Monday, March 19, 2012

lookup transformation validation error

below is the error message:

TITLE: Package Validation Error

Package Validation Error

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

Error at Data Flow ACH Validate File and Header Info [Lookup ACH Batch Number [506]]: input column "ID" (571) and reference column named "BANKBATCHNBR" have incompatible data types.

"Lookup ACH Batch Number" is the name of the lookup transformation. input column "ID" has a string data type. reference column "BANKBATCHNBR" has a varchar(50) data type. can someone please tell me how i should go about debugging this validation error? thanks.

What is the length of the input column? I think (but may be wrong) that the lengths have to be the same.

There is a property of the LOOKUP transform that contains an XML snippet. I *think* that snippet contains the metadata of the lookup cache. I'm afraid I can't be absolutely certain about these things (and I can't remember the name of the property) because I don't have a BIDS instance to hand.

-Jamie

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