I am trying to create a datagrid and export the contents to a text file using VB.NET and I am doing this inside an SSIS script task in order to automate the process to export a dynamic table to text file. I don't get any error and the files are created but the files are empty.
What am I doing wrong here in this code?
Public Sub Main()
Dim FName As String = "D:\test.TXT"
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If File.Exists(FName) Then
File.Delete(FName)
End If
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Dim myConnection As OleDbConnection = New OleDbConnection("Data Source=localhost;Provider=SQLNCLI10;Initial Catalog=AdventureWorksDW2008R2;Integrated Security=SSPI;")
Dim da As OleDbDataAdapter = New OleDbDataAdapter("Select * from Table")
Dim ds As DataSet = New DataSet
da.Fill(ds, "Test")
Dim DataGrid1 As New DataGrid
DataGrid1.DataSource = ds.DefaultViewManager
Dim DataGridView1 As New DataGridView
DataGridView1.DataSource = ds
Dim dgvc As DataGridViewCell
Dim sw As New System.IO.StreamWriter(FName)
For Each dgvr As DataGridViewRow In DataGridView1.Rows
Dim intCellCount As Integer = dgvr.Cells.Count
Dim intCounter As Integer = 1
For Each dgvc In dgvr.Cells()
If intCounter <> intCellCount Then
sw.Write(dgvc.Value.ToString & "|")
Else
sw.WriteLine(dgvc.Value.ToString)
End If
intCounter += 1
Next
Next
Dts.TaskResult = ScriptResults.Success
End Sub
Here is a possible way of exporting the tables of different structure to flat file using Script Task
. This example will export two tables containing different fields and data to a flat file using Script Task. In order to export the data, you can use the DataReader
instead of using the DataGrid
. There could be other possible ways to do this.
Step-by-step process:
- Create three tables named
dbo.TablesList
, dbo.Source1
and dbo.Source2
using the scripts given under SQL Scripts section.
- Populate the tables
dbo.TablesList
, dbo.Source1
and `dbo.Source2`` with data shown in screenshot #1.
- On the SSIS package's
Connection manager
, create an OLE DB connection
named SQLServer to connect to the SQL Server instance as shown in screenshot #2.
- In the package, create 4 variables as shown in screenshot #3.
- In the Control Flow, place an
Execute SQL Task
, a Foreach Loop Container
and a Script Task
within the Foreach loop container
as shown in screenshot #4.
- Configure the
Execute SQL task
as shown in screenshots #5 and #6.
- Configure the
Foreach Loop container
as shown in screenshots #7 and #8.
- Replace the Main method inside the Script Task with the code given under the section
Script Task Code
.
- Screenshot #9 shows package execution.
- Screenshots #10 - #12 show the files exported from SSIS using Script Task code.
Hope that helps.
SQL Scripts:
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[Source1](
[Id] [int] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL,
[ItemNumber] [varchar](20) NOT NULL,
[ItemName] [varchar](50) NOT NULL,
CONSTRAINT [PK_Source1] PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED ([Id] ASC)) ON [PRIMARY]
GO
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[Source2](
[Id] [int] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL,
[Country] [varchar](20) NOT NULL,
[StateProvince] [varchar](50) NOT NULL,
CONSTRAINT [PK_Source2] PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED ([Id] ASC)) ON [PRIMARY]
GO
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[TablesList](
[Id] [int] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL,
[TableName] [varchar](50) NOT NULL,
[FilePath] [varchar](255) NOT NULL,
CONSTRAINT [PK_Tables] PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED ([Id] ASC)) ON [PRIMARY]
GO
Script Task Code: (Use the code given below to replace the Main() method in your Script task)
VB Main() method code that can be used in SSIS 2005 and above
:
Public Sub Main()
Dim varCollection As Variables = Nothing
Dts.VariableDispenser.LockForRead("User::TableName")
Dts.VariableDispenser.LockForRead("User::FileName")
Dts.VariableDispenser.LockForRead("User::Delimiter")
Dts.VariableDispenser.GetVariables(varCollection)
Dim fileName As String = varCollection("User::FileName").Value.ToString()
Dim query As String = "SELECT * FROM " & varCollection("User::TableName").Value.ToString()
Dim delimiter As String = varCollection("User::Delimiter").Value.ToString()
Dim writer As StreamWriter = Nothing
Dim connection As OleDbConnection = New OleDbConnection(Dts.Connections("SQLServer").ConnectionString)
Dim command As OleDbCommand = Nothing
Dim reader As OleDbDataReader = Nothing
Try
If File.Exists(fileName) Then
File.Delete(fileName)
End If
connection.Open()
command = New OleDbCommand(query, connection)
reader = command.ExecuteReader()
If reader.HasRows Then
writer = New System.IO.StreamWriter(fileName)
Dim row As Integer = 0
While reader.Read()
Dim header As Integer = 0
Dim counter As Integer = 0
Dim fieldCount As Integer = reader.FieldCount - 1
If row = 0 Then
While header <= fieldCount
If header <> fieldCount Then
writer.Write(reader.GetName(header).ToString() & delimiter)
Else
writer.WriteLine(reader.GetName(header).ToString())
End If
header += 1
End While
End If
While counter <= fieldCount
If counter <> fieldCount Then
writer.Write(reader(counter).ToString() & delimiter)
Else
writer.WriteLine(reader(counter).ToString())
End If
counter += 1
End While
row += 1
End While
End If
Catch ex As Exception
Throw ex
Finally
connection.Close()
writer.Close()
End Try
Dts.TaskResult = ScriptResults.Success
End Sub
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Why don't you use an OLEDB source component, put your table query in there and then output it to a flat file writer in SSIS instead of using a script component? This blog post illustrates how to do this.