I got this error today, and it was very difficult to figure out. I wasted about two hours on it.

There was a failure executing the receive pipeline: “pipeline name” Source: “Pipeline ” Receive Port: “SQLPollingWire” URI: “SQL://Server/ECData_SharedDev/4” Reason: Input string was not in a correct format.

I was using the polling of the built-in SQL adapter, and add a new element to my SQL query, and thus manually added the same element to the schema.

In the schem a, the new field w as defined as a string, not a number, so why would this blow-up in the pipeline?

The error is the same error that is thrown when you would get if you tried this: System.Convert.ToInt32(“test”).

The answer is that I did a quick-promote on it, and accidentally associated it with field in the property schema that was an “int”. Thus, when the pipeline was doing the promotion of the field, that’s when it died.

Another error solved, and more time wasted. Hope this helps if you get this error.