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SSIS how to find correct data types?


Background: This is my day 1 of learning ETL. Had a little computer science training (not very systematically) before.

So I was learning this SSIS Tutorial on msdn (https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms170583.aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396), one of the steps is to remap column data types from a flat file.

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I never ran into this kind of data types (I mean those [DT_WSTR] thing) before. My question is how do I find the correct data type in Flat File Connection Manager Editor for my destination column? A complete list of reference of datatypes would be perfect. Thanks everyone!


Solution

  • It's actually a rather complex beast. Despite SO best practice of not linking to external resources, I'm going to disregard it here