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SSIS Excel Error: Unexpected error from external database driver () when importing data from excel


Recently I had copied a excel file for analysis from SFTP site to development server from my account and asked my team mate to analyze it, by loading it into table.

He logged in to the server and used a simple data flow task in SSIS with source as Excel to load the data. When he was connecting excel using excel connection manager, he had a weird error.

Unexpected error from external database driver () 

He was unsure of why he was getting the error when selecting the sheet names. Then when reported, we quickly got into the possible reason of security.

As I copied the file from SFTP to Development machine using my account, it had limited the access to other users. When he was trying to load, he was facing the error because it was a read-only file for him.

Soon I granted full permission to him on excel security and it worked for him.

There are various different solution on internet but initially none worked for us when we were trying to resolve. Hope this solution would help someone!! 


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