GetErrorDescription with oledb destination fast load mode

I have an OLE-DB Command transformation that inserts a row. If the insert SQL command fails for some reason, I use the "Redirect Row" option to send the row to a script component. Inthere, I get the error description into a string variable in order to log the error into an error table.

For example, if a primary key violation arises, I would like the error description to be "The data value violates integrity constraints". I get it using the ComponentMetadata.GetErrorDescription. When I use the "table or view mode", I get the error description above without any problem. But If I use the "table or view fast load", the description is something like "No status available". But, If I use the error output to fail the component, in the OnError, I get the right error description. Is there a way to have both behaviour, I mean, to be able to redirect error rows to an output and have the cotrrect error description (like the one in OnError event handler) using fast load mode?

Thank you!

Ccote

Hi ccote,

I am having exactly the same problem. Did you have yours resolved?

|||You can't get an error description using "Fast Load" as that is a bulk load operation.|||Even if I don't use the fast load option, the error description is vague. It returns something like "data violate integrity constraints". If I let the component fail and don't redirect the row, it gives the name of the constraint violated. It there a way to capture this detail error message?|||

I do not believe this information is available within the data flow. In any event, I've never been able to get more information than what you have described getting, above. Still, this is not necessarily a dead end.

Generally what I will do is set up an "error table" for each table into which I load data with an SSIS package. The error table will have a similar schema as the "real" target table, with a few exceptions:

It has much more lax integrity constraints - there are no foreign keys, and all columns allow NULLs, for example, so the odds of an INSERT failing are greatly reduced. It has two additional columns, ErrorCode and ErrorDescription, into which I load the values added by the OLD DB Destination component's error output.