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SSIS SQL 2005: Convert String to Datetime

Asked by sinjin in SSIS

Hi all,
I have an SSIS package that parses a fixed-width text file. One of the columns is for the Termination Date of an employee and is formatted yyyymmdd (e.g. 20081126). If the employee has not been terminated the data is a series of 0s (i.e 00000000).
I need to get this data into a SQL 2005 table field of type datetime.
I taken the following actions to solve this to no avail.
1) In the flat file source I have changed to column datatype from string to date
2) I have tried using the Data Conversion task in the SSIS designer and remapping the columns
The error I get is:
[OLE DB Destination [643]] Error: There was an error with input column "TerminationDate" (5817) on input "OLE DB Destination Input" (656). The column status returned was: "The value could not be converted because of a potential loss of data.".

I prefer to use SSIS to deal with this. Any ideas?
Thanks in advance.

PS: I will not be able to respond until AFTER the Thanksgiving Holiday so please be patient. I'll check back on Monday, 1 Dec 08.

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