Error when I try to add Output Column in in Data Conversion

Here is what I get. Is this an install problem or is this how this software works?

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Error at Data Flow Task [Data Conversion [720]]: An output cannot be added to the outputs collection.

(Microsoft Visual Studio)

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Exception from HRESULT: 0xC020800F (Microsoft.SqlServer.DTSPipelineWrap)

Program Location:

at Microsoft.SqlServer.Dts.Pipeline.Wrapper.CManagedComponentWrapperClass.InsertOutput(DTSInsertPlacement eInsertPlacement, Int32 lOutputID)
at Microsoft.DataTransformationServices.Design.Controls.ComponentMetaDataTreeView.AddOutput()

What did you do to cause the error?

-Jamie

|||When in a package I added a data flow object then drilled into to add data source etc.

One of the items in the tool bar is Data Conversion. I whent to Advance edit on DataConversion on the last tab there was a button to "Add Output"

The result was the error above|||

PeterFreeb wrote:

When in a package I added a data flow object then drilled into to add data source etc.

One of the items in the tool bar is Data Conversion. I whent to Advance edit on DataConversion on the last tab there was a button to "Add Output"

The result was the error above

This is completely correct. it is not possible to add an output to the Data Conversion component. It only has one output and that exists as soon as you drag it onto the design surface.

What exactly are you attempting to do?

-Jamie

|||I have a unicode field in SQL and am trying to go non unicode or VARCHAR2 in Oracle.|||

PeterFreeb wrote:

I have a unicode field in SQL and am trying to go non unicode or VARCHAR2 in Oracle.

OK, well you have no need to go anywhere near the Advanced Editor. Just open the component up by double-clicking on it and add your data conversion in the GUI.

-Jamie

|||OK thanks I have a more involved question for Jamie or whoever knows...

I need to do an update or insert - I could do this easyly in SQL am not sure how to accomplish this in SSIS.

1. Check if the record is in the destination
2. If true -> Update
3. Else ->Insert|||

PeterFreeb wrote:

OK thanks I have a more involved question for Jamie or whoever knows...

I need to do an update or insert - I could do this easyly in SQL am not sure how to accomplish this in SSIS.

1. Check if the record is in the destination
2. If true -> Update
3. Else ->Insert

All documented here Peter:

Checking if a row exists and if it does, has it changed?
(http://blogs.conchango.com/jamiethomson/archive/2006/09/12/SSIS_3A00_-Checking-if-a-row-exists-and-if-it-does_2C00_-has-it-changed.aspx)

-Jamie