Working with Flat files with repetition of columns

• subhashk

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  July 15, 2012 at 11:52 pm

  #264214

  Hi,

  I have a situation where the flat file consists repetition of data i.e.,

  Name, Address, City, Pincode, Accountno, Accounttype, Accountno, Accountype

  last two rows can be repeated upto 70 times.

  where ID,Name,address,pincode stores in one table and ID, Accountno, AccountType stores in another table.

  And my file contains huge amount of data. So, I trying to build a package.

  So, How to work with repetition of columns in flat file and the flat file is having no delemeter, it is having only fixed width columns.

  Thanks

• S3ssion

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  July 18, 2012 at 6:58 pm

  #1514580

  Not sure I fully understand..

  You have:

  1. A flat file with Column1,Column2,Column3 and no delimeter

  2. You need to split the data as TableA (ID,Column1,Column2) and TableB (ID,Column3)

  | If in Doubt...don't do it!! |

• Koen Verbeeck

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  July 18, 2012 at 11:55 pm

  #1514616

  The SSIS flat file source cannot read this if the columns change each time.

  You need to parse this with a script task.

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