SSIS - insert system date variable as a execute sql task parameter

Question

I am trying to insert the system:starttime variable into a table by passing a parameter into an execute sql task.

I dont have much knowledge of SSIS data types, and I am currently having trouble making this functionality work. When I set the parameters datatype to nvarchar, the date is always inserted as 1/1/1900. When I use the DBDATE type, the insert fails with the following error

unsupported data type on parameter binding 0

So my question is how do I pass a SSIS date variable into an execute sql task so that SQL Server can interpret it correctly?

Answer 1

According to BOL DT_DBDATE is "A date structure that consists of year, month, and day". Which can't be used to store System::StartTime output as its DATETIME by data type, so try to use datatype DT_DATE instead of DBDATE. As datatype DT_DATE "A date structure that consists of year, month, day, hour, minute, seconds, and fractional seconds. The fractional seconds have a fixed scale of 7 digits."