Data Flow Excel Destination

Question

I have a Data Flow with an Excel Destination. The Excel Destination uses a Staging File that I was planning on creating from a Template Excel file via a File System Task Copy.

When I run my SSIS Package in Microsoft Visual Studio, the Staging File is being created on the fly...dynamically....Is that because the Excel Connection Manager is referencing it and creating it since it isn't there?

My plan was to copy the Template.xlsx to a Staging.xlsx and use that to Stage my Data getting from an OLE DB Source and then Copy that to my Fully Qualified File Name with YYYYMMDD and then Delete the Staging.xlsx at the end.

Will the SSIS Package always dynamically try to create this Staging.xlsx because it's referenced in the Excel Connection Manager? Even when I have set DelayValidation to True?

Is there any way around this? I DO NOT want the Staging.xlsx file to be created dynamically. I want to control that myself by copying the Template.xlsx to Staging.xlsx because my Template.xlsx is formatted the way I want.

Answer 1

Hi @Bobby P ,

I test locally and the staging.xlsx file will not be created dynamically.

My simple setting is like below you may have a check.

The two connection I chose is existing file not create file.

Regards，

Zoe

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