I tried the same but i get th following error
OLE DB provider “Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0″ for linked server “(null)” returned message “The Microsoft Jet database engine could not find the object ‘Sheet1$’. Make sure the object exists and that you spell its name and the path name correctly.”.
Msg 7350, Level 16, State 2, Line 1
Cannot get the column information from OLE DB provider “Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0″ for linked server “(null)”.

Can u please help me how to solve this ,
can i use the same in server 2008.

Please help me

One problem I am having. Numeric fields that I am exporting to excel are entered into the excel sheet as text.

I have formatted the column in the excel sheet to number and I am still getting text. Any ideas how to fix this?

Thanks

You generally see this type of error if you have not put the Column headers into Sheet1 of your spreadsheet .

ColumnHeaders must be the same as the Field Names.

Ensure that you have a space between Excel and 8.0 in the OPENROWSET section ie

INSERT INTO OPENROWSET (‘Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0′,
‘Excel 8.0; Database=c:\somesheet.xls;’
,’SELECT * FROM [Sheet1$]‘)

after run your script with my data i get the next error messge.
please help me

Msg 213, Level 16, State 1, Line 1
Insert Error: Column name or number of supplied values does not match table definition.

For the solution you gave regarding exporting data from SQL server to Excel sheet, is there any alternative that the file should be manually created along wid a header row.

Is there any way the excel sheet too can be created with a header row defined by running a command line script from the sql promt so that the file along wid header is created at the same time just before data is inserted into that excel sheet i.e creating a dynamic query in which the file path , filename, column headers are specified in variables

Please help out.

Thanx

Solution :

Make sure your the file path and SQL server are in the same PC

Is possible to insert data from SQL Server to an Excel Spreadsheet that has a password protection? I need this because I want to prevent User Editing…

Tks a lot!!!

1. Go to Tools>>Options>>Query Results>>Sql Server>>Results to text: specify the output format to “Tab delimited”

2.While executing the query – set Resultset to show as text instead of in grid (Ctrl + Q + T)

3. Select all from the Resultset and save Results as “name.csv” or “name.xls”

- Praveen

INSERT INTO OPENROWSET (‘Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0;Database=C:\Documents and Settings\Thato\My Documents\contact.xlsx;’,'SELECT * FROM [Sheet1$]‘)
SELECT TOP 5 CallName, Surname
FROM DTIHeadcount
Where Period = 200904
——————–
I get a syntax error:
Msg 102, Level 15, State 1, Line 1
Incorrect syntax near ‘)’.

Please help

I have a problem here. My codes works well. Everything seems fine. My problem is, whenever I upload large files like 18 mb .xls file, It shows page cannot be displayed. I’m working with a project for a large scale company. I really need this. this one works in SQLquery but not in my app. I hope someone would help me quick. INSERT INTO dbo.data SELECT * FROM OPENROWSET(‘Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0′,
‘Excel 8.0;Database=C:\Documents and Settings\…analysis.xls’, [data$])

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Sample from below link :

insert into OPENROWSET(‘Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0′,
‘Excel 8.0;Database=D:\testing.xls;’,
‘SELECT * FROM [SheetName$]‘) select * from SQLServerTable

Please visit this link to get more details.

Link : http://www.sqlteam.com/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=49926

~ IM.

INSERT INTO OPENROWSET (‘Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0′, ‘Excel 8.0;Database=C:\temp\test.xls;’,
‘SELECT aftercare_id,participant_id,r_followup_period_id FROM [Sheet1$]‘)
SELECT [aftercare_id],[participant_id],[r_followup_period_id]
FROM view_1
go

The above code works, but it will allow me to put only 7 columns, if i put ‘*’ it is not inserting data into excel, could you please tell me how to fix this problem

i have 30 columns in my view. i want to use all columns, could you please respond to me as early as possible.

Thanks,
Roy

There are a tleast 5 ways of doing this, please look at the below link for more details.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/321686

IM

pls help me i am a ferser……………..