/* https://www.mssqltips.com/sqlservertip/6178/read-excel-file-in-sql-server-with-openrowset-or-opendatasource/ */ CREATE TABLE #Provider ( ProviderName varchar(100) NOT NULL , [ParseName] varchar(100) NOT NULL , ProviderDescription varchar(100) NOT NULL ); INSERT INTO #Provider EXEC sys.sp_enum_oledb_providers; IF NOT EXISTS (SELECT 1 FROM #Provider WHERE ProviderName LIKE 'Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB%') PRINT('Please install Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB driver: 16 - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=54920 or 12 - https://www.microsoft.com/en-US/download/details.aspx?id=13255'); ELSE PRINT('Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB is installed. Go next.'); IF (SELECT "value" FROM sys.configurations WHERE "name" = 'Ad Hoc Distributed Queries') <> 1 BEGIN EXEC sp_configure 'show advanced option', '1'; RECONFIGURE; EXEC sp_configure 'Ad Hoc Distributed Queries', 1; RECONFIGURE; END; EXEC master.[sys].[sp_MSset_oledb_prop] N'Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.16.0', N'AllowInProcess', 0; SELECT * FROM OPENROWSET( 'Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.16.0' , 'Excel 12.0;Database=g:\MSSQL17\Instagram_Statistics.xlsx' , 'SELECT * FROM [decoupagpro$]') AS op;