How to find which OLE provider is available for SQL Server?

Question

I try to access an Excel file in SSMS. After searching the internet, I could not get it working.
Here is what I did:

My environment:

Windows 7(64bit) SP 1, 
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 (SP3) - 10.0.5500.0 (X64)   
Office 2010 Pro Plus with Access installed(32 bit)

1. Try to change config for OLE like:

   exec sp_configure 'Advanced', 1
   RECONFIGURE
   
   exec sp_configure 'Ad Hoc Distributed Queries', 1
   RECONFIGURE
   
   EXEC master.dbo.sp_MSset_oledb_prop N'Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0', N'AllowInProcess', 1  
   EXEC master.dbo.sp_MSset_oledb_prop N'Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0', N'DynamicParameters', 1
   

2. Run query:

   SELECT * FROM OPENROWSET('MICROSOFT.ACE.OLEDB.12.0','Text;Database=C:\Temp\;','SELECT * FROM [test.csv]')
   

   or

   SELECT * FROM OPENROWSET('MICROSOFT.JET.OLEDB.4.0','Text;Database=C:\Temp\;','SELECT * FROM [test.csv]')
   

For both cases, I got an error message like:

Msg 7308, Level 16, State 1, Line 1
OLE DB provider 'MICROSOFT.JET.OLEDB.4.0' cannot be used for distributed queries because the provider is configured to run in single-threaded apartment mode.

or

Msg 7308, Level 16, State 1, Line 1
OLE DB provider 'MICROSOFT.ACE.OLEDB.12.0' cannot be used for distributed queries because the provider is configured to run in single-threaded apartment mode.

Then I checked the linked server on SQL server, and there are 10 providers by default by run system sp:

EXEC master.dbo.sp_MSset_oledb_prop 

SQLOLEDB
MSOLAP
SQLNCLI11
ADsDSOObject
SQLNCLI
SQLNCLI10
Search.CollatorDSO
MSDASQL
MSDAOSP
MSIDXS

How to resolve this problem? How do I know if MICROSOFT.ACE.OLEDB.12.0 or MICROSOFT.JET.OLEDB.4.0 is available for SQL Server?

Answer 1

For file type with extention .xlsx use 'Excel 12.0' or 'Excel 12.0 Xml' instead of Excel 9.0

SELECT *
FROM OPENROWSET('Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0', 'Excel 12.0;Database=C:\Temp\Test.xlsx;', 'SELECT * FROM [Location1$]')

If you are connecting to Microsoft Office Excel data, add the appropriate Extended Properties of the OLEDB connection string based on the Excel file type:

File Type (extension)                               Extended Properties
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Excel 97-2003 Workbook (.xls)                       "Excel 8.0"
Excel 2007-2010 Workbook (.xlsx)                    "Excel 12.0 Xml"
Excel 2007-2010 Macro-enabled workbook (.xlsm)      "Excel 12.0 Macro"
Excel 2007-2010 Non-XML binary workbook (.xlsb)     "Excel 12.0"