SSIS Convert VARCHAR to DATE

SHREERAAMAA 1 Reputation point
2022-02-09T09:48:56.827+00:00

Good day,

I am using SSIS.

Data source is "Flat File Source"

Issue column name: [Years]

Data in this column [Years] shows only Years like 2000, 2010, 2011, 2021, 2222

Target is SQL Server table. In SQL Server target table [Years] column data type is "Date"

Can't move data from Flat File source to SQL Server target because of the Data type issue.

Please help

Thank you

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  1. Yitzhak Khabinsky 20,721 Reputation points
    2022-02-09T13:35:11.08+00:00

    Hi @SHREERAAMAA ,

    So you have missing month and day to make a year it into a legit date.
    How about (DT_DBDATE)(CONCAT([Year], "-01-01"))

  2. SHREERAAMAA 1 Reputation point
    2022-02-09T13:50:30.14+00:00

    Thank you for your response.

    Basically, [Years] source column data type is [DT_STR] and would like to push this data as is to Target table, SQL Server target column data type is DATE.

    Thank you

  3. ZoeHui-MSFT 20,176 Reputation points
    2022-02-10T02:06:53.79+00:00

    Hi @SHREERAAMAA ,

    If your source data format is yyyy-MM-dd and you want to convert it to DATE, you may add the Derived Column with below code. 

    (DT_DBDATE)datecolumn

    And then you may load it to SQL Server table.

    I would like to get YEAR from there.

    However I could not get the meaning of this, what result do you want to get? Could you please explain it with more details?

    Regards，

    Zoe

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