DTS fails coes it refuses to fill the unique id colum

THe unique Id column is set to identity seed. Yet when transfering 1500 records it fails to stuff them all becuase it says there is a NULL in unique id column.

"Cannot insert the value NULL into column UID column does not allow"

Yet in the transformation screen I am setting the UID column to <ignore> meaning I do not have that value in my source and I am wanting the destination table to do it's thing and incrememnt by 1 the identity seed.

Is this common?

THe source and destination tables are in the same databes.

When you click on "Transform" uncheck where it says "Enable Identity Insert"

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Thank you very much.

It worked.

I am not sure I "logically" understand that though.

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When you have enable Identity Insert checked in your DTS wizard what it does is says "I want you to insert the identity field that is coming from the table I'm copying from". This is useful when you have a truncated table and you want to keep your identity field values for data integrity.

Now comes the however.

When you set to Ignore the Identity column in your transformation you were essentially telling it to insert null values, and Identity columns can't be null. Had you not selected that then you would have most likely received the error that says you can't insert duplicates into your identiy column as it violates the unique constraint.

DTS "Can Not Insert Null Value"

Hi,
I'm using a DTS package to import data from csv files, the destiantion
table however has a unique primary key field that can not be null, this
data is not in the CSV file.
I'm using an ActiveX transformation, and I've used the following code
to add a number to the ID field:
Function Main()
if isEmpty(N) then
N = 0
end if
N = N+1
DTSDestination("CDR_ID") = N
Main = DTSTransformStat_OK
End Function
However the problem with this is that it needs to start at whatever the
LAST id field number was, IE instead of 1,2,3, it needs to be x+1, x+2,
x+3 where X is the previously highest ID.
I was hoping that SQL server would generate the ID field if I didnt put
one in, but alas it was not to be.
Thanks is advance for any help.
Matt.With the unique PK have you got auto identity set up ?
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<Matt.Mawdsley@.gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
> I'm using a DTS package to import data from csv files, the destiantion
> table however has a unique primary key field that can not be null, this
> data is not in the CSV file.
> I'm using an ActiveX transformation, and I've used the following code
> to add a number to the ID field:
> Function Main()
> if isEmpty(N) then
> N = 0
> end if
> N = N+1
> DTSDestination("CDR_ID") = N
> Main = DTSTransformStat_OK
> End Function
> However the problem with this is that it needs to start at whatever the
> LAST id field number was, IE instead of 1,2,3, it needs to be x+1, x+2,
> x+3 where X is the previously highest ID.
> I was hoping that SQL server would generate the ID field if I didnt put
> one in, but alas it was not to be.
> Thanks is advance for any help.
> Matt.
>|||Jack,
I don't belive I do, where is this set? and how? =)
Thanks,
Matt.

DTS "Can Not Insert Null Value"

Hi,
I'm using a DTS package to import data from csv files, the destiantion
table however has a unique primary key field that can not be null, this
data is not in the CSV file.
I'm using an ActiveX transformation, and I've used the following code
to add a number to the ID field:
Function Main()
if isEmpty(N) then
N = 0
end if
N = N+1
DTSDestination("CDR_ID") = N
Main = DTSTransformStat_OK
End Function
However the problem with this is that it needs to start at whatever the
LAST id field number was, IE instead of 1,2,3, it needs to be x+1, x+2,
x+3 where X is the previously highest ID.
I was hoping that SQL server would generate the ID field if I didnt put
one in, but alas it was not to be.
Thanks is advance for any help.
Matt.With the unique PK have you got auto identity set up ?
Jack Vamvas
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<Matt.Mawdsley@.gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1146128307.625814.307880@.e56g2000cwe.googlegroups.com...
> Hi,
> I'm using a DTS package to import data from csv files, the destiantion
> table however has a unique primary key field that can not be null, this
> data is not in the CSV file.
> I'm using an ActiveX transformation, and I've used the following code
> to add a number to the ID field:
> Function Main()
> if isEmpty(N) then
> N = 0
> end if
> N = N+1
> DTSDestination("CDR_ID") = N
> Main = DTSTransformStat_OK
> End Function
> However the problem with this is that it needs to start at whatever the
> LAST id field number was, IE instead of 1,2,3, it needs to be x+1, x+2,
> x+3 where X is the previously highest ID.
> I was hoping that SQL server would generate the ID field if I didnt put
> one in, but alas it was not to be.
> Thanks is advance for any help.
> Matt.
>|||Jack,
I don't belive I do, where is this set? and how? =)
Thanks,
Matt.