

Use the Connection Manager page of the Flat File Destination Editor dialog box to select the flat file connection for the destination, and to specify whether to overwrite or append to the existing destination file. Flat File Destination Editor (Connection Manager Page) For more information about the properties that you can set in the Advanced Editor dialog box or programmatically, click one of the following topics:įor information about how to set the properties of a data flow component, see Set the Properties of a Data Flow Component.

The Advanced Editor dialog box reflects the properties that can be set programmatically. You can set properties through SSIS Designer or programmatically. Configuration of the Flat File Destination For more information, see Integration Services (SSIS) Expressions, Use Property Expressions in Packages, and Flat File Custom Properties. This property can be updated by a property expression when the package is loaded. The Flat File destination includes the Header custom property.

For more information, see Flat File Connection Manager. For example, you specify the characters that delimit columns and rows in the file, and you specify the data type and the length of each column. When you configure the Flat File connection manager, you specify information about the file and about each column in the file. By setting properties on the Flat File connection manager that the Flat File destination uses, you can specify how the Flat File destination formats and writes the text file. This destination uses a Flat File connection manager to access the text file. Specify whether to overwrite a data in a destination file that has the same name. The text can provide information such as column headings. Provide a block of text that is inserted in the file before any data is written. You can configure the Flat File destination in the following ways: The text file can be in delimited, fixed width, fixed width with row delimiter, or ragged right format. The Flat File destination writes data to a text file. SSIS Integration Runtime in Azure Data Factory
