Import Excel Spreadsheet Data to an EXISTING sql table?

Question

I have a table called tblAccounts whose contents will come from an excel spreadsheet.

I am using MS SQL Server 2008 (x64) on a Windows 8.1 (x64)

I tried using th

Answer 1

Saudate, I ran across this looking for a different problem. You most definitely can use the Sql Server Import wizard to import data into a new table. Of course, you do not wish to leave that table in the database, so my suggesting is that you import into a new table, then script the data in query manager to insert into the existing table. You can add a line to drop the temp table created by the import wizard as the last step upon successful completion of the script.

I believe your original issue is in fact related to Sql Server 64 bit and is due to your having a 32 bit Excel and these drivers don't play well together. I did run into a very similar issue when first using 64 bit excel.