I have a source csv file which i am loading to sql db using copy activity. In the 45th row i have a cell with this kind of data with unwanted characters.
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I tried loading the file. Its throwing error at row 45 that it has more column count than expected. I tried removing unwanted characters from this text. Then the copy actvty got executed. In source my delimiter is set as , by default. How can I handle this situation. Source csv file is in UTF8 format. in sql db i have set every column to varchar(max).
I reproduced this and got the same error when I had the same data in my 3rd row without any double quotes for the data.
If you want to use the default delimiter(,), then use double quotes(") over rows.
Target data after copy activity:
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I have a Copy data activity, where the source is SQL Server Query and sink is a blob file.
The blob file is created successfully but it doesn't have a double-quote in the header, same as the rows. Can that be configured in ADF?
Blob file:
Unfortunately, that is not possible in Azure Datafactory. As we explicitly declare the First row as header then it's going to take the first row as column names and wont be having double quotes same as rows. Because, Quote character & Escape characters is only for the rows, you can avoid having quotes in the rows as well.
Here, is the way you can have double quotes only when you again run a Copy Activity using the previous output blob file as source and sink as to another blob then it could be possible, and eliminating to declare Row as header for both source and sink datasets:
I found a better solution without creating another Copy Activity. In the Mapping section of the copy activity, just add double-quote (") on the column name.
I have a strange source CSV file where it contains a trailing column delimiter at the end of each record just before the carriage return/new line.
When ADF is previewing this data, it displays only 2 columns without issue and all the data rows. However, when using the copy activity, it fails with the following exception.
ErrorCode=DelimitedTextColumnNameNotAllowNull,'Type=Microsoft.DataTransfer.Common.Shared.HybridDeliveryException,Message=The
name of column index 3 is empty. Make sure column name is properly
specified in the header
Now I understand why it's complaining about this due to trailing delimiter, but my question is whether or not there is a way to deal with this condition? I've tried including the trailing comma in the record delimiter (,\r\n), but then it just pivots the data where all the columns become rows.
Is there a way to address this condition in copy activity?
When preview the data in dataset, it seams correct:
But actually in copy actives, the data will derived to 3 columns by the column delimiter ",", the third column is empty or NULL value. This will cause the error.
If you use Data Flow import projection from source, you can see the third column:
Just for now, copy active doesn't support modify the data schema. You must use Data flow Derived Column to create a new schema for the source. For example:
Then mapping the new column/schema to sink will solve the problem.
HTH.
Use a different encoding for your CSV. CSV utf-8 will do the trick.
The file is not importing after having created a table. The first line of code is for the table (COPY), the second line of code is for the path of the file (FROM) and the WITH I am not entirely sure if there's a prior line of code that needs to be entered for its success as its not being highlighted in pink. The importing should be going through in either the built-in tool of pgAdmin or the syntax but neither of them generates the needed output. Here are some screenshots:
So I did another table, this time focusing on a single column and ensuring that the name of the column matched on both the table and the file and it worked. The prior example had several columns that had difference in spellings of the column content in table and the file:
You can try this sequentially...
1. First create csv file. .csv file column sequence is most important.
2. Consider the below employee_info.csv file
And consider your database table employee_info table which contain (emp_id [numeric],emp_name[character],emp_sal[numeric],emp_loc [character])
Then Execute the below query
a. copy employee_info(emp_id,emp_name,emp_sal,emp_loc) from 'C:\Users\Zbook\Desktop\employee_info.csv' DELIMITERS ',' CSV;
Note: Ensure that each .csv file row value has not null. Like below...
I need to copy a text file which has confusing delimiter. I believe the delimiter is space. However, some of the column values are empty and I cannot differentiate which column which making it harder to load the data to database since the space is not indicating anything. Thus, when I try to COPY, the mapping is not right and I am getting ERROR: extra data after last expected column
I have tried to change the delimiter to comma and such, I am still getting the same error above. The below code can be used when I try to load some dummy data with proper delimiter.
COPY usm00070219(HEADREC_ID,YEAR,MONTH,DAY,HOUR,RELTIME,NUMLEV,P_SRC,NP_SRC,LAT,LON) FROM 'D:\....\USM00070219-data.txt' DELIMITER ' ';
This is example data:
It should have 11 columns but the data on the first row is only 10 and it cannot identify the empty value column. The spacings are not helpful at all!
Is there any way I can separate the columns by character size as delimiter and force the data to be divided by the size given?
COPY is not made to handle fixed-width text files. I can think of two options:
Load the file as it is into a table with a single text column using COPY. Then use regexp_split_to_array to split it into its components and inser these into another table.
You can use file_fdw to create a foreign table with a single text column like above and operate on that. That saves loading the file into the database.
There is a foreign data wrapper for fixed-width text files that you can try.
I run this
db2 "IMPORT FROM C:\my.csv OF DEL MODIFIED BY COLDEL, LOBSINFILE DATEFORMAT=\"D/MM/YYYY\" SKIPCOUNT 1 REPLACE INTO scratch.table_name"
However some of my rows have a empty date field so I get this error
SQL3191N which begins with """" does not match the user specified DATEFORMAT, TIMEFORMAT, or TIMESTAMPFORMAT. The row will be rejected.
My CSV file looks like this
"XX","25/10/1985"
"YY",""
"ZZ","25/10/1985"
I realise if I insert charater instead of a blank string I could use NULL INDICATORS paramater.
However I do not have access to change the CSV file. Is there a way to ignore import a blank string as a null?
This is an error in your input file. DB2 differentiates between a NULL and a zero-length string. If you need to have NULL dates, a NULL would have no quotes at all, like:
"AA",
If you can't change the format of the input file, you have 2 options:
Insert your data into a staging table (changing the DATE column to a char) and then using SQL to populate the ultimate target table
Write a program to parse ("fix") the input file and then import the resulting fixed data. You can often do this without having to write the entire file out to disk – your program could write to a named pipe, and the DB2 IMPORT (and LOAD) utility is capable of reading from named pipes.
I'm not aware of anything. Yes, ideally that date field should be null.
Probably the best thing to do would be load the data into a scratch/temp table where that isn't a date column - just leave it as character data (it looks like you're already using a scratch table anyways). It should be trivial after that to use a CASE statement to transform the information into a null date if the value is blank, when doing your INSERT to the real table.