Issue – you run an SSIS package that uses an Excel Source or Excel Destination and get the following error: [Connection manager "Excel Connection Manager"] Error: SSIS Error Code DTS_E_OLEDBERROR. An OLE DB error has occurred. Error code: 0×80004005. An OLE DB record is available. Source: "Microsoft Access Database Engine" Hresult: 0×80004005 Description: "The Microsoft … Continued
Are you loading data from an Excel workbook with external queries using SSIS? Do you want to make sure those queries are refreshed before the load takes place? Have I got the post for you! I recently had to do this myself, and after some googling with Bing, I found an MSDN forum post that … Continued
In my first Data Explorer post, I pulled a list of event data from the SQL Saturday website. I then showed how to do dynamic lookups against an address verification service to pull back location data about the event’s venue. In this post I’ll complete my experiment and plot out each location on a map … Continued
In my previous post, I used Data Explorer to grab the list of upcoming events from the SQL Saturday website. Excel has had the ability to grab data from HTML pages for awhile, but using Data Explorer provided a richer set of options, and allowed me to apply a series of transforms to get the … Continued
This week the Data Explorer team announced that a preview of their Excel add-in is now available! I’ve been meaning to try it out for a while, so I went ahead and downloaded the Office 2013 version then walked through some of the tutorials on the Office Help site. Once the add-in is installed, it … Continued