SQL Server and MS BI With a Geek Touch

Today, I came across a requirement, where the source excel sheet had data starting from row number 6 and column B. This was due to formating in the excel, which was also used as a report by many stake holders.

Although at first it might seem like there are no options in excel source to skip certain rows from the beginning of the sheet, it is not true. Fortunately, excel source provides the feature to select only required records from any sheet.  the OpenRowset property on the Excel Datasource component  allows you to specify the range to be considered by the datasource.

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