Hi Martina,

I tried yesterday to create connection from my 64 bit Windows in VS. I see no drivers to use when I selected new Ole DB connection (only one Jet driver which seems to be for Access)

Can you please guide me how to create a package on Windows 64 laptop using VS 2019 (I'm creating old style dtsx package not using SSIDB)?

Thanks in advance.

>Hi,
>
>You can create SSIS package as import from xls(x) within using Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0 driver.
>But, if the Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0 driver inslaled on server with MSSQL, you can use the driver directly:
>
>

>SELECT *
>  FROM OPENROWSET('Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0' ,  'Excel 8.0;Database=\\server\file.xlsx;HDR=Yes', 'SELECT * FROM [SheetName$]')
>  WHERE NOT "Datum do" IS NULL
>
>INSERT INTO OPENROWSET('Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0' , 'Excel 8.0;Database=\\server\file.xlsx;HDR=Yes', 'SELECT * FROM [SheetName$]')
> SELECT '2017-01-12', '2017-01-13','AAA','BBB',30,'GJ'
>
>UPDATE OPENROWSET('Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0' , 'Excel 8.0;Database=\\server\file.xlsx;HDR=No', 'SELECT * FROM [SheetName$A4:A4]')
> SET F1=1111
>

>
> MartinaJ
>
>>Hi everybody,
>>
>>I'm wondering what are my options of using an SSIS package to read data from Excel without having Excel installed on the server? The package is executed as part of the job. Is there an easy way to convert Excel to csv (say, using Powershell script (but without Excel installed, so no COM automation)) or as a .NET script task?
>>
>>Do you have ideas?
>>
>>Thanks in advance.