Sifiso Ndlovu walks us through ragged right formatted files in Integration Services:
The configuration of columns is perhaps a critical part of the entire ETL process as it helps us build mapping metadata for your ETL. In fact, regardless of where or not SSIS/SSMS can detect delimiters, if you skip Column Mapping section – your ETL will fail validation. In order to clarify how Ragged right formatted files work, I have gone a step back and used Figure 4 to actually displayed a preview of our fictitious Fruits transaction dataset from Notepad++. It can already be seen from Notepad++ that the file only has row delimiter in a form of CRLF.
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