getting an Unexpected error from external database driver (1) when importing data from excel to access

Question

I have a 2010 Excel file with a sheet that spans 34864 rows and 1387 columns. I\'m trying to import it into Access 2010 with

Answer 1

Check out this for Access 2010 specification: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/access-help/access-2010-specifications-HA010341462.aspx.

In your case, it might be number of columns, so try to import less than 255 first. Also, it might be the size of the data in the columns or data types (importing text into numeric etc.)