Convert from unicodestring to uniqueidentifier

Hello,
I have a XML data source containing strings representing GUIDs (ie <modelAsset id="e04ba23c-0401-43a9-b40c-b4c3d580caa9" />) and I need to fill a SQL table with uniqueidentifier column.

I added Data Conversion component setting the data type as DT_GUID.

Running the package I get the following error message:

Error: 0xC02020C5 at Import MyALM settings, Data Conversion [1301]: Data conversion failed while converting column "id" (4645) to column "GUID" (5912). The conversion returned status value 2 and status text "The value could not be converted because of a potential loss of data.".

Error: 0xC0209029 at Import MyALM settings, Data Conversion [1301]: The "output column "GUID" (5912)" failed because error code 0xC020907F occurred, and the error row disposition on "output column "GUID" (5912)" specifies failure on error. An error occurred on the specified object of the specified component.

How can I solve the problem ?

Thanks,
PierreWhile the error message could use some improvement the problem is that your strings that represent guids are not exactly correct. A string representation of a GUID has opening and closing curly braces ({}) and yours do not. If you wrap the column with curly braces (you could use a derived column for this) then your conversion should succeed.

HTH,
Matt|||

Thanks - I had the same problem.

It would be useful if the documentation for uniqueidentifer was updated to reflect the need for { and }.

ms-help://MS.SQLCC.v9/MS.SQLSVR.v9.en/tsqlref9/html/b026035b-f3d2-4d70-989d-3884b4ca0233.htm

Currently it states:

"converting from a string constant in the form xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx, in which each x is a hexadecimal digit in the range 0-9 or a-f. For example, 6F9619FF-8B86-D011-B42D-00C04FC964FF is a valid uniqueidentifier value."

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So did you use the Send Feedback link then?

-Jamie