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Loading data from Excel file into SQL table

  • January 12, 2011 at 5:41 pm

    #104023

    Hello everyone,

    I have an Excel file with just one field and it contains numbers. I want to read the Excel file into a table in SQL Server. I have tried to use

    select * into tablename

    FROM OPENROWSET('Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0', 'Excel 8.0;Database=D:\testing.xls;HDR=YES', 'SELECT * FROM [Sheet1$]')

    However I am unsuccessful because I get the following error

    Msg 7308, Level 16, State 1, Line 2

    OLE DB provider 'Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0' cannot be used for distributed queries because the provider is configured to run in single-threaded apartment mode.

    Can you please help me out. I dont want to use SSIS. All I want is T-SQL.

    Thank you all in advance.

  • January 13, 2011 at 3:44 am

    #1272913

    Hi

    Try this useful link

    http://beyondrelational.com/blogs/madhivanan/archive/2007/08/27/import-export-to-excel.aspx

  • January 13, 2011 at 3:50 am

    #1272917

    Junglee_George (1/13/2011)

    Hi

    Try this useful link

    http://beyondrelational.com/blogs/madhivanan/archive/2007/08/27/import-export-to-excel.aspx%5B/quote%5D

    :ermm:

    Did you read the original question? The link you provided just explains how to import data from excel using the OPENROWSET command. The OP has already done that, there is a problem with the provider.

    @divya-2: check if distributed queries are enabled in your db:

    EXEC sp_configure 'ad hoc distributed queries'

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  • January 13, 2011 at 7:47 am

    #1273048

    Just curious, have you tried using the Import Data Wizard? I'm not sure it will meet your needs or not, but you can frequently get a lot more error information out of that than with OPENROWSET. It might help, just to try.

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  • January 14, 2011 at 11:38 am

    #1273711

    Here are the steps to allow distributed ad hoc queries:

    sp_configure 'show advanced options', 1

    reconfigure

    sp_configure 'Ad Hoc Distributed Queries', 1

    reconfigure with override

    This should handle the problem.

    Todd Fifield

  • January 15, 2011 at 2:41 pm

    #1273943

    Hi all,

    sp_configure 'show advanced options', 1

    reconfigure

    sp_configure 'Ad Hoc Distributed Queries', 1

    reconfigure with override

    With this script I was able to read from the Excel file. Thank you all for helping me..

  • January 15, 2011 at 7:21 pm

    #1273951

    Divya,

    Glad to be of help.

    Todd Fifield

  • August 7, 2013 at 4:57 pm

    #1639594

    Hi all,

    I've checked my configuration with sp_configure and 'Ad Hoc Distributed Queries' value is 1.

    And when I exec my script to import Excel data into SQL table it returns this:

    Msg 7308, Level 16, State 1, Line 2

    OLE DB provider 'Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0' cannot be used for distributed queries because the provider is configured to run in single-threaded apartment mode.

    The syntax is OK and the Configuration too. So, Why I'm getting that error message?

    Thanks in advance.

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