SQLIS | The Script Component as a Transformation

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SQL Server Integration Services - SSIS

The Script Component as a Transformation
By Allan Mitchell 2 ago 2004 14:00

In this article we are going to assume a few things about the reader as we want to concentrate as much as possible on the Script Component itself and not the peripheral stuff The things we will assume are: You are happy with adding a Data Flow task to the designer in Workflow You are happy to configure an OLE-DB Source adapter You are comfortable with configuring mappings in the Destination adapter As usual we will show you a graphic of the Data Flow once it is completed so we know that if yours resembles ours at the end then chances are we are at the same place. Here is our Data Flow completed

We are also going to want some tables and data with which to play so here is the sample we used. CREATE TABLE [TempSamplesBad] ([siteID] [int] IDENTITY (1, 1) NOT NULL ,[Readings] [varchar] (50)) INSERT TempSamplesBad(Readings) VALUES('1,9,-6,3,5,7') INSERT TempSamplesBad(Readings) VALUES('34,39,10,13,51,27') INSERT TempSamplesBad(Readings) VALUES('1,21,2,9,7,78') CREATE TABLE [TempSamplesGood] ( [siteID] [int] NOT NULL , [ReadingID] [int] NOT NULL , [ReadingDate] [smalldatetime], [Reading] [int] NULL , PRIMARY KEY ( [siteID], [ReadingID], [ReadingDate] ) ON [PRIMARY] ) ON [PRIMARY After dropping the Script component onto designer, the GUI is going to want to know how you want to use the component. CLUSTERED

For our article we want to use it as a transform. That means that it can accept 1 or more inputs and can have 1 or more outputs. This article will keep things simple and only have one of each as shown on the opening page. After hooking up our source to the Component we can then go ahead and start to configure it. The first page shows us our available inputs at the top and because we only have one then it shows only Input 0. Underneath we can see the columns available through that input and for our example we will need to check both of them.

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If we now move onto the column properties section and expand the folders we will see our columns we just checked appear in the Input Columns Folder and we will see no columns in the Output Columns folder of our only output. We want this component to process rows asynchronously so we need to set the SynchronousInputID property on the Output to 0.

Because we want to expose columns to the downstream SQL Server destination adapter then we are going to need to add some columns to our output. We need a column for each of our destination table columns. Remember to set the correct data types when adding the columns. When we're finished it should look something like this

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Now let's move on to the script section which is where all the work is done so hit Script over on the left hand side and then Design script over on the right. This is what should be awaiting us.

The only component in which we can work is ScriptMain as both BufferWrapper and ComponentWrapper are Read-Only. All we need to do now is add our code. What we need to do is loop over a row of input data extracting the multi-valued attribute values one at a time. For every value found in the column we need to add another row to the Output Buffer. In our example sample of data we had 3 input rows but will be returning 18 output rows of data. Here is the code to do that. Public Overrides Sub Input0_ProcessInputRow(ByVal Row As Input0Buffer) ' 'The Row parameter to this method is a collection of our input attributes 'We can work with this using .Net and add to the Output our data. 'See the following 'Read our comma delimited rows into an array Dim arr() As String = Row.Readings.Split(","c) Dim iReadingCount As Integer = 1 'we loop around on the same row so long as there are

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'delimited values to be extracted For i As Integer = 0 To arr.Length - 1 With Output0Buffer 'add a row to the output buffer .AddRow() 'Set the values of each of our output buffer columns .SiteID = Row.siteID .ReadingID = iReadingCount .DateOfReading = System.DateTime.Now .Reading = CType(arr(i), Integer) 'Increase the reading count by 1 iReadingCount += 1 End With Next End Sub This component is really powerful and will have a huge amount of uses.

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Comentarios (8)

11/12/2008 03:17:10 p.m. #

Hi Allan, I am new to SSIS. I am having trouble trying to use an excel connection manager that has parameter in the ExcelFilePath. The Excel connection manager works fine in Sql tasks. I think that the connection with parameter is not working with the Excel Destination because we have to select the name of the Excel Sheet. When we are in designing, the variable doesn't have a value so the task can't find the file to get the name of the sheet. Is there another way to pass the name of the sheet without having to select it? Do you know if I could solve this problem with a script component? Where can I get more information about it? I posted a question in the Microsoft Discussion Group: Using Parameters in Connection Managers in SQL Server Integration Services. Any ideas? Thanks Daniela Daniela
12/12/2008 06:17:03 a.m. #

So the thing is Daniella SSIS will need to know about the connection at design time to be able to do its work. I typically use a local version of the exact same structure and type so i can do my designing and then I expression the CM. if the variable does not hold a value in this case yes SSIS gets upset. Have a look at a property called "Delay Validation" http://www.sqlis.com/post/What-is-Validation.aspx This tells SSIS that the Data Flow Task/Cm will be ready by the time you get there but not yet. Allan Mitchell
10/06/2009 02:59:07 p.m. #

Thanks for the excellent article. I had been googling for the last 3 days for a suitable SSIS Scripting example and luckily I came across this. Keep up the good work. FS fs
24/06/2009 02:40:00 p.m. #

Hi Allan, You are doing a great job. Thanks a million. JJ Jeswanth

11/09/2010 05:34:49 p.m. #

Hi Allan, I need to do the same string separation thing in ssis 2008 and done similar to what you have mentioned except that I am using c#.net. The problem I am facing is all these components (source-script tran-destination) gets successfully completed but the data flow task fails with error "[SSIS.Pipeline] Error: component "Script component" (48) failed the post-execute phase and returned error code 0x80004002". Could you please help me out in this? Thanks, Ramchandra Ramchandra
23/03/2011 08:55:33 a.m. #

Hi Allan, here I am transfering data from excel file to Database file in SSIS2008r2 using package in BIDS my input: I have an Excel File as shown below Emp_name Salary ram 60k sam 45K my output: i want table as shown below Emp_name Salary ram 60000 sam 45000 please guide me how to do scripting for the above challege, please let know any other ways to completes this job Thanks Sekhar C Sekhar C

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