openrowset for excel: can we skip several rows?

Question

I will use the following sql to read data from excel, but sometimes I need to skip first several rows. e.g the real data begins from line 5, so I need to skip the first 4 ro

Answer 1

Use a range [sheet1$A5:Z] instead of the entire sheet [sheet1$]

SELECT *
FROM OPENROWSET(
    'Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0',
    'Excel 12.0;HDR=YES;Database=c:\daniel\test.xls',
    'SELECT * FROM [sheet1$A5:Z]'
);