Change data in buffer

• stricknyn

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  January 19, 2011 at 10:11 am

  #230512

  Hi all,

  I'm doing some debugging with my SSIS package. It runs fine, but I would like to be able to change a column while the data is in the buffer to force an error to occur (kinda like a what if this happened scenario). I thought I could make this happen by adding a dataview in one of the data flow tasks, then just changing a value in one of the columns when the data viewer window pops up during run-time, but it looks like the data viewers are read only. Is there a way to do this without creating another data flow task to change the value?

  Note: I do not have access to change the value in the source DB so I need to be able to change it in the buffer.

  Thanks,

  Strick

• Koen Verbeeck

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  January 20, 2011 at 12:15 am

  #1275707

  How do you read from the source?

  If it is a relation source and you are accessing it with a SQL statement (you should), then you can just add an extra row with the UNION statement.

  Place in that extra rows the errors you need.

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