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 had a similar problem. The solution that I implemented was first read the excel file using OleDB connection. Open the connection and then retrieve all the sheet names. Here is an example

Dim strConnectionString As String = "Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=C:\ABC.xls;Extended Properties=""EXCEL 8.0;"""

Dim lstSheetName As List(Of String) = Nothing
Try
 objConn = New OleDbConnection(Me.ConnectionString)
 objConn.Open()
 lstSheetName = New List(Of String)
 Using dtSheetTable As DataTable =       objConn.GetOleDbSchemaTable(OleDbSchemaGuid.Tables,Nothing)

  For Each drRow As DataRow In dtSheetTable.Rows
     lstSheetName.Add("[" & drRow("TABLE_NAME").ToString().Replace("'", "''") & "]")
  Next
 End Using
Catch ex as Exception
 Throw
Finally
 If objConn.State = ConnectionState.Open Then objConn.Close()
 objConn.Dispose()
End Try

This all code is written ASPX.VB and then I am executing the SSIS package through code behind and passing the first value in the lstSheetName variable (lstSheetName(0).ToString())

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