This is part 41 of the series of article on SSIS
Introduction:
In this article we are going to see on how to use the Copy Column transformation inside a package. Copy Column task help to copy a column to a destination as and when required to have sync across the environments. Let’s jump start to the section on how to do that using a sample package.
You can look into my series of article on SSIS at the url – https://f5debug.net/tutorial/ssis.php
[more]Steps:
Follow steps 1 to 3 on my first article to open the BIDS project and select the right project to work on integration services project. Once the project is created, we will see on how to use the Copy Column control. Once you open the project just drag and drop the Copy Column control and a source and destination OLEDB provider control to get and update the column as shown in the below screen.
We have configured the OLEDB Source to fetch the data which we are going to make a copy. Now lets configure the Copy Column as shown in the below screen
Clicking on OK will do the configuration of the copy column control. Now go to the OLEDB Destination control and configure to the correct Column as shown in the below screen
Once we are done with the configuration Press F5 to build and execute the package. Once the package gets executed successfully your screen looks like below
Conclusion:
So in this article we have seen on how to use the Copy Column to transform a copy of column to the destination for particular columns in a table.
