I am having issues creating a good data flow from Excel Source to SQL DB in BIDS 2010. I'm using 32-bit runtime, i have windows authentication on the SQL Server. I'm trying to send the data to a table that has no relationships or constraints at all. My excel file is .xls and I've tried doing this to SS2012 and SS2008R2 databases, getting the same errors back.
Here's my Package Validation Error:
Error at Data Flow Component [SSIS.Pipeline]: "component "Source for Excel Connection Manager" (1)" failed validation and returned validation status "VS_ISBROKEN".
Error at Data Flow Component [SSIS.Pipeline]: One or more component failed validation.
Error at Data Flow Component: There were errors during task validation.
(Microsoft.DataTransformationServices.VsIntegration)
Please check at this URL, I have commented earlier today.
BIDS Package Error's on Truncate while EXPORTING to flat file
Some suggestion as well:
1) Check the Data type in excel source. If the Source data type is different Convert or cast them as it is in Database.
2) Map the column correctly. Check if there are not null field in the destination.
3) Make sure you change the Project properties to RUN64bits to FALSE
This may not relate, but I was getting a very similar error while trying to write data to Excel from global tables. Turned out to be an issue with the Connection Manager for the database. I had to set "RetainSameConnection" to True and it started working right away. Again, this may be unrelated to your issue, and this is several months later, but it could be a solution for someone else that runs into the problem.
Again this may not be the case always but for me the excel was corrupted.
I followed these steps after wasting 3 hours:
tried to open the source excel file, it didn't open and prompted the file is corrupted.
recreated the excel file from the source, saved as excel (.xlsx) file
recreated the connection manager and edited excel source
and everything works fine.
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I started experiencing an XML Parsing error with my excel workbooks that have a power pivot data model. The error looks like this:
I was able to track down the Temp files that are created by PowerPivot and open the XML file in question and it seems like the closing the </Load statement at the very end of the XML is not being generated correctly:
XML File at Line1, Column 3105 :
The very last part is suppose to be </load to closeout the loading process. if I manually change all the XML files that are effected by this manually the power pivot model connects properly like it's suppose to. But since these are Temp files they get cleared out after every session and if I reopen the workbook and try to run the model it happens again.
There are no external data sources for this model. All data sources are native to the workbook structured in tables in different sheets.
Every single XML file that is generated by this particular PowerPivot Model is having an issue with the ending <load statement.
This just started happening about 3 week ago with a model that has been running successfully for over a year. No modifications have been done to the model for over a year.
Does anyone know what is causing the creating of these temp XML files to be corrupted in this way?
Mystery solved.
The newest release of Dell Data Protection | Encryption Enterprise Edition was causing this parsing error. Once it was disabled for testing it started working just fine like before.
I have some queries in my Access database which pull data from Excel files that appear in the database as linked tables. They have worked just fine, until suddenly and inexplicably I was getting the error "External table is not in the expected format," when trying to access them.
I thought it might have to do with the fact that I was using a macro-enabled workbook, but it was fine before. I do have a mail merge set up in Word which is linked to the database, and using one of the aforementioned queries.
It turns out that the issue was due to the mail merge document. Once I saved and closed the mail merge file in Word and tried accessing the queries and tables again in Access, the error was no longer appearing.
It seems that if a Word mail merge is connected to the database, this error may appear. I am not sure as to why a more appropriate error is not appearing; after testing it seems to happen regardless of whether the linked file is a macro-enabled workbook or not.
In short, as Olivier put it, the file was locked by Word. A simple issue, but not exactly clear given the error message (unless you follow Andre's logic that the expected format is a non-locked file, hahah).
I hope this helps someone else!
My form is hooked to a query. The "not in expected format" message happens when the query is set up as a "snapshot". When I changed to "dynaset", the form started to work as expected.
There is a dataflow task,which consists of excel source and sql destination.When executing dataflow task alone it is runing good.If i execute this dataflow taks inside a a for each loop ,it gives below error
[Excel Source [17]] Error: SSIS Error Code DTS_E_OLEDBERROR. An OLE
DB error has occurred. Error code: 0x80040E37.
[Excel Source [17]] Error: Opening a rowset for "'Sheet Data$'"
failed. Check that the object exists in the database.
[SSIS.Pipeline] Error: "Excel Source" failed validation and returned
validation status "VS_ISBROKEN".
Have anybody got similar problem!?
The sheet which SSIS is trying to open in your Excel file does not exist.
I had the same problem. And as I found out the reason was the read-only property.
When I added before Data Flow Task task: File System Task where I set Excel property ReadOnly=False it started working.
Here are some screens. I hope it can help someone. :)
In my case this error was due to a referenced Named Range in the Excel book's Name Manager being deleted.
I don't know if this will help with an Excel source component, but in case it does:
To resolve this, I just had to go into the Data Flow task, into the Excel component (source component for the original poster, destination component for me), and in the 3rd drop-down, re-select the "Name of the Excel sheet:" Then the package ran without error.
I guess the tab names initially generated by the SSIS Import and Export Wizard -- tab names that matched the table names -- were TOO LONG: my "create table" step (Prep SQL task) continues to show those long tablenames, but in the spreadsheet the tab names are truncated, and in the Excel component of the Data Flow task, I had to select the spreadsheet tab name ending with "$".
(Note re' my initial answer:
In my case, I initially thought it was a problem with the mappings (re-mapping was one of the things I did, when the problem went away), but...
When it happened again, I discovered that the only necessary step was the other thing I did -- the re-selection of the Excel spreadsheet name.)
I solved this issue by creating a new sheet to the file, selecting that new one, clicking "preview" and selecting back the official one.
Seems like when you change files or something the package is still referencing the old one. Doing what I mention below will solve the issue.
I have an SSIS (super)package that consists of several (about) 40 packages, each of which has several data flow tasks, most of them loading some excel data to a sqlserver database. So I have several excel source connection managers, one per excel file.
This has always worked fine until recently : I have to change an excel source in one of my packages (a column was added in the excel which has to be loaded in the destination sqlserver table) but I cannot edit the excel source in SSIS : when I click on "columns" I get an error box "DTS_E_CANNOTACQUIRECONNECTIONFROMCONNECTIONMANAGER". So this is a design time issue, not a run time problem. I've seen a question like this one on stackoverflow but no answer. Anyone has an idea ?
I' ve already removed office 2007 and reinstalled office 2003 on my machine, but this didn't help
it has nothing to do with 64bit mode, which I've read about here
Is there some limit on the number of connection managers in ssis ?
Most of my connection managers were created with copy/paste and hence they have the same Id, although they point to different excel files. Could this be a problem ?
I should also mention that the package runs without any problems, so it's only "editing/changing" the package that doesn't work. For the moment I circumvent this problem by disabling the data flow that should change and by replacing it with a sql statement that hardcoded inserts the data from the excel into the destination table.
Maybe another intersting thing to mention : I can create a new package and add and change excel sources without problems, but then again, when I try to copy this excel source in my package, I cannot edit it.
Did you try to check the advanced options on the Source Connection?
Right click on the component and select "Show Advanced Editor..."
Select the column mappings tab and press the Refresh button.
This should point out that the XLS connection has some additional columns or that the file that you are pointing at, cannot be pre-validated at runtime.
M.
I'm not sure if this will work but try the Work Offline option in the SSIS menu in BIDS/VS. What this should do is not validate the connection before you edit the component. It might be able to get you into the component.
I recently (today, actually) got some new permissions to some SAP tables, but I'm getting permissions issues with importing them. Here's how my process looks right now:
I have an Access db that links to SAP tables via an ODBC connection.
In that same Access db, a set of spaghetti-like queries pulls & refines a modest data set (a dozen columns, few hundred rows, nothing special). I can run these queries without a problem.
An Excel file imports that data using Data->Import External Data->Import Data. I do this all the time. Except this time, I'm getting the dialog pictured below. Clicking OK doesn't seem to do anything. Clicking Cancel produces an "ODBC Connection Failure" message (or something like that).
Again, these queries can be run from Access just fine. But when I import those query results into Excel, I get this problem. I can get around it with a make-table query, but since someone else is maintaining the Access db, I'd rather not make any changes to it.
I was going thru my old unanswered questions and found this one. I think I solved this by using a staging table in Access to store the data and then later importing into Excel from that staging table.