We used to face some problems like, while migrating data from excel to sql server error occurs due to lengthy data.
SSIS Excel Data Source: Error with output column “Comments” (5691) on output “Excel Source Output” (5596). The column status returned was: “Text was truncated or one or more characters had no match in the target code page.”
Reason for this error:
1. The error is due to the lengthy data in the excel.
2. SSIS has an inbuilt logic to scan the data in the spread sheet. It will scan the first 8 rows and based on that it will written a logic to build the table's logic for the package. If your lengthy data in not in the 8 row then your ssis wont respond it.
Considering am having a column named "Name"
First 8 rows is of length <255
9th row is of length > 255.
While executing the package you will get the above error, its because your input value will be truncated and SSIS wont allow for that. In this case,
Two types of logics can be followed,
Option1 : Its tricky one, just copy the 9th row to the top (may be as 1 row).Now try to create your package using import/export wizard. Your ssis will create column with width nvarchar(Max) which will accept upto 2 GB.
Option2: Change the Preparation SQL task query, change the data type as varchar(Max) and modify the excel source ->advanced editor and change the output columns type and length and external column type and length.
Happy Learning!!!
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Venkatesan Prabu .J
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SQL Server Interview questions - Part 1
What is the significance of NULL value and why should we avoid permitting null values?
Null means no entry has been made. It implies that the value is either unknown or undefined.We should avoid permitting null values because Column with NULL values can't have PRIMARY KEY constraints. Certain calculations can be inaccurate if NULL columns are involved.
What is SQL whats its uses and its component ?
The Structured Query Language (SQL) is foundation for all relational database systems. Most of the large-scale databases use the SQL to define all user and administrator interactions. It enable us to retrieve the data from based on our exact requirement. We will be given a flexibility to store the data in our own format.
The DML component of SQL comprises four basic statements:
* SELECT to get rows from tables
* UPDATE to update the rows of tables
* DELETE to remove rows from tables
* INSERT to add new rows to tables
What is DTS in SQL Server ?
Data Transformation Services is used to transfer the data from one source to our required destination. Considering am having some data in sql server and I need to transfer the data to Excel destination. Its highly possible with dialogue based tool called Data Transformation services. More customization can be achieved using SSIS. A specialized tool used to do such migration works.
What is the difference between SQL and Pl/Sql ?
Straight forward. SQL is a single statement to finish up our work.Considering, I need some data from a particular table. “Select * from table” will fetch the necessary information. Where as I need to do some row by row processing. In that case, we need to go for Procedural Logic / SQL.
What is the significance of NULL value and why should we avoid permitting null values?
Null means no entry has been made. It implies that the value is either unknown or undefined.We should avoid permitting null values because Column with NULL values can't have PRIMARY KEY constraints. Certain calculations can be inaccurate if NULL columns are involved.
Difference between primary key and Unique key?
Both constraints will share a common property called uniqueness. The data in the column should be unique. The basic difference is,
· Primary key won’t allow null value. Whereas, unique key will accept null value but only one null value.
· On creating primary key, it will automatically format the data inturn creates clustered index on the table. Whereas, this characteristics is not associated with unique key.
· Only one primary key can be created for the table. Any number of Unique key can be created for the table.
Null means no entry has been made. It implies that the value is either unknown or undefined.We should avoid permitting null values because Column with NULL values can't have PRIMARY KEY constraints. Certain calculations can be inaccurate if NULL columns are involved.
What is SQL whats its uses and its component ?
The Structured Query Language (SQL) is foundation for all relational database systems. Most of the large-scale databases use the SQL to define all user and administrator interactions. It enable us to retrieve the data from based on our exact requirement. We will be given a flexibility to store the data in our own format.
The DML component of SQL comprises four basic statements:
* SELECT to get rows from tables
* UPDATE to update the rows of tables
* DELETE to remove rows from tables
* INSERT to add new rows to tables
What is DTS in SQL Server ?
Data Transformation Services is used to transfer the data from one source to our required destination. Considering am having some data in sql server and I need to transfer the data to Excel destination. Its highly possible with dialogue based tool called Data Transformation services. More customization can be achieved using SSIS. A specialized tool used to do such migration works.
What is the difference between SQL and Pl/Sql ?
Straight forward. SQL is a single statement to finish up our work.Considering, I need some data from a particular table. “Select * from table” will fetch the necessary information. Where as I need to do some row by row processing. In that case, we need to go for Procedural Logic / SQL.
What is the significance of NULL value and why should we avoid permitting null values?
Null means no entry has been made. It implies that the value is either unknown or undefined.We should avoid permitting null values because Column with NULL values can't have PRIMARY KEY constraints. Certain calculations can be inaccurate if NULL columns are involved.
Difference between primary key and Unique key?
Both constraints will share a common property called uniqueness. The data in the column should be unique. The basic difference is,
· Primary key won’t allow null value. Whereas, unique key will accept null value but only one null value.
· On creating primary key, it will automatically format the data inturn creates clustered index on the table. Whereas, this characteristics is not associated with unique key.
· Only one primary key can be created for the table. Any number of Unique key can be created for the table.
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SQL Server Interview Question - Part 2
What is normalization?
Normalization is the basic concept used in designing a database. Its nothing but, an advise given to the database to have minimal repetition of data, highly structured, highly secured, easy to retrieve. In high level definition, the Process of organizing data into tables is referred to as normalization.
What is a stored procedure:
Stored procedures are precompiled T-SQL statements combined to perform a single task of several tasks. Its basically like a Macro so when you invoke the Stored procedure, you actually run a set of statements. As, its precompiled statement, execution of Stored procedure is compatatively high when compared to an ordinary T-SQL statement.
What is the difference between UNION ALL Statement and UNION ?
The main difference between UNION ALL statement and UNION is UNION All statement is much faster than UNION,the reason behind this is that because UNION ALL statement does not look for duplicate rows, but on the other hand UNION statement does look for duplicate rows, whether or not they exist.
Example for Stored Procedure?
They are three kinds of stored procedures,1.System stored procedure – Start with sp_2. User defined stored procedure – SP created by the user.3. Extended stored procedure – SP used to invoke a process in the external systems.Example for system stored proceduresp_helpdb - Database and its propertiessp_who2 – Gives details about the current user connected to your system. sp_renamedb – Enable you to rename your database
What is a trigger?
Triggers are precompiled statements similar to Stored Procedure. It will automatically invoke for a particular operation. Triggers are basically used to implement business rules.
What is a view?
If we have several tables in a db and we want to view only specific columns from specific tables we can go for views. It would also suffice the needs of security some times allowing specfic users to see only specific columns based on the permission that we can configure on the view. Views also reduce the effort that is required for writing queries to access specific columns every time.
What is an Index?
When queries are run against a db, an index on that db basically helps in the way the data is sorted to process the query for faster and data retrievals are much faster when we have an index.
What are the types of indexes available with SQL Server?
There are basically two types of indexes that we use with the SQL ServerClustered -
1. It will format the entire table, inturn physically sort the table.
2. Only one clustered index can be created for a table.
3. Data will be located in the leaf level.
4. By default, primary key will create clustered index on the table.
Non-Clustered Index
1. It wont touch the structure of the table.
2. It forms an index table as reference to the exact data.
3. A reference to the data will be located in the leaf level.
4. For a table, we can create 249 non clustered index.
Happy Learning!!!
Regards,
Venkatesan Prabu .J
SQL Interview question
Extent Vs Page?
Pages are low level unit to store the exact data in sql server. Basically, the data will be stored in the mdf, ldf, ndf files. Inturn, pages are logical units available in sql server.The size of the page is 8KB.
Eight consecutive pages will form an extent 8 * 8KB = 64KB.
Thus I/O level operation will be happening at pages level.The pages will hold a template information at the start of each page (header of the page).
They are,
1. page number,
2. page type,
3. the amount of free space on the page,
4. the allocation unit ID of the object that owns the page.
Extents will be classifed into two types,
1. Uniform extents
2. Mixed extents
Uniform Extents:It occupied or used by a single object. Inturn, a single object will hold the entire 8 pages.Mixed
Extents:Mulitple objects will use the same extent. SQL Server will allow a max of eight objects to use a shared extent.
Property of SQL Server :Initally if an object is created, sql server will allocate the object to the mixed extent and once if the size reaches 8 pages and more... immediately, a new uniform extent will be provided for that particular object.
Herecomes, our fragmentation and reindexing concepts.
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6 comments:
Very useful Venkat.I had face the problem one year before.Now i got the solution..Thank u for your solution..i hope it will lot of people.
Could you elaborate on your second solution? what do you mean by Preparation SQL task query? I am also facing this issue for both imports and exports
It works very well. Thanks a lot for your comment, it was very usefull.
Thanks again!
Thank you, this was very helpful. My import to SQL Server from an Excel spreadhsheet worked perfectly with this solution.
Thanks for this..
This was my problem. First 8 rows had text which was <255 characters
2. SSIS has an inbuilt logic to scan the data in the spread sheet. It will scan the first 8 rows and based on that it will written a logic to build the table's logic for the package. If your lengthy data in not in the 8 row then your ssis wont respond it.
Thanks Venkat for your help - This is amazing
--Saurabh
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