I'm retarded and need help with Derived Column or Script Task

I am moving data from an oracle database to sql server. Two of the source fields are dates, which sometimes contain values I know to be incorrect ('0001/01/01' and '1900/01/01').

I'd like to use either the derived column or script task (or any other appropriate one) to update these incorrect values (in both columns) to null before inserting into sql server, smalldatetime field.

In sql 2000 dts, I would simply use a VBScript IF statement, but I'm somewhat clueless when it comes to .Net.

Does anyone have any ideas or sample code that may help?

Thank you much.

In a derived column you could do a comparison expression such as:

[ORACLE_COL] == (DT_DBTIMESTAMP)"0001/01/01" || [ORACLE_COL] == (DT_DBTIMESTAMP)"1900/01/01" ? NULL(DT_DBTIMESTAMP) : [ORACLE_COL]

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That worked perfectly, thank you. However it also looks like it's slowing me down quite a bit. I'm moving a lot of data, 16 million records, from oracle to sql server. Moving this into a temp table without the derived column task only took 8 minutes. After adding the new task I can see it would take far longer.

Do you know of any good learning resources for SSIS besides Books on Line?

Thank you.

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www.sqlis.com is the recognised community site.

The guys that run it (Darren and Allan) are also running a new wiki site: http://wiki.sqlis.com/

-Jamie

|||I found that the WROX press book "SQL Server 2005 Integration Services",, ISBN 0-7645-8435-9 is a very good resource. I normally do not like using anything other than online resources either.

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Ignoring Source Field

Hi,

I am implementing a Transactional Replication btwn two SQL 2000 servers, which is using Data Transform services (DTS package) to manipulate the data. I need to ignore a source column from replication but that column field value needs to be appended with other field column.

For ex. Let two source fields be named FirstName and LastName. In the target database i need to merge those field values into a Single field called CustomerName. Also i don't want the two source fields to be replicated in the target.

I tried to ignore the field by unchecking the Column Transformation and Mapping screen, but then unable to append the field value to the other field.

Is there any other way to do the above?

Thanks in advance.

urs,
T. Jayakumar

I don't think there is a way to use a field in a transformation but not include it in the package data.

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