Hello I work with sqlserver2005 express ,I try to populate my table student by: the first field data by the first column of an excel file. other field by 123.12 ... My code is INSERT INTO student (Ch1, ch2, ch3) SELECT ch1, 123 AS ch2, 124 AS ch3 FROM OPENROWSET('Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0', 'Excel 8.0;Database=C:\test\xltest.xls', [Feuil1$]) but i have this mesage : Unable to initialize the object from the data source OLE DB provider "Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0" for linked server "(null)". Thanks :)