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Compare two tables for common string

Hello there,

I want to do this in SSIS. My situation is as follows. I have Supplier table and a table which has the supplier/product name and other details about the products. Both the table have a common column called SupplierName. Now I want to compare these two columns and if they are same then insert the ID from the Supplier Table into this second table where all are in one table. I tried with SSIS see shot,but I get error
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Surendra Nath

let us say the two tables in the first case Table1 and Table2.
the second table that you are talking about is TableA.

The common column here is ColumnX.

There are many ways to solve this issue, what I would do is to add a SQL task in the control flow and execute the below sql statement which will simplify the things

;WITH C AS 
(
  SELECT T1.ID ID FROM Table1 T1, Table2 T2 WHERE T1.ColumnX = T2.ColumnX
)
INSERT INTO TableA SELECT ID FROM C

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Zolf

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by: Surendra Ganti

thanks for your comments. can you please explain what does the first line say ;WITH C AS

Surendra Nath

that is called as common table expression (CTE)... this is newly introduced in SQL Server 2005

Zolf

ASKER

thanks for your comments. any idea why I get that error in my SSIS.I want to know the reason as to what I am doing wrong

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