How do I fix ‘Invalid character value for cast specification’ on a date column in flat file?

I was ultimately able to resolve the solution by setting the column type in the flat file connection to be of type “database date [DT_DBDATE]”

Apparently the differences between these date formats are as follow:

DT_DATE A date structure that consists of year, month, day, and hour.

DT_DBDATE A date structure that consists of year, month, and day.

DT_DBTIMESTAMP A timestamp structure that consists of year, month, hour, minute, second, and fraction

By changing the column type to DT_DBDATE the issue was resolved – I attached a Data Viewer and the CYCLE_DATE value was now simply “12/20/2010” without a time component, which apparently resolved the issue.

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