Question

I am developing a package in BIDS 2005 that starts with a XML (XSLT) Task against a very large input file and keep getting the following error

[XML Task] Error: An error occurred with the following error message:
“Exception of type ‘System.OutOfMemoryException’ was thrown.

My workstation is Win7 64 bit – 16 GIG Ram – i7 8 core processor 3.5 gHZ. I run task manager during the process and it only gets up to about 7.5 gigs of ram used during the run until it crashes with the error. I am running against my local instance of SQL 2008 R2 64 bit. The package is configured in BIDS to run in 64 bit mode. I have googled around for a while but found nothing that looks promising – anyone run into this and resolve before? – Thanks.

Answer 1

I actually found a resolution. I used a script task in place of the XML task to do the transform. It only requires 3 lines of code and worked very well on all the feeds including the large ones. Example code for the script follows:

Imports System
Imports System.Data
Imports System.Math
Imports System.Xml.Xsl
Imports Microsoft.SqlServer.Dts.Runtime

Public Class ScriptMain

Public Sub Main()
        Dim xslt As New XslTransform()

        xslt.Load("C:\VVV XML\your-xml-stylesheet.xsl")
        xslt.Transform("C:\VVV XML\your-source-file.xml", "C:\VVV XML\your-destination-file.xml")

        Dts.TaskResult = Dts.Results.Success
End Sub

End Class