SSIS - Visual Studio 2012
I've found that if you use the flat file connection manager, create a new connection and just use the Columns menu item to specify column lengths, the column lengths/types do not persist, i.e if you enter types and lengths, then save it, then open it again, all fields get reset to nvarchar(50). However if you use the Advanced menu item to enter types and lengths, the type and length will persist. However, if you discover that there's data in a column in the file longer than the length you specified, you have to delete the current connection manager and totally reenter all the column specs again because if you just enter a change via the Column menu (Advanced menu not available after Connection Manager defined), the change does not persist when saved.
Is there another way of changing the specs other than deleting and recreating the flat file connection manager? Perhaps manually editing an xml doc hidden somewhere?
Thanks,
Jnana
Jnana Sivananda