How to add date and time to Flat File Connection Manager

I have specified a name for my output file in the properties of my Flat File Connection but how can I add the date and time to that filename? If it is using expressions, what would be the expression and where exactly do I paste that expression?

Nice one:

Expression:

"FileNameBase_" + (DT_WSTR,15)(DT_DBDATE)GETDATE() + "_" + (DT_WSTR, 15)(DT_DBTIME)GETDATE()

Looks like this:

FileNameBase_2006-01-03_08:55:28

Place is on the Connection String property of the Flat File Connection Manager.

HTH,

K

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I have the following expression attached to the ConnectionString property of a File Connection Manager:

@.[System::PackageName] + (DT_STR, 4, 1252) DATEPART( "yyyy", @.[System::StartTime] ) + RIGHT("0" + (DT_STR, 2, 1252) DATEPART( "mm", @.[System::StartTime] ), 2) + RIGHT("0" + (DT_STR, 4, 1252) DATEPART( "dd", @.[System::StartTime] ), 2) + RIGHT("0" + (DT_STR, 4, 1252) DATEPART( "hh", @.[System::StartTime] ), 2) + RIGHT("0" + (DT_STR, 4, 1252) DATEPART( "mi", @.[System::StartTime] ), 2) + RIGHT("0" + (DT_STR, 4, 1252) DATEPART( "ss", @.[System::StartTime] ), 2) + ".log"

Which looks horrible, I know, but evaluates to something alot more user-friendly:

PackageName20060103084130.log

You can choose to make this as difficult or simple as you like. For example

@.[System::PackageName] + (DT_STR, 30, 1252) @.[System::StartTime]

evaluates to:

PackageName03/01/2006 08:41:30

Hope that helps!!

-Jamie

|||Thanks a lot! this gives me a real good start to working more with expressions in SSIS|||

one more question. I tried putting it at the end of my string but it doesn't like it because it is malformed:

C:\Documents and Settings\sss\Desktop\output.txt + (DT_WSTR,15)(DT_DBDATE)GETDATE() + "_" + (DT_WSTR, 15)(DT_DBTIME)GETDATE()

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Gotta escape the '\' character and gotta be in quotes... :)

"C:\\Documents and Settings\\sss\\Desktop\\output.txt" + (DT_WSTR,15)(DT_DBDATE)GETDATE() + "_" + (DT_WSTR, 15)(DT_DBTIME)GETDATE()