SSIS Basics: Data cleansing using derived columns

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SSIS Basics: Data cleansing using derived columns

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October 30, 2018 at 12:15 am

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Jeffrey Williams SSC Guru Points: 90245 More actions · Answer 1

SSIS has a function named TOKEN that is much easier to utilize than SUBSTRING and FINDSTRING. It can also be utilized to break up the string based on multiple delimiters if needed.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/integration-services/expressions/token-ssis-expression?view=sql-server-2017

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epivaral SSC-Addicted Points: 428 More actions · Answer 2

Jeffrey Williams 3188 - Tuesday, October 30, 2018 1:30 PM
SSIS has a function named TOKEN that is much easier to utilize than SUBSTRING and FINDSTRING. It can also be utilized to break up the string based on multiple delimiters if needed.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/integration-services/expressions/token-ssis-expression?view=sql-server-2017

thanks for your feedback Jeffrey, to be honest i did not know that function, I will give it a try...

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Larry Huisingh SSC Enthusiast Points: 194 More actions · Answer 3

It looks like your formula for the LastName causes the first character to be a blank. You need to start the substring one place further.
SUBSTRING(Name,FINDSTRING(Name," ",1) + 1,LEN(Name))