ADO.NET Provider for Microsoft Excel

Build 26.0.9655

Changelog

General Changes

DateVersionSourceCategoryTypeDescription
2026-05-2726.0.9643GeneralConnectionRemoved
  • Removed the deprecated ReplaceInvalidTypesWithNull connection property. Use the ReplaceInvalidValuesWithNull property instead.
2026-05-2126.0.9637Microsoft ExcelConnectionChanged
  • When the ConnectionType connection property is set to "SharePointSOAP", the driver only supports SharePointEdition=SharePointOnPremise. Setting the SharePointEdition connection property to "SharePointOnline" is not supported for this connection type. Use ConnectionType=SharePointGRAPH or ConnectionType=SharePointRESTv1 to connect to SharePoint Online.
2026-05-1326.0.9629Microsoft ExcelConnectionChanged
  • The MetadataDiscoveryURI property now supports relative file paths for use with cloud resources.
2026-05-0726.0.9623GeneralData ModelAdded
  • Added the ColumnCapabilities column to the sys_tablecolumns system table. This column is a bit mask denoting the column's write capabilities.
2026-04-2926.0.9615Microsoft ExcelConnectionAdded
  • Added support for authentication via EKSPodIdentity. For descriptions of the related connection properties (AWSContainerCredentialsFullURI and AWSContainerAuthorizationTokenFile), see the AWS Authentication Properties section of the Connection String Options chapter.
2026-04-2826.0.9614ADO.NETConnectionAdded
  • Added the following functions to the driver class. If you pass these functions an exception with no error records, an InvalidArgumentException is thrown.
    • containsErrorSource: Returns true if the exception contains an error record for the provided source name, or false otherwise.
    • getErrorCodeFromSource: Returns the numeric error code from the error record with the given source, or -1 if there is no error record from that source.
    • containsErrorCode: Returns true if the exception contains an error record with the provided error code, or false otherwise.
    • findErrorProperty: Returns the value of the property with the given name, or null if no property with that name is defined.
    • formatErrorRecords: Returns a string containing all the exception's error records, including messages, codes, properties, and error locations.
2026-04-2326.0.9609Microsoft ExcelConnectionAdded
  • Added the "SharePoint REST V1" connection type to the ConnectionType connection property. This connection type uses the SharePoint REST V1 API and supports both on-premise and cloud SharePoint instances. The URI prefix for this connection type is "sprestv1://".
2026-04-2326.0.9609Microsoft ExcelConnectionChanged
  • Renamed the "SharePoint REST" connection type to "SharePoint GRAPH" in the ConnectionType connection property and updated its URI prefix from "sprest://" to "spgraph://".
2026-04-1526.0.9601GeneralQuery ExecChanged
  • String comparisons using GREATER, LESS, and CONTAINS operators are now case-insensitive by default.
2026-04-0126.0.9587ADO.NETAdded
  • Added support for EFCore 10.
2026-04-0126.0.9587Microsoft ExcelConnectionRemoved
  • Removed deprecated connection property ExcelFile. Connection property URI replaces ExcelFile's functionality.
2026-04-0126.0.9587Microsoft ExcelConnectionRemoved
  • The TestConnectionBehavior connection property's LIST_AND_READ_FILES option has been replaced by a new option, LIST_OR_READ_FILES. Use LIST_OR_READ_FILES instead.
  • The HMAC AuthScheme has been removed. This change affects Oracle Cloud Storage, Wasabi, and IBM Object Storage connections. Use IAMSecretKey instead.
2026-02-1125.0.9538Microsoft ExcelConnectionChanged
  • Added a new option, AUTHENTICATE, to the TestConnectionBehavior connection property. When Authenticate is specified, the driver makes a simple API call to check if the provided credentials are valid.
  • Fixed some incorrect behaviors for all options of the TestConnectionBehavior connection property.
  • Improved error handling, normalized errors, and added error codes to differentiate different storage errors.
2026-02-0925.0.9536Microsoft ExcelAdded
  • Added the new option LIST_OR_READ_FILES to the TestConnectionBehavior connection property.
2026-02-0925.0.9536Microsoft ExcelDeprecated
  • Marked the LIST_AND_READ_FILES option in the TestConnectionBehavior connection property for deprecation.
2026-01-1325.0.9509GeneralAdded
  • Added support for the REGEXP_REPLACE() string function.
2025-12-0525.0.9470GeneralAdded
  • Added support for the INSERT INTO SELECT statement, with driver-side execution for providers that do not support the operation natively.
2025-12-0525.0.9470Microsoft ExcelConnectionAdded
  • Added ReadAsEmptyOrNull as a new option for the NullValueMode connection property. When NullValueMode is set to ReadAsEmptyOrNull, empty strings are reported for string columns, and NULL values are reported for other data types, as applicable.
2025-10-0625.0.9410GeneralAdded
  • Support for parsing datetime formats using ".S" and ",S" for milliseconds and nanoseconds.
2025-09-1225.0.9386GeneralAdded
  • Added the IsInsertable, IsUpdateable, and IsDeleteable columns to the sys_tables table.
2025-09-1025.0.9384GeneralChanged
  • All columns in statically defined Views are now reported as read-only.
2025-09-0325.0.9377GeneralChanged
  • Corrected the behavior when IN criteria with NULL values are used in the projection part. It now returns NULL instead of 0. For example, "NULL IN (1,2)" returns "NULL".
2025-09-0125.0.9375GeneralAdded
  • Added support for using the CAST function with infinity values. This function can cast "inf" and "-inf" to DOUBLE, FLOAT, or REAL.
2025-08-2125.0.9364GeneralChanged
  • Report behavior change:
    • Fixed inconsistent string value comparisons in non-table queries.
    • For example, "SELECT 'A' = 'a'" previously returned false, but it now returns true.
2025-08-1325.0.9356GeneralChanged
  • Changed the maximum number of pages held in memory from 15 to 5 for the page providers to decrease heap usage.
2025-07-2525.0.9337Microsoft ExcelAdded
  • Added the IncludeFiles and ExcludeFiles connection properties.
2025-07-1825.0.9330Microsoft ExcelRemoved
  • Removed the OAuthGrantType property. The grant type is now set implicitly through the 'AuthScheme' property. For example, you can use the 'OAuthPassword' AuthScheme instead of AuthScheme=OAuth with OAuthGrantType=Password.
2025-06-2525.0.9307GeneralRemoved
  • Removed the "ADLS Gen 1" value from the ConnectionType property.
2025-06-2025.0.9302GeneralAdded
  • Created the following functions:
    • TEXT_ENCODE: encodes a string into a different charset (UTF8 → UTF7 and returns a binary array as the result).
    • TEXT_DECODE: takes a binary array and decodes it back into a string when provided the charset.
    • BASE64_ENCODE: takes a binary array and encodes it as a base64 string (varchar).
    • BASE64_DECODE: takes a base 64-encoded string and decodes it into a binary array.
2025-06-2025.0.9302Microsoft ExcelAdded
  • Added the TestConnectionBehavior connection property.
2025-06-1825.0.9300GeneralChanged
  • The internal code for exception handling has been refactored. Exception messages returned during certain error conditions may now have different wording or formatting.
2025-06-1225.0.9294Microsoft ExcelAdded
  • Added the following stored procedures: UploadFile, DownloadFile, and DeleteFile. These stored procedures accept only file paths that are relative to the connection URI. Note that UploadFile and DownloadFile are not available for ConnectionType=Local.
2025-06-0925.0.9291Microsoft ExcelRemoved
  • Removed the ProjectId property for the Google Cloud Storage ConnectionType.
2025-05-2925.0.9280ADO.NETChanged
  • We have improved our implementation of the ADO.NET DbDataReader.GetDataTypeName so that it now returns database data type names, such as varchar, tinyint, and datetime. Previously we returned the fully-qualified name of the column’s .NET type, in a format like "System.String, System.Private.CoreLib, Version=6.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=7cec85d7bea7798e".
2025-05-2725.0.9278ADO.NETRemoved
  • Removed support for the C# implementation of SQLite. Features that previously used this implementation by default, such as AutoCache and EF6 schema caching, now require the native SQLite driver.
2025-05-2725.0.9278GeneralRemoved
  • Removed the "Proprietary" enum option from ProxyAuthscheme.
2025-05-1525.0.9266Microsoft ExcelAdded
  • Added support for reading .7z (7-Zip) archive files.
2025-04-0725.0.9228Microsoft ExcelAdded
  • Added support for the IAMSecretKey AuthScheme for cloud storage connections that use access and secret key credentials. This naming better reflects the underlying authentication method and aligns with terminology used by cloud storage providers.
2025-04-0725.0.9228Microsoft ExcelDeprecated
  • Deprecated the HMAC AuthScheme. While it remains supported for backward compatibility, it is no longer recommended due to naming ambiguity.
2025-02-1524.0.9177GeneralAdded
  • Added support for converting unsigned integer types to the nearest signed data type that has enough precision to hold the unsigned value.This is done for JDBC only because it does not have support for unsigned data types.
2024-11-2724.0.9097GeneralAdded
  • Added ThreadId to LogModule output. Logfile lines now include the Thread ID associated with the action being performed.
2024-11-0624.0.9076Microsoft ExcelAdded
  • Added the IncludeSubDirectories and DirectoryRetrievalDepth connection properties to enable access to files within sub-folders of the specified URI root folder.
2024-10-2924.0.9068Microsoft ExcelAdded
  • Added a new connection property, StringDecode. When set to true, this property decodes hexacdeimal characters to their original non-printable control characters. (Default=false.)
2024-08-2024.0.8998Microsoft ExcelAdded
  • Added support for the following AWS regions: HYDERABAD, MELBOURNE, CALGARY, SPAIN, ISOLATEDUSEAST, ISOLATEDUSEASTB, and ISOLATEDUSWEST.
2024-07-2324.0.8970Microsoft ExcelChanged
  • The URI property can now be set to a local folder.
2024-06-2824.0.8945Microsoft ExcelRemoved
  • Removed the value "Auto" from the ConnectionType connection property. The default value is now "Local".
2024-06-1824.0.8935GeneralAdded
  • Added support for the "TELAVIV" region (Israel) in the AWSRegion connection property.
2024-06-1424.0.8931Microsoft ExcelAdded
  • Added support for the FreezePanes stored procedure.
2024-05-0924.0.8895GeneralChanged
  • The ROUND function previously did not accept negative precision values. That feature has now been restored.
2024-03-1523.0.8840GeneralAdded
  • Created a new SQL function called STRING_COMPARE that provides java's String.compare() ability to SQL queries. Returns a number representative of the compared value of two strings
2024-01-1823.0.8783ADO.NETAdded
  • Added support for EFCore 8.
2023-11-2923.0.8733GeneralChanged
  • The ROUND function doesn't accept the negative precision values anymore.
2023-11-2923.0.8733GeneralChanged
  • The returning types of the FDMonth, FDQuarter, FDWeek, LDMonth, LDQuarter, LDWeek functions are changed from Timestamp to Date.
  • The return type of the ABS function will be consistent with the parameter value type.
2023-11-2823.0.8732GeneralAdded
  • Added the HMACSHA256 formatter to allow for secrets to be decoded if it is in base64 format
2023-11-1523.0.8719ADO.NETChanged
  • NuGet license and icon are now embedded within the package itself, in compliance with the package authoring best practices.
2023-06-2023.0.8571GeneralAdded
  • Added the new sys_lastresultinfo system table.
2023-05-2323.0.8543Microsoft ExcelAdded
  • Added connection property "AggregateFiles", "IncludeSubdirectories" and "MetadataDiscoveryURI" to aggregate data from multiple files. When the "AggregateFiles" is set to true and the "BufferChanges" is set to false, the URI is allowed to set a local folder.
2023-05-1523.0.8535Microsoft ExcelAdded
  • Added CreateSchema as a stored procedure.
2023-04-2523.0.8515GeneralRemoved
  • Removed support for the SELECT INTO CSV statement. The core code doesn't support it anymore.
2023-04-1923.0.8509ADO.NETRemoved
  • Removed support for EFCore 3.1.
2023-04-1823.0.8508ADO.NETRemoved
  • Removed support for SSRS 2012
2023-04-1823.0.8508ADO.NETAdded
  • Added support for SSRS 2022.
2022-12-1422.0.8383GeneralChanged
  • Added the Default column to the sys_procedureparameters table.
2022-09-3022.0.8308GeneralChanged
  • Added the IsPath column to the sys_procedureparameters table.
2022-08-0322.0.8250Microsoft ExcelAdded
  • Added SkipTop connection property to skip the amount of rows specified starting from the top.
2022-06-0822.0.8194ADO.NETRemoved
  • Removed support for VS2010.
2022-05-2722.0.8182Microsoft ExcelAdded
  • Added ConnectionType connection property to select a storage type.
2022-05-2422.0.8179Microsoft ExcelChanged
  • Changed provider name to Microsoft Excel.
2022-05-1922.0.8174ADO.NETRemoved
  • Removed support for .NET 2.0.
2022-04-2722.0.8152ADO.NETRemoved
  • Removed support for EFCore 3.0 and EFCore5.0.
2022-03-1021.0.8104Microsoft ExcelAdded
  • Added support for Apache HDFS (webhdfs://) as a storage source.
2022-03-0921.0.8103Microsoft ExcelChanged
  • Changed the default method for submitting client_credentials grants with OAuth. Before, client_credentials would submit OAuthClientId and OAuthClientSecret using the HTTP Authorization header. Now the OAuthPasswordGrantType controls this setting and it defaults to OAuthPasswordGrantType=Post. The previous behavior is still available by setting OAuthPasswordGrantType=Basic.
2022-01-1321.0.8048Microsoft ExcelAdded
  • Added support for the IBM Cloud Object Storage (ibmobjectstorage://) as a storage source.
2021-09-0221.0.7915GeneralAdded
  • Added support for the STRING_SPLIT table-valued function in the CROSS APPLY clause.
2021-08-0721.0.7889GeneralChanged
  • Added the KeySeq column to the sys_foreignkeys table.
2021-08-0621.0.7888GeneralChanged
  • Added the new sys_primarykeys system table.
2021-07-2321.0.7874GeneralChanged
  • Updated the Literal Function Names for relative date/datetime functions. Previously, relative date/datetime functions resolved to a different value when used in the projection as opposed to the predicate. For example: SELECT LAST_MONTH() AS lm, Col FROM Table WHERE Col > LAST_MONTH(). Formerly, the two LAST_MONTH() methods would resolve to different datetimes. Now, they will match.
  • As a replacement for the previous behavior, the relative date/datetime functions in the criteria may have an 'L' appended to them. For example: WHERE col > L_LAST_MONTH(). This will continue to resolve to the same values that were previously calculated in the criteria. Note that the "L_" prefix will only work in the predicate - it not available for the projection.
2021-06-2821.0.7849Microsoft ExcelDeprecated
  • The connection property ExcelFile is deprecated and replaced by the connection property URI.
2021-06-2421.0.7845Microsoft ExcelAdded
  • Added support for the GOOGLEJSONBLOB JWT certificate type. This works like the existing GOOGLEJSON certificate type except that the certificate is provided as JSON text instead of as a file path.
2021-06-0821.0.7829Microsoft ExcelAdded
  • Added support for the AzureServicePrinciple authentication scheme, which will support both using an OAuthClientSecret, or alternatively using a JWT cert.
2021-06-0721.0.7828ADO.NETAdded
  • Added support for the DbCommand.CommandTimeout property.
2021-06-0521.0.7826Microsoft ExcelAdded
  • Added support to authenticate submitting JWT certs instead of the OAuthClientSecret for the AzureAD authentication scheme.
2021-05-2921.0.7819ADO.NETRemoved
  • Removed support for SSRS 2008.
2021-04-2521.0.7785GeneralAdded
  • Added support for handling client side formulas during insert / update. For example: UPDATE Table SET Col1 = CONCAT(Col1, " - ", Col2) WHERE Col2 LIKE 'A%'
2021-04-2321.0.7783GeneralChanged
  • Updated how display sizes are determined for varchar primary key and foreign key columns so they will match the reported length of the column.
2021-04-1621.0.7776ADO.NETChanged
  • Separated the ADO.NET Provider assembly and Entity Framework Core 5 Nuget packages.
  • Single precision floating point numbers are now reported as with the Data Type Name as "real". Double precision floating point numbers now have their Data Type Name reported as "float". This change does not impact the actual data types of these columns - only the reported data type name.
  • Separate EFCore 3.0, 3.1 and EFCore 5 dlls are now shipped with the driver. The 2.0 and 2.1 EFCore dlls are removed.
2021-04-1621.0.7776GeneralAdded
  • Non-conditional updates between two columns is now available to all drivers. For example: UPDATE Table SET Col1=Col2
2021-04-1621.0.7776GeneralChanged
  • Reduced the length to 255 for varchar primary key and foreign key columns.
2021-04-1621.0.7776GeneralChanged
  • Updated implicit and metadata caching to improve performance and support for multiple connections. Old metadata caches are not compatible - you need to generate new metadata caches if you are currently using CacheMetadata.
2021-04-1621.0.7776GeneralChanged
  • Updated index naming convention to avoid duplicates.
2021-04-1521.0.7775GeneralChanged
  • Kerberos authentication is updated to use TCP by default, but will fall back to UDP if a TCP connection cannot be established.

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