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Asked: 2026-05-31T08:39:45+00:00

I process data from a legacy system with SSIS before importing data into a

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I process data from a legacy system with SSIS before importing data into a SQL Server 2008 db.
A currency field is so formatted:

000000xxx.xx

I need to remove the leading zeros. Note that the actual currency value has not a fixed number of digit. So, for instance, it could be xxxxx.xx or x.xx or xxxxxxxxxxx.xx

I found this answer, but the derived column tool display only limited string functions, like the Access formula wizard.

So my question:

  • how may I use PATINDEX in the DTS derived column tool
  • otherwise, how may I remove leading zeros from input column
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  1. Editorial Team

    how are you querying the data? I suppose you are using direct table access on your OleDBSource component, right? I do not advise that because a tiny change on the table may break your package.

    I would right a view containing the select from your source table and on this select I would use the PATINDEX function and inside the package, I would select the view instead of the table.

    This is a good approach because if you need to do a minor change, you can change the view instead of the package

    If you dont want to write a view, fine, instead of selecting “data access mode” = “table or view”, select “sql command” and write your sql directly on the package.

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