Exporting a table into multiple text files based on rows

Question

Hi,

First of all, I'm very bad at SSIS and has hardly never used it, so bear with me.

I have this table, with about 8 million rows in SQL Server, and I would like to split it into four different text files, with about 2 million rows per file. I'm thinking conditional split, but I do not know how I can base the export on how many rows that is processed. Can anyone help me...? 

Answer 1

In order to do that, you'll need to add some kind of a row count to your extracted data.  You have a few choices:

1. The SQL RANK function.
2. A Script component that will number your rows.
3. A custom Row Numbering component.

Then you can Conditional Split your rows based on that row number.

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