Greetings All, I have an SSIS package that does a simple ETL load of a few tables.
I want to be able to log metadata about the load and one of the items I want is to create a group identifier for the load, this identifier will be of the form:
yyyymmddhhmiss
My ETL loads several tables and after each table load I want to stamp a record in my logging table indicating that the table that just loaded was successfully loaded, it had N rows loaded, and it was part of this group (again, yyyymmddhhmiss).
I created a variable that forms an expression to accomplish the "yyyymmddhhmiss". However, every time I reference the variable the date changes and so does my group identifier.
Question: In SSIS (not make any db call) can I create a variable, which is based on a date, that is static. IOW, call it once on the control flow page then reference the value throughout my package and have it be a constant?