Dividing the sale amount by month

Hello,

I want to process a row from a source table by dividing the sales amount in that row over the period of the sale by month.

For instance if an item is sold for 500$ and it's duration is 5 months from 1/15/2004 till 6/15/2004, I want to divide the sale amount by month as follows:

Month 1: 50$

Month 2: 100$

Month 3: 100$

Month 4: 100$

Month 5: 100$

Month 6: 50$

I know I can create a script component and do the calculation for each month and insert 6 records in the fact table for each row in the source table, where each record holds the amount for the corresponding month. However I was wondering if there is another technique that utilizes the components of SSIS to do it more efficiently.

Thanks,

Grace

Its definately possible but I would say if you've already figured out how to do it in script component why bother trying to do it elsewhere? I doubt you'd be able to do it more efficiently either!

-Jamie

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Thanks Jamie,

I just wanted to confirm my method. I always tend to think that script component is not much efficient especially when i'm using it to open connection to the database and insert multiple rows. It is faster when SQL Destination is used. But in my case i can't use the destination component.

Grace

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There's no problem with perf of the script component. It is compiled code (different from DTS) so it is very quick!

-Jamie