DataType Conversion Utility for Biml

Catherine Wilhelmsen provided the basis for this quick utility. She explains the translation between SSIS, SQL Server and Biml data types. I simply wrapped

Shannon Lowder

22 Jul 2017

DataType Conversion Utility for Biml

Catherine Wilhelmsen provided the basis for this quick utility. She explains the translation between SSIS, SQL Server and Biml data types. I simply wrapped that data into a script we could reference in our scripts.

See the code here.

Since we have a problem with Biml generating packages with Datetime2 data types, we convert datetime2 -> datetime to get around the issue.

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