Derived Column - Conditional

  • Hello I am new to Integration Services. I am trying to split a table into two tables. To do this I need to create a new key using the derived column so that later I can create a relationship between the two new tables. It seems that my derived column is not populating like I expect it would. Below is the expression I am using in the derived column transformation editor.

    project_manager_lastname == "Anyname" ? 1 : 2

  • If your source data has a key, why not just use that?

    Your expression

    project_manager_lastname == "Anyname" ? 1 : 2

    is a valid conditional expression that should return a 1 when project_manager_lastname = "Anyname" and return a 2 when it does not. It doesn't seem like this is a very good key for more than 2 rows.

  • Thank you for your response. Yes I agree it is not a very good key. I would perfer to have an autonumber of some sort but I am just learning how to use this tool so I wanted to start with something very basic. I was not getting any results though in my table and it turns out I wasn't mapping correctly.

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