SSIS - automatically setting Flat File columns data types
Problem: Have a large number of (TSV) files that need to be imported (periodically) (via SSIS package) into existing MSSQL DB tables. Getting many data type issues from the OLE DB Destination tasks eg: [Flat File Source [2]] Error: Data conversion failed. The data conversion for column "PRC_ID" returned status value 2 and status text "The value could not be converted because of a potential loss of data.". and the type suggestions from the connection managers for each table from Flat File Source tasks are not accurate enough to prevent errors when running the import package (and the DB types are the correct ones, so don't want to just make them all (wrongly) strings for the sake of loading the TSVs). Is there a way to load the type data for the columns in some single file rather than one by one in the connection manager window for the Flat File Source tasks (this would be hugely inconvenient as each table may have many fields)? I have the cre