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I have an SSIS Package with a Script Task that creates an Excel file on disk and populates it with data from a SQL Stored Procedure (using Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel). This works great when testing and when running the deployed package manually through the SSIS Catalog, but when I schedule the task to run automatically through SQL Server Agent, the Package fails in the Script Task step. I have the Job running as a Proxy account that is the same as the account I'm logged into the server with when testing (and the same as the account that works when manually running the packages).
My understanding is that even though the job is running using a Proxy, any desktop interaction occurs within the Profile context of the SQL Server Agent login. Since that profile isn't actively logged in, the interaction fails. Digging in more, there is a bool System Variable in the package called "InteractiveMode" that is set to "False". I have a feeling that if I could switch that to True, everything would be hunky dorey. Trouble is, that variable is only accessible to my Script Task as "ReadOnly"...
Is there any way to set the System:InteractiveMode Variable in an SSIS package manually or programatically at runtime? Please help! I'm having to run these scheduled jobs manually for now, which is a big pain.
Thanks.
I had this problem a few months ago and it turned out that the execution options needed to be set to use 32 bit runtime. If you're using SQL Server 2008 R2, you can open your job and double click on the step. It's under the Execution Options tab.
If you continue to have errors, you may want to consider changing the package so that it uses a file system task to create/rename the excel document and then a Data Flow Task to move the data from your stored procedure to your excel document. Depending on your data, you may need to add a Data Conversion step in between. Here's a good article on the topic: http://www.mssqltips.com/sqlservertip/3046/sql-server-integration-services-data-type-conversion-testing/
Edit:
I haven't used SQL Server 2012 yet, but according to MSDN, it looks like the option is under the Configuration tab. Here's their article: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg471507(v=sql.110).aspx
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Recently I was tasked to move two of our SQL Server Agent Jobs from one server to another as the old server is getting retired. These jobs run perfectly on the old server. Keep in mind I was not the one who created the SSIS packages that these jobs use. I also consider myself to have basic knowledge of SSIS.
I don't have permission to manipulate our servers so I had to work with our IT department to get this work done. I sent the IT department the two .dtsx files for the packages and they setup copies of the two jobs on the new server.
When I run these two jobs on the new server, they complete successfully but they run very quickly (compared to the old server's jobs) and I notice while looking in the message logs that they're writing 0 rows to my Excel output files.
There are no errors or even warnings that differ from the message logs I see for them on the old server where they're working perfectly so I'm at a loss for what's going on. I'm assuming I missed something very obvious like having to modify the jobs in Visual Studio in some way to account for what server they actually live on as I literally sent the same exact .dtsx files that are used on the old server (I was assuming what server the jobs live on doesn't matter from the SSIS/Visual Studio perspective because they don't pull any data from either one).
Anyway I'm just spitballing what the problem might be. Any help would be appreciated.
I'm currently updating all of our ETLs using Visual Studio 2015 (made in BIDS 2008) and redeploying them to a new reporting server running on SQL Server 2016 (originally 2008R2).
While updating one of the ETLs and trying to run on the new server I got this error:
The package execution failed. The step failed.
Sometimes it also produces this error:
Source: Load Fact Table SSIS.Pipeline Description: "Copy To Fact
Table" failed validation and returned validation status
"VS_NEEDSNEWMETADATA".
I've tried deleting and re-adding the OLEDB Destination, connection strings and opened up the column mappings to refresh the meta data. I also recreated the whole data flow task but I'm still getting the same error.
The package runs fine on my local machine.
UPDATE:
I started taking the package apart and running only pieces of it to try and narrow down which part was failing. It seemed to be failing on loading into the staging table but I couldn't find out why.
I eventually decided to just try and re-create the whole thing. After re-creating the entire package, still no luck. The picture below is from the event viewer on the server itself but it didn't give me any new information.
Package error from event viewer
I have tried all the solutions provided above and the other sites. Nothing worked.
I got a suggestion from my friend Which worked for me.
Here are the steps:
Right click on the Source/Target Data flow component.
Go to Advanced Editor -> Component Properties
Find ValidateExternalMetadata and set it to False.
Try your luck. This is a pathetic issue and left me clueless for 2 days.
I finally found the issue and here's how I did it.
Because the error messages I was getting from SSMS weren't very insightful I first opened up my remote desktop and logged into the server. Then I went to Administrative Tools>Event Viewer and then Windows Logs>Application to see if the failed event would provide greater detail.
It didn't give me much still.
The next step I took was to run the package from the command line because the messages should be more verbose. Opened up cmd, changed directory to the one my package was in and then...
DTEXEC /FILE YourPackageName.dtsx
Finally, the error message here showed a missing column in the tables the package was trying to write to. I added those columns and voila!
As stated in comments,
if it runs ok in your development environment, then the problem isn't with the package, it's with the scheduled job on the server. Try recreating that.
If that doesn't work,
It seems like the server has a cached instance of the package it's using instead of the updated one. Try renaming your package and creating a new job with the new package name and see if that works.
If that doesn't work,
all I can recommend at that point is to cut the package down until it succeeds, then add the next step that fails.
Sounds like from your solution the development environment is more forgiving of schema updates than the deployed solution. Glad you were able to resolve, eliminating clutter helps.
I had the same problem and my issue was a difference between two environments, the same field in the same table once was written with a capital and once not. So the name was the same, but with this small difference (e.g. isActive vs IsActive).
This came from a refactoring effort, where we used VS database publish that did not updated the field name.
Have you tried deleting and re-creating the source? When I get this I can generally modify OK any object that has the error but have to delete and rebuild the paths between them, however sometimes I have to delete everything in the data flow and re-create it.
A Proxy for SSIS Package Execution should be created under the SQL Server Agent. You should then change your job step (or steps) to Run As the Proxy you've created.
I had your same problem some time ago and the proxy fixed it.
Forgive me if you've already tried this.
It is very common to get that message when 2 columns in the source file are being inserted into the same field of the table.
i.e.
My text file has twice "neighborhood" (same label for different columns) and my table has "neighborhood" and "neighborhoodb" (notice the "b" at the end). The import will try to import both text columns into the field "neighborhood" and ignore the "neighborhoodb" field, it will fail with the "VS_NEEDSNEWMETADATA" error.
Re-creating the job worked for me. Some cached version of the job may have been causing the VS_NEEDSNEWMETADATA error. The package was executing correctly but it was failing, when it was executed by an agent job.
This ended up being a permissions issue for me. The OLE DB Source was using a stored procedure that selected from a SQL view. This view joined to a table in another database and unfortunately the proxy account the SQL Agent job step was running the package under did not have SELECT permission to the table in that database. This is why the package ran fine in Visual Studio but not from a job when deployed to the server. I found the root cause of the error by taking the SELECT statement out of the stored procedure and putting it directly in the Source Query box of the OLE DB Source control which caused it to finally return the 'SELECT permission denied' error message. This error was apparently hidden from SSIS since the proxy account DID have execute permission on the stored procedure.
It works for me after changing the ValidateExternalMetadata to false. I was transferring the data from MSSQL database to MySQL database. Changed "ADO NET Destination".
You may need to strongly type your Source Query.
Example:
If your DestinationDB has a FullName field Nvarchar(255)
and in your source query you have
select firstname + lastname as FullName from...
Try this:
Select CONVERT(NVARCHAR(255),firstname + lastname) as Fullname from...
So if you are going from db to db and both are nvarchar(255) I don't have this issue, but if you are concatenating fields in your query specify the data type and length.
This error can also occur when an entire SSIS project needs to be redeployed rather than just one of the packages (for VS versions that allow deployment of a single package in a multi-package project), particularly when a project connection has been changed or added. For example, if you've added or removed columns from a flat-file project connection. In that case, you need to deploy the entire project to push out the updated project connection properties. This can be true even if the project only has one package in it. In VS Solution Explorer, rather than click on the package name to deploy, select the bolded project name at the top, and then click deploy.
I am checking one SSIS job execution report, which shows me the below report:
The most recent one succeeded, but when you take a look at ID:217583, it is still running and never finished (duration keeps increasing), and when I check the job activity in sql server agent, that execution should failed before, the reason why I said that was because the start time matched. Here is the job history in sql server agent :
So I assume this job execution failed but for some mystery reason, it still shows (or running) in the background with 'running ' status.
Does anybody have any ideas? I tried to EXEC msdb..sp.stop_jobscommand, but cannot locate that job ID.
Can anybody tell me what was really happened? Is this job still running somewhere else? If so, how to locate that job execution and stop it? Or how to let the report does not show this weird record anymore?
Thx in advance :)
If your are executing this package as a job from the SSISDB, you can use the stop operation procedure as follows.
USE SSISDB
GO
EXEC [catalog].[stop_operation] 217583
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh213131.aspx here is a reference to stopping operations. In case this link breaks, ...
The SSISDB database stores execution history in internal tables that are not visible to users. However it exposes the information that you need through public views that you can query. It also provides stored procedures that you can call to perform common tasks related to packages.
Typically you manage Integration Services objects on the server in SQL Server Management Studio. However you can also query the database views and call the stored procedures directly, or write custom code that calls the managed API. SQL Server Management Studio and the managed API query the views and call the stored procedures to perform many of their tasks. For example, you can view the list of Integration Services packages that are currently running on the server, and request packages to stop if you have to.
Viewing the List of Running Packages
You can view the list of packages that are currently running on the server in the Active Operations dialog box. For more information, see Active Operations Dialog Box.
For information about the other methods that you can use to view the list of running packages, see the following topics.
Transact-SQL access
To view the list of packages that are running on the server, query the view, catalog.executions (SSISDB Database) for packages that have a status of 2.
Programmatic access through the managed API
See the Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.IntegrationServices namespace and its classes.
Stopping a Running Package
You can request a running package to stop in the Active Operations dialog box. For more information, see Active Operations Dialog Box.
For information about the other methods that you can use to stop a running package, see the following topics.
Transact-SQL access
To stop a package that is running on the server, call the stored procedure, catalog.stop_operation (SSISDB Database).
Programmatic access through the managed API
See the Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.IntegrationServices namespace and its classes.
Viewing the History of Packages That Have Run
To view the history of packages that have run in Management Studio, use the All Executions report. For more information on the All Executions report and other standard reports, see Reports for the Integration Services Server.
For information about the other methods that you can use to view the history of running packages, see the following topics.
Transact-SQL access
To view information about packages that have run, query the view, catalog.executions (SSISDB Database).
Programmatic access through the managed API
See the Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.IntegrationServices namespace and its classes.
I am creating scripts of a SQL Server 2012 database because I cannot backup the database to a local drive. I understand how to create the script but at the end of the process the application seems to get stuck at the Save to file = Not Run.
The database is a huge database, but it appears that not much data is being written to the drive.
This appears to be a bug in SQL Server 11.0.6020 tools.
There is no trace in event log or server log, the script generator wizard just stops at the last step (which is writing the script to the destination, which can be a file or a new script window - either remains in status "not run" forever, with "Cancel" as the only possible user action).
Some experimenting showed that it indeed depends on script size.
I was not able to reproduce the problem on any lower or newer version of Microsoft SQL Server.
The solution is annoying: click yourself through the wizard multiple times, first scripting only database definition in parts:
datatypes, functions and tables
then only views, and
then only procedures
You can later concatenate the three resulting files if that is a requirement.
This approach will not help if any of the three parts alone is bigger than the (unknown) treshold. Eventually, script the data, selecting only smaller sets of tables for each run.
As mentioned in one of the comments on the original post, this is still an issue with SQL Server Management Studio v17.9.1 To work around it, I was able to use the "Single file per object" option. I definitely would have preferred a single file, but at least it worked this way. There was still a bit of a delay between the time that the status for all database objects showed Completed and the time that the "Save to file" line item changed from "Not Run" to Completed.
I'm using SQL Server Management Studio version 18.6. I wanted to export to a query in a new window:
But it resulted in it saying "Not run":
And a few seconds later, it said "Error":
Instead, what worked, was to save the result to a script file:
And here is the successful result:
I have a database on one server that I need to copy to another server. I can do this manually using the Export Data task, which is fine for a one time export, but I would like to speed this up as it is going to be repeated.
The database will always contain the same set of tables, I just need to get a copy of this database with it's tables and their data from one server to another.
I'd like to create some sort of reusable tool that allows you to specify the source and target database servers and then copies this specific database from one to another. Is this possible?
The Export Data task in SQL 2005 and later uses SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) under the hood. You can save the package you're already using and run it on a schedule or on demand. You can also edit it (once it is saved) using the Business Intelligence Development Studio (BIDS).
At the end of the Export wizard (on the "Save and Run Package" screen), you can tick the "Save SSIS Package" check-box to store the package either within SQL server or on the file system. The file system is probably simpler.
Once you have the package you can execute it from the command line using the dtexec tool, or from a SQL Agent job using an Execute SSIS task.
SSIS is too big a subject to cover in full here - there are decent tutorials within SQL server books online if you need more details - alternatively, as another SO question if you get stuck.