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    <p>I am importing a FoxPro table into SQL Server 2008 using SSIS. The source data is a proprietary database that I have no control over. Let call the table I am importing Customers.</p> <p>Sometimes, the structure for Customers looks like this:</p> <p><strong>ID (int)</strong></p> <p><strong>NAME (char(30))</strong></p> <p><strong>ADDRESS (char(30))</strong></p> <p><strong>CITY (char(20))</strong></p> <p><strong>STATE (char(2))</strong></p> <p><strong>ZIP (char(10))</strong></p> <p><strong>CCNUM (char(16))</strong></p> <p>Other times, it looks like this:</p> <p><strong>ID (int)</strong></p> <p><strong>NAME (char(30))</strong></p> <p><strong>ADDRESS (char(30))</strong></p> <p><strong>CITY (char(20))</strong></p> <p><strong>STATE (char(2))</strong></p> <p><strong>ZIP (char(10))</strong></p> <p><strong>CCPTR (char(100))</strong></p> <p>This proprietary database basically has 2 different versions of the database. The older version had a field called CCNUM (credit card #) that was a basic 16 character field. The newer version replaced that field with a field called CCPTR, which was a 100 character field that represented a card pointer (encrypted value for the actual credit card number).</p> <p>The problem here is everytime I have to switch back and forth between 2 datasets that have these different table structures, SSIS blows up and I have to go in and manually refresh the metadata.</p> <p>My question is, is there anyway I can have SSIS dynamically look for one of these fields at runtime, and based on which one is there, load the correct data into the correct table structure in SQL?</p> <p>Forgive me if this has been asked before. I am still fairly new to SSIS and I tried searching for this answer but to no avail.</p> <p>Thanks,</p> <p>Mark</p>
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