Posted by jags_32 on 11/26/07 16:57

J

Thanks a bunch! I was able to get this running in no time after I read
through your post. I did take note of your post about schema being the
same across the different ERP databases. We anyhow use customized DTS
packages in such cases.

Thanks

Jagannathan Santhanam

On Nov 26, 5:06 am, jhofm...@googlemail.com wrote:
> On Nov 26, 12:34 am, jags...@yahoo.com wrote:
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> > Could you elaborate on step 5?
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> > Thanks
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> >JagannathanSanthanam
> > On Nov 21, 8:50 am, jhofm...@googlemail.com wrote:
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> > > HiJagannathan,
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> > > You will need to:
> > > 1) Create a variable in the package of type "Object"
> > > 2) Put an Execute SQL task before your ForEach loop which returns the
> > > connection data from your database and puts it into the variable you
> > > created (Change the "ResultSet" property to "Full result set" and on
> > > the Result Set tab set the Result Name to 0 and the Variable Name to
> > > the new variable you created.
> > > 3) On the Collection tab of your ForEach loop, change the Enumerator
> > > property to "ForEach ADO Enumerator" and set the ADO object source
> > > variable to the Object variable.
> > > 4) On the Variable Mappings tab of your ForEach loop map your
> > > connection details to suitable variable(s). *NOTE: These variables
> > > will need to be at the Package scope.
> > > 5) Set Expression(s) using the variables set by the ForEach loop to
> > > configure the ODBC connection manager that your data flow source task
> > > is using.
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> > > It is important to note that the table metadata in each of the ODBC
> > > databases needs to be identical in order to re-use the same data
> > > flow. If the metadata is different then you will need to create a
> > > seperate data flow for each table.
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> > > Good luck!
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> HiJagannathan,
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> If you r-click on your ODBC connection manager at the bottom of the
> design screen and select Properties from the context menu. One of the
> properties is "Expressions". When you edit this it opens another
> window which allows you to select properties that you'd like to be
> determined by an expression. Here you need to select the
> Connectionstring property and set it to equal the variable that has
> been set to store this information.
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> Good luck!
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