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Title: Openrowset for Excel<br />
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Just did a quick search and found this... I guess it is a similar query as yours.

Title: Openrowset for Excel
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en/transactsql/thread/1ed0751c-2014-4b02-b118-73f318d7da87 [http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en/transactsql/thread/1ed0751c-2014-4b02-b118-73f318d7da87]

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OLE DB provider 'Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0' cannot be used for distributed queries because the provider is configured to run in single-threaded apartment mode.<br />
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OLE DB provider 'Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0' cannot be used for distributed queries because the provider is configured to run in single-threaded apartment mode.

Excel connection string in sqlserver 2008 R2

Microsoft Excel topics include formulas, formatting, VBA macros and user-defined functions, and everything else related to the spreadsheet user interface, including error messages.

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 is a suite of relational database management system (RDBMS) products providing multi-user database access functionality.Component services include integration (SSIS), reporting (SSRS), analysis (SSAS), data quality, master data, T-SQL and performance tuning. Major improvements include the  Always On technologies and support for unstructured data types.