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Global variables in SQL task

  • June 28, 2005 at 2:21 pm

    #186432

    I'm accessing a global variable in SQL task using the Parameters.  The only thing is, my variables are being cut off after 20 characters.  Is there a way to increase this?

    If I do a simple msgbox in ActiveX, the complete lenght is displayed.  But when I access it using SQL task, it gets cut off after 20 characters.. 

  • June 28, 2005 at 2:33 pm

    #569149

    How is this variable declared?

  • June 28, 2005 at 4:12 pm

    #569172

    if your global variable is a string type you shouldn't have any problem.

     

     

  • June 28, 2005 at 5:25 pm

    #569182

    Ya its declared as a string. 

    ActiveX can read the whole length fine

    When I add the ? to the SQL and associate an parameter to it, I only get 20 characters.

    Update table

    SET TableName = ?

    WHERE Active = 1

    If it's (?) more then 20 characters, it gets cut off.  I will double check tomorrow, but it's driving me nuts.

     

  • June 28, 2005 at 8:26 pm

    #569194

    Ahhh ... dumb question, but you never know ... what is the datatype of the field you're updating?

    As a test to rule out a SQL task problem. How about running the SQL in an ActiveXScript task?

     

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  • June 28, 2005 at 8:29 pm

    #569195

    sometimes we may forget....

    exactly what phil said, what's the datatype for TableName? 

  • June 28, 2005 at 8:35 pm

    #569198

    dito .

  • June 28, 2005 at 10:32 pm

    #569204

    The Table is nvarchar(100). 

    If I manually put in

    Table = 'blaa blaa blaa blaa'  

    It works and I get more then 20 characters.  I'll try it again tomorrow morning, maybe I over looked something dumb ?

  • June 29, 2005 at 6:23 am

    #569275

    It's always something dumb once we find it .

  • June 29, 2005 at 6:45 am

    #569284

    This is interesting...

    Here is my actually query (Two steps in 1)

    UPDATE DataWarehouse.dbo.SQLTableStatus

    SET Status = 'N',

     Comments = 'Can not find TextFile',

     LastMaintDate = getdate()

    WHERE Textfile = ?

    INSERT INTO Email.dbo.AutoEmail

     (Source, Recipients, Subject, Message)

     VALUES ('SQL',?,'SQL DTS Error -> '+ ?, 'Can not find the text file  '+ ? )

    Depending on what I set the length of for TextFile (the first ? in pink) in the table SQLTableStatus, will control what the rest of the lengths are for the rest of the ?.

    So I set the length to 25 for the Textfile, and I only got 25 characters for the rest of the question marks.    Is this a bug ?

  • June 29, 2005 at 7:06 am

    #569294

    Could be... certainly not the expected behavior. Maybe you should ask on a dts specialized site for this one. You might get a clearer answer.

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