How to empty my destination table before inserting new records in SSIS?

Question

I use SSIS to generate and transform new data for later use in a new system. I have a problem every time I run my SSIS Package, it keeps inserting new records to my destination tables.

How can I empty my destination table (/OLE DB Destination) first and then inserting the newly generated records?

Currently the workaround for this problem is performing a delete from DestTable before running my package.

Answer 1

Put your delete statement in an Execute SQL Task. Then make it the first component of your flow. The component looks something like this:

Answer 2

Create an Execute SQL task. Have it run first. For the sqlstatment do.

Truncate table DestTable

Using truncate table is better then using delete as it ignores all the indexes and just removes everything.

For a little background info. I will try and explain why you should use truncate table instead of delete table. Delete table is a row based operation this means that each row is deleted. Truncate table is a data page operation the entire data page is delocated. If you have a table with a million rows it will be much faster to truncate the table then it would be to use a delete table statment.