Get a List of Output Columns on Script Transformation

I am using a script component to transform data. In the script component I created a bunch of fields for the output. Is there any way to loop through that list of columns? Is there code I can use in the script component to access the names, data types, data etc?

I saw a lot of informaiton on the OutputColumnCollection as part of some IDTSOuput90 thing (greek to me). As best I can guess this is for creating your own new columns, but can I see what columns are already defined via the script interface?

I was able to get a specific column by doing this...

Dim o As IDTSOutput90

o = ComponentMetaData.OutputCollection.GetObjectByID(88)

MsgBox("Column Count: " & o.OutputColumnCollection.Count)

MsgBox("Colum: " & o.OutputColumnCollection.FindObjectByID(139).Name)

But Is there a way to just loop through all the ids? I have to know the id to stick in findobjectbyid(x). Can i do a loop and have x = all the ids? Additionally the 88 is hard code value... is there a way to get the current or specific output set?

The ultimate goal is to loop through the column collection and set a column = value. Basically I have an array of values and want to loop through the columns and set it to the array postion.

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Ok... sorry about the multiple posts here... but I got some more logic to work...

I was able to get able to get columns by doing this...

Dim o As IDTSOutput90

o = ComponentMetaData.OutputCollection.GetObjectByID(88)

For Each col As IDTSOutputColumn90 In o.OutputColumnCollection

MsgBox("Name: " & col.Name)

Next

So the updated question is this...

The ultimate goal is to loop through the column collection and set a column = value. Basically I have an array of values and want to loop through the columns and set it to the array postions value. I can't find how to set the column value equal to something while i loop through it. Additionally... is there a reference or good way to get the data type? When i use the col.datatype is returns a number vs description. I want to have logic when it set the value to do coverts based on the data type.

generating an unique number within SSIS - looking for good examples

Does anybody know how to generate a new identity value from within SSIS. Can anybody point me to a good example using a script component?

Thanks you very much!!!!

Sergio

Here is some script to generate a new GUID.

Code Snippet

Public Sub Main()

' Generate a globally unique identifier

Dim myGuid As Guid = Guid.NewGuid()

MsgBox(myGuid.ToString())

Dts.TaskResult = Dts.Results.Success

End Sub

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Sergio wrote:

Does anybody know how to generate a new identity value from within SSIS. Can anybody point me to a good example using a script component?

Thanks you very much!!!!

Sergio

Like this? http://www.ssistalk.com/2007/02/20/generating-surrogate-keys/

What do you mean, "generate a new identity value"?

generate file task with 2 files

Hi Guys,

I've one Dafta flow task where I'm getting data from OleDb source and then doing some scripting using script component and then generating a file.

Now I would need to get the same data and apply some different things and generate another file.
Can I used this same task for doing the secondry work? If yes how woulld I put the thing in place, I would need to get the same data but I would need to use a seperate scripting and generate a seperate file?

TA

Gemma

You can use a multicast transformation to split your dataflow up into two or more flows. If you add a multicast right after your OLE DB source, you can then move your data to two script components each connected to their own file destination.

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