correct before moving on
Finally upgrade to the latest version of the RecordEditor (currently 0.98.4)
This process will also work for normal Text file as well
RecordEditor Layout Wizard
To start the wizard select option Record Layouts >>> Layout Wizard.
File Structure screen
The file structure screen has 3 purposes:
Get the File structure - It could be Fixed Width, VB, Windows/Unix Text file
Get the Record-Length (if it is a fixed width file).
Get the font (character-set / encoding)
The RecordEditor will try and work this out for you
Field Selection Screen
The RecordEditor will try and work out where fields start and end but
it is not perfect. You need to carefully check and correct its choices
On this screen, the fields are displayed in alternating colors
you create/delete a field by clicking on
use the Clear Fields button clear all the fields
you can change what field-types to search for using the various check box's (e.g. Mainframe Zones Decimal)
The Add Fields will do another field search
Field Definition screen
On this screen you define the field names and Types. You may need to go back to the **Field Selection Screen* to adjust the fields
Editing the file
Once the Record Layout has been defined, it can be used on the open file screen
Generating Java code
When editing your file, you can generate java~JRecord code to read the file
by selecting Generate >>> Java >>> ....
You can the enter a package-id + generate options:
and finally your sample java code is generated to read / write the
file.
I am trying to show images for products inside a basic report. The image needs to be dynamic, meaning the image should change based on the SKU value.
Right now I am inserting an image into a table, setting to external, and i've tried:
=Fields!URL.Value
=http://externalwebservername/sku= & Fields!SKU.Value
="http://externalwebservername/sku=" & Fields!SKU.Value
I do not get any images in my table.
My stored proc has all the data, including a URL with the image I wan't to show. Here is a sample of what the URL looks like:
http://externalwebservername/sku=123456
If I enter the URL in the field without "=" it will show that ONE image only.
How should I set up the expression to properly show the external image based on a dynamic URL? Running SQL 2016
Alan's answer should work, but in our environment we have strict proxy/firewall rules, so the two servers could not contact each other.
Instead we are navigating to the file stored on our storage system.
We altered the URL column to point to file path in the stored procedure. Insert image, set Source to External and Value set to [URL].
URL= file://server\imagepath.jpg
As long as the account executing the report has permissions to access the URLs then your 3rd expression should have worked.
I put together a simple example as follows.
I created a new blank report then added a Data Source. It doesn't matter where this points, we won't use it directly.
Then I created a dataset (Dataset1) with the following SQL to give me list of image names.
SELECT '350x120' AS suffix
UNION SELECT '200x100'
UNION SELECT '500x500'
Actually, these are just parameters for the website http://placehold.it/ which will generate images based on the size you request, but that's not relevant for this exercise.
We'll be showing three images from the following URLs
http://placehold.it/350x120
http://placehold.it/200x100
http://placehold.it/500x500
Next, create a table, I used 3 columns to give me more testing options. Set the DataSetName to DataSet1 if it isn't already.
In the first column the expression is just =Fields!suffix.Value
In the second column I added an image, set it's source property to External and the Value to ="http://placehold.it/" & Fields!suffix.Value
I then added a 3rd column with the same expression as the image Value so I could see what was being used as the image URL. I also added an action that goes to the same URL, just to check the URL did not have any unprintable characters in it that might cause a problem.
The basic report design looks like this.
The rendered result looks like this.
I am trying to add fields from VB.Net class file to SQL database, while doing "Add Migration" It is showing "startIndex cannot be larger than length of string."
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I had the same error message when i tried to make a migration. The cause in my case was an empty value for MigrationId for a particular migration in the _MigrationHistory table.
This field must have a value in the same format as the string parameter of the attribute [Migration("YYYYMMDDHHMMSS_SeedData")], which is described in the other answer.
Most of all you have some class in your data project with attribute Migration (maybe for seeding data or something similar) which name is not in expected format like this:
[Migration("YYYYMMDDHHMMSS_SeedData")]
Adjust the migration name to be in YYYYMMDDHHMMSS_Description format to fix the error startIndex cannot be larger than length of string.
I'm immporting a csv file with column headers:
ID ProductNumber ProductName
1234 A298384 Whatchamacallit
3949 A293939 Whatchamacallit_Extra
I only need the ID and ProductNumber, when I map the file, I set ProductName to 'ignore'
When the package runs, it errors with the mesage that ProductName will truncate. I don't
understand why its erroring if I set the mapping to 'ignor'
I've also tried to import and have included ProductName, setting the field to Nvarchar (4000), it still errors. I've checked the file, there is no product name more than 54 characters.
I'm using SQL 2005.
Any insight would be helpful
Thanks.
I assume you have some kind of "Flat File Source" as the source connection for your data flow. If so, when you click into it and view columns; is the Productname unchecked?
If you don't want to import the third column, go to advanced tab in your connection manager and delete the last row.
Another way would be to ignore the errors occuring in the error output tab in your flat file task (ingore truncation and failure), but i advice you to use what i wrote above.
Another way to fix this is to go into the Advanced section of the flat file connection manager and set the field length for the last field to something higher than the default 50 that is set for string values if you don't override. Since you say that 54 is your longest data width for that last column use at least that value.
To find where to change this, open the connection manager editor by double clicking the flat file connection. In the box on the left there are four choices "General", "Columns", "Advanced", and "Preview". You will want to click Advanced, then highlight your "ProductName" column, then in the box on the right find "OutputColumnWidth" and set it to at least 54.