PolyBase and Excel

I have a post on setting up PolyBase to work with Microsoft Excel:

If you tried to use Microsoft’s Excel driver prior to 2019 CU2, you’d get the following error:

Msg 105082, Level 16, State 1, Line LineNumber
105082;Generic ODBC error: [Microsoft][ODBC Excel Driver]Optional feature not implemented

To this point, I recommended in PolyBase Revealed that you use a different driver, like CData’s, which did work. CData’s driver still works (I assume…PolyBase ODBC support is a fluid situation, it seems), but now I can officially say that PolyBase supports the Microsoft Access Database Engine Redistributable driver for Microsoft Excel. Let’s go to the tape.

Click through for the instructions.