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SQL Server 2012 Multimode
SQL Server 2012 is a database application that you can connect to directly or through ODBC. This connector uses the SQL Server Native Client 11.0 ODBC driver, which must be installed on your system.
This connector allows you to perform multiple operations (Change Source or Target, table drops, table inserts, etc.) directly on your target database within the same transformation.
You can quickly setup a multimode connector using the multimode wizard. For more information, see Setting Up Multimode Target Connector Using Multimode Wizard.
Connector-Specific Notes
Target Schema modification: In multimode targets, modifications to column names, data types, and sizes are not permitted.
Transaction Control: SQL Server 2012 does not allow mixing of API-level transaction control and Transact-SQL control. If you want explicit control of transactions, use Target Only (Unbound) mode, which does not use bind variables. The Target Only mode attempts to use bind variables for speed, which limits your ability to explicitly control of transactions.
Transaction Support: When a transformation starts, it is in AutoCommit mode (for example, every statement is considered a separate unit of work and is automatically committed). To operate in Explicit mode, do a BEGIN TRANSACTION statement. For Implicit mode, use a SET IMPLICIT_TRANSACTIONS ON Statement.
Connector Parts
Connector parts are the fields you configure to connect with a data source or target.
The settings that are available depend on the connector you select.
For a list of all parts for target connectors, see Specifying Connector, Parts, and Properties.
Property Options
You can specify the following target properties:
Property
Description
AutoCommit
Allows you to automatically commit changes as they are made by each SQL statement, instead of waiting until the end of the transaction. If AutoCommit is set to true, there is no way to roll back changes once they have been made. The default is false.
Encoding
Translates user names and query statements to Unicode before passing them on to SQL Server. The default is OEM. For choices, see Source and Target Map Connectors.
Notes:
Shift-JIS encoding is meaningful only in Japanese operating systems.
This property is not the encoding of the database that you connect to, but rather the encoding in which the connector expects to receive SQL query statements to be sent to the database.
IdentifierQuotes
All databases have what are called quoted identifiers. You use these identifiers to make a SQL statement parseable and to distinguish between columns and character data in SQL statements. For example, Oracle uses double quotes for column and tables names in SQL statements and single quotes for character data. In a SQL statement, you should enclose identifiers containing special characters or match keywords in identifier quote characters; (also known as delimited identifiers in SQL-92). For example, the Accounts Receivable identifier is quoted in the following SELECT statement.
SELECT * FROM "Accounts Receivable"
If you do not use identifier quotes, the parser assumes there are two tables, Accounts and Receivable and returns a syntax error that they are not separated by a comma.
IdentifierQuotes has four options:
Default
None
"
'
MaxDataLength
Refers to the maximum data length for long data types. The default is 1 MB. You can reset this number as you choose based on your available memory capabilities and target data requirements.
Some ODBC drivers have limitations concerning the maximum data length they can handle. If you choose an application (ODBC) target connector and the default setting is not 1 MB, then Map Designer presets the default in respect for the capabilities of that particular ODBC driver. It is not recommended that you set this property higher under these conditions.
SQL Log
The default is sql.log in the default installation directory. To use a different log, browse to the file or enter the path and file name.
Note:  SQL statements are sent to the SQL Log file only if the SQL Output property is set to either Target and SQL Log or SQL Log Only.
SQL Output
Allows you to select bound or unbound mode and whether or not to write SQL statements to a SQL log. Keep in mind that bound mode is faster as bind variables are used.
Available options:
Target Only (default) - Uses bound mode, which uses bind variables. SQL statements are sent to the target and not to the SQL log specified in the SQL Log property.
Target Only (Unbound mode) - Uses unbound mode, which does not use bind variables and sends the literal SQL statement to the database engine. SQL statements are sent to the target and not to the SQL log specified in the SQL Log property.
Target and SQL Log - Sends SQL statements to the target and to the SQL log specified in the SQL Log property.
SQL Log Only - Sends SQL statements only to the SQL log file specified in the SQL Log property.
SystemTables
If set to true, allows you to see all tables created by the DBA in the database. The system table names appear in the table list. Default is false.
TransactionIsolation
Allows you to specify isolation level when reading from or writing to a database table with ODBC. The default is serializable.
The ANSI SQL 2 standard defines three ways in which serializability of a transaction may be violated: P1 (Dirty Read), P2 (Nonrepeatable Read), and P3 (Phantoms).
The supported isolation levels are as follows:
read uncommitted - Permits P1, P2, and P3.
read committed - Permits P2 and P3. Does not permit P1.
repeatable read - Permits P3. Does not permit P1 and P2.
serializable - Does not permit any of P1, P2, and P3.
For further details about TransactionIsolation levels, see the Microsoft ODBC SDK documentation.
UpdateNullFields
Null values are sent to the database when inserting or updating records. The default is true. If you select false, null values are not sent to the database when inserting or updating record and the connector is forced to operate in unbound mode, which may cause slower performance.
Best Practice — If fields in the target record are not mapped, then the null values are passed to the target. If you do not want to write to these fields, then it is recommended to set the value for UpdateNullFields to False.
Views
If set to True, this property allows you to see the view names in the table list along with the table names. Default is True.
Note:  This property supports only Append and DeleteAndAppend output modes and does not support the Replace output mode.
Supported Data Types
ID field types are not supported.
Last modified date: 02/09/2024