Example:
select dbo.GetValueOfSplitStringByIndex(',','abc,def,hhhhhhh,l',1)
returns:
'def'

CREATE FUNCTION dbo.GetValueOfSplitStringByIndex (@sep char(1), @s varchar(1540), @index int)
RETURNS varchar(1540)
AS
-- Takes a @sep separated string, turns it into a list internally and returns the value from that
-- list found at the @index location.  Null is return if that @index does not exist.
-- Sample usage (testing):
-- select dbo.GetValueOfSplitStringByIndex('-','200-2505-0000-01-149-101-10',1)
-- select dbo.GetValueOfSplitStringByIndex(',','abc,def,hhhhhhh,l',0)
-- select dbo.GetValueOfSplitStringByIndex(',','abc,def,hhhhhhh,l',1)
-- select dbo.GetValueOfSplitStringByIndex(',','abc,def,hhhhhhh,l',2)
-- select dbo.GetValueOfSplitStringByIndex(',','abc,def,hhhhhhh,l',3)
-- select dbo.GetValueOfSplitStringByIndex(',','abc,def,hhhhhhh,l',4)
-- select dbo.GetValueOfSplitStringByIndex(',','abc,def,hhhhhhh,l,',0)
-- select dbo.GetValueOfSplitStringByIndex(',','abc',0)
Begin
	declare @pos int
	declare @piece varchar(500)
	declare @curr_index int
	set @curr_index = 0
	-- Need to tack a delimiter onto the end of the input string if one doesn't exist
	if right(rtrim(@s),1) <> @sep
	 set @s = rtrim(@s)  + @sep

	set @pos =  patindex('%' + @sep + '%' , @s)
	while @pos <> 0
	begin
		set @piece = left(@s, @pos - 1)
		-- You have a piece of data, so insert it, print it, do whatever you want to with it.
		if @curr_index=@index
		return cast(@piece as varchar(1540))

		set @s = stuff(@s, 1, @pos, '')
		set @pos =  patindex('%' + @sep + '%' , @s)
		set @curr_index = @curr_index + 1
	end
	return Null
end

Here’s the crazy thing. The package would run perfectly when I ran it directly or via a batch file, but when I ran it through the SQL Agent Job it would die and I would see a message like this in the log file I set up:

DTS_E_CANNOTACQUIRECONNECTIONFROMCONNECTIONMANAGER. The AcquireConnection method call to the connection manager "Connection 1" failed with error code 0xC0209303. There may be error messages posted before this with more information on why the AcquireConnection method call failed.


I tried all of the work-arounds mentioned on this page. However none of them helped.

The answer it turns out is that 64 bit SQL Server Integration Services can’t handle Excel (xls) files! The trick is to use the 32 bit runtime of dtexec. To make the SQL Agent Job do this, go to the execution options tab of the job step and select “use 32 bit runtime”.

Finally what I ended up doing was creating a ragged right file, and making a dummy field with 0 width as the last field. You see, ragged right format works perfectly for exporting fixed width flat files with one record per line except that it trims the trailing spaces after that last field.

So making a dummy 0 width field lets you keep all of the trailing spaces in the last field you care about but still lets SSIS do its thing to add carriage returns/line breaks.

Source

'/' is an unexpected token. The expected token is '='. Line 9, position 33.

It turns out you just have to go to the web config file in C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL.3\Reporting Services\ReportServer and change the timeout value to something high enough.

(Be sure to back up your web config file before editing it.)

Source

It takes some trial and error to find the right length to use.

More discussion here.