Multiple flat files to multiple tables

Hi,

I have searched but not found quite the best way to look at this so far..

I have an application that outputs data to several text files (up to 30). These have commonality by an object name, but then contain completely different column data.

In DTS I had each of the source text file connections going to one OLE DB connection and then individual transform data tasks pointing to the one OLE DB connection.

Looking at SSIS, it would appear that I would need to have one source and one destination for each of these and therefore 30 parallel data flows?

Just wondering if there is a neater way of doing this?

It is a regular data import that happens a few times a day - the text files are named the same as the SQL tables - ie app_userdata.txt goes to app_userdata table.

Hope that explains ok and thanks in advance.

Mike

Since each source file and each destination table has its own schema, I don't know of any better way than what you describe.

Personally I would rather see 30 packages, each with one data flow, rather than one package with 30 data flows, but that's largely a personal preference, not a hard and fast rule or anything...

|||Thanks for the response - hadn't considered a package for each so will take a look at that|||The advantage that I see in the "one package per destination table" approach is that it makes ongoing maintenance much simpler. For smaller projects it seems like overkill, but it serves me well...