

If we do have to install excel on that server, does the version have to be excel 2007 in order to programmatically save it as type 2007? The dba is resistant to this idea, so I thought I'd see if anyone has any other ideas?

If we install excel on the db server I realize i could probably open it up and save it as excel 2007 and that would do the trick, but Could not find installable ISAM.”Īm I missing something? Is there something else that simply opening and saving the file might be doing to make it paletable to ssis? “Test connection failed because of an error in initializing provider. I then tried to access the file with the OLE DB provider, as above, but instead of entering 12.0 on the Extended properties line, enteringĩ.0 or 14.0 in turn (creating new sources/connections each time), and when I do that, both times I get an error that says: (in case it was in another version of excel and someone just changed the ext) I have tried to use an excel 2003 connection to connect to a copy of the file with a modified extension of. I have been trying to figure out what saving the file is doing to change it to be in the expected format. When I try to run my ETL on the files in the automated process, it fails with the above error. I found out today that the people who manually did this process were each time opening the file and then saving it to the correct location The files from the ftp site, unzips them, validates all the expected files are there, renames and relocates the files to the names/locations expected by my ETL, and then runs the ETL. My import package(s) has (have) been running manually for the last 2-3 weeks, but now i've finished an automated system that downloads The provider selected was the ole db "Microsoft office 12.0 Access Database Engine.", and in the All tab I entered "Excelġ2.0" at the top where it says Extended properties. External table is not in the expected format."

"Test connection failed because of an error in initializing provider. xlsx file, I get the error message that says: When I create my connection manager to connect to a. Thanks in advance for your review and am hopeful for a reply. I did come upon this Posting previously.in italics below but it fell short in terms of providing a solution. So my question is this.How in God's name can I try and process this.
