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Asked: 2026-05-11T19:38:04+00:00

Using SQL Server 2005 and Visual Studio 2005, I’m trying to create a SSIS

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Using SQL Server 2005 and Visual Studio 2005, I’m trying to create a SSIS package to merge data from 1 table to several other tables.

The source table does not have a several fields that the destination tables do. For example ‘CreatedBy’ and ‘CreatedDate’ fields. I would like these to be hard coded (in a sense) as part of the package import process.

The problem is not knowing what to use to facilitate this mapping. As a starting point it would be acceptable to have a hard coded ‘1’ and GetDate() for createdBy and createdDate respectively.

The “Input and Output Properties” or “Column Mappings” tab on the “Advanced Editor for Destination” options dialog does not have any apparent support for mapping “default” values such as GetDate().

Any suggestions as how to achieve this?

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  1. Editorial Team

    The SSIS way to create new columns (with static values or not) is to use the “Derived Column” transformation in your dataflow, in between the source and destination.

    This enables you to specify additional columns and their values using an expression. For the current date/time, use Getdate() as the expression and set the datatype to “date (DT_DATE)”. To hard code a value, double-quote it in the expression (e.g. “1”) and specify the relevant data type.

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