Crow1969: Thankyou for your reply 🙂

The last *four* lines of the error log say:

2019-06-21 10:25:47.270 spid66 Attempting to load library 'xpsqlbot.dll' into memory. This is an informational message only. No...

SSC Guru: Thanks for your reply 🙂  I moved the Excel spreadsheet to C:\Testing\StockSample3smaller.xlsx, and tried:

EXEC sp_addlinkedserver

@server = 'ExcelLinkSrv2',

@srvproduct = 'Excel',

@provider = 'Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0',

@datasrc = 'C:\Testing\StockSample3smaller.xlsx',

@provstr = 'Excel 12.0...

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