Import data from Excel using SSIS without knowing sheet name

Question

I have a spreadsheet that is updated by another server (out of my control) and I need to automate bringing that data into SQL 2005. The data is always the first page of the

Answer 1

I would script out the Worksheet name to a SSIS User Variable. If you are not opposed to inserting a script task into your SSIS package try this: (Based on link text )

Excel.Application xlApp = new Excel.ApplicationClass();
Excel.Workbook xlWorkBook = xlApp.Workbooks.Open(".xls", 0, xlWorkBook true, 5, "", "", true, Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.XlPlatform.xlWindows, "\t", false, false, 0, true, 1, 0);
// Look up worksheet by index
Excel.Worksheet xlWorkSheet =(Excel.Worksheet)xlWorkBook.Worksheets.get_Item(1);

user::worksheetname = xlWorkSheet.Name;

/* Do clean up.  Working with COM object */