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Yesterday's Date Expression with leading zeros

Right( "0" + (DT_WSTR, 2 ) MONTH(Getdate()),2)  + (DT_WSTR, 8) ((DT_I4)Right( "0" + (DT_WSTR, 2 ) DAY (Getdate()),2)    -1) + Right((DT_WSTR,4)YEAR(GETD ATE()),2)

Usefull SSIS tools

Today I'm listing 4 of my useful SSIS third party tools 1-BIDS Helper, The variables extension is an amazing and a must tool for changing the variable's scope   http://bidshelper.codeplex.com/ 2-Validate, create and test variable outide BIDS   SSIS Expression Editor & Tester 3-SSIS Component Explorer http://www.sqllion.com/2009/06/ssis-component-explorer/ 4-SSIS Log Analyzer http://ssisloganalyzer.codeplex.com/ Hope that helps.

Strip the file name out of the file path

Strip the file's name out of the file path: Example: [User::strTest] Value = C:\Test\TestTextFile.TXT Results: TestTextFile.TXT RIGHT(@[User::strTest],FINDSTRING(REVERSE(@[User::strTest]),"\\",1)-1) Strip the file's extension out of the file path: Example: [User::strTest] Value = C:\Test\TestTextFile.TXT Results: TXT RIGHT(@[User::strTest],FINDSTRING(REVERSE(@[User::strTest]),".",1)-1)