Do you need to be a programmer to use SSIS?

Hello

I've been looking for SSIS examples where you need to import data from a OLE DB datasource and export it to a OLE DB destination source whilst the data in a colum is being transformed with a simple SQL statement.

For example:

SELECT (CONVERT(datetime, Left(Counterdatetime, 23))) datum
FROM CounterData

It seems to me that you have to use the Script Task Component ans start coding in Visual Basic.Net (or whatever)

Am I missing something here or is it normal you have to be a programmer to do simple thins like that?

Many thanks!

If i understand your question correctly, the Script Component may be overkill. You could just drag over the OLE DB Dest and Source. Between the two items in the data flow, you could use a Derrived Column transform or Data Conversion based on what the nuts and bolts of your data conversion. It looks like you just want to do a conversion by your example and you could do that in the Data Conversion transform.

-- Brian

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Worf wrote:

Hello

I've been looking for SSIS examples where you need to import data from a OLE DB datasource and export it to a OLE DB destination source whilst the data in a colum is being transformed with a simple SQL statement.

For example:

SELECT (CONVERT(datetime, Left(Counterdatetime, 23))) datum
FROM CounterData

It seems to me that you have to use the Script Task Component ans start coding in Visual Basic.Net (or whatever)

Am I missing something here or is it normal you have to be a programmer to do simple thins like that?

Many thanks!

Absolutely not. You have already done the required transformation in your SQL statement above. If you can do your required transforms in the source then invariably that is what you should do - there's no point in having unnecassary transformations in your data-flow. If you wanted to carry out those same transformations in the data-flow then you would require a Data Conversion component (or possibly the Derived Column component) and there is no "programming" (in the common sense of the word) involved in using those.

-Jamie

|||Good call Jaimie.