FTP + SQL2000 DTS – excellent!

admin — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:27:11 +0000

For all of us dinosaurs still using SQL 2000, an extremely useful (if you need this of course!) custom DTS task is the SQLDTS FTP Task which “is designed to give you greater control over FTP operations compared to the task supplied with SQL Server 2000″. The ability to FTP text files (in both directions) lends itself to greater use of DTS for common text processing tasks, which can only be a good thing, but whether it does or not, if you need greater flexibility with FTP in your existing DTS processes it’s extremely useful (and works perfectly from what I can tell).

sql 2000 DTS ‘cannot open a log file of specific name’

admin — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 11:10:42 +0000

When migrating DTS packages today I came across a problem with DTS log files I had completely forgotten about.

The DTS package seemed to run perfectly but on completion it said ‘cannot open a log file of specific name’ – this revealed itself to be a problem with the packages logging properties which I’d forgotten to set. To resolve this issue, right click on the DTS page area, select ‘properties’ then navigate the the logging tab thus:

Then make sure the path as indicated is actually valid.

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FTP + SQL2000 DTS – excellent!

sql 2000 DTS ‘cannot open a log file of specific name’