18. Excel 
18.1. Excel Version Support
The driver supports the Office Open XML spreadsheets used by Excel 2007 and later.
18.2. Connection Options
18.2.1. Authentication
Property | Description |
AuthScheme | The type of authentication to use when connecting to remote services. |
User | The Excel user account used to authenticate. |
Password | The password used to authenticate the user. |
SharePointEdition | The edition of SharePoint being used. Set either SharePointOnline or SharePointOnPremise. |
18.2.2. Connection
Property | Description |
URI | The Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) for the Excel resource location. |
DefineTables | Map Excel ranges to table names. |
Header | Indicates whether the first row should be used as a column header. |
Orientation | Indicates whether the data in Excel is laid out horizontally or vertically. |
ExcelFile | The location of an Excel file. |
BufferChanges | Indicates whether to hold changes to the data in memory until the connection is closed. |
Region | The hosting region for your S3-like Web Services. |
ProjectId | The id of the project where your Google Cloud Storage instance resides. |
OracleNamespace | The Oracle Cloud Object Storage namespace to use. |
StorageBaseURL | The URL of a cloud storage service provider. |
UseVirtualHosting | If true (default), buckets will be referenced in the request using the hosted-style request: http://yourbucket.s3.amazonaws.com/yourobject. If set to false, the bean will use the path-style request: http://s3.amazonaws.com/yourbucket/yourobject. Note that this property will be set to false, in case of an S3 based custom service when the CustomURL is specified. |
18.2.3. AWS Authentication
Property | Description |
AWSAccessKey | Your AWS account access key. This value is accessible from your AWS security credentials page. |
AWSSecretKey | Your AWS account secret key. This value is accessible from your AWS security credentials page. |
AWSRoleARN | The Amazon Resource Name of the role to use when authenticating. |
AWSPrincipalArn | The ARN of the SAML Identity provider in your AWS account. |
AWSRegion | The hosting region for your Amazon Web Services. |
AWSSessionToken | Your AWS session token. |
MFASerialNumber | The serial number of the MFA device if one is being used. |
MFAToken | The temporary token available from your MFA device. |
18.2.4. Azure Authentication
Property | Description |
AzureStorageAccount | The name of your Azure storage account. |
AzureAccessKey | The storage key associated with your Excel account. |
AzureSharedAccessSignature | A shared access key signature that may be used for authentication. |
AzureTenant | The Microsoft Online tenant being used to access data. If not specified, your default tentant will be used. |
AzureEnvironment | The Azure Environment to use when establishing a connection. |
18.2.5. SSO
Property | Description |
SSOLoginURL | The identity provider's login URL. |
SSOProperties | Additional properties required to connect to the identity provider in a semicolon-separated list. |
18.2.6. Data
Property | Description |
AllowFormula | Whether or not to treat values starting with an equals (=) sign as formulas during inserts and updates. |
EmptyValueMode | Indicates whether to read the empty values as empty or as null. |
NullValues | A comma separated list which will be replaced with nulls if there are found in the CSV file. |
IgnoreCalcError | Indicates whether to ignore errors that occurred during the calculation. |
NullValueMode | Indicates whether to read empty cells as null or as empty. |
HasCrossSheetReferences | Indicates how cross sheet references are handled. |
Recalculate | Indicates whether to recalculate all formulas when data is read. |
ShowEmptyRows | Indicates whether or not the empty rows should be pushed. |
TypeDetectionScheme | Determines how the provider detects the data types of columns. |
UseFastInsert | Indicates whether to use the fastInsert when executing Insert Statement. |
18.2.7. OAuth
Property | Description |
InitiateOAuth | Set this property to initiate the process to obtain or refresh the OAuth access token when you connect. |
OAuthVersion | The version of OAuth being used. |
OAuthClientId | The client ID assigned when you register your application with an OAuth authorization server. |
OAuthClientSecret | The client secret assigned when you register your application with an OAuth authorization server. |
OAuthAccessToken | The access token for connecting using OAuth. |
OAuthAccessTokenSecret | The OAuth access token secret for connecting using OAuth. |
OAuthSettingsLocation | The location of the settings file where OAuth values are saved when InitiateOAuth is set to GETANDREFRESH or REFRESH. Alternatively, this can be held in memory by specifying a value starting with memory://. |
CallbackURL | The OAuth callback URL to return to when authenticating. This value must match the callback URL you specify in your app settings. |
OAuthGrantType | The grant type for the OAuth flow. |
OAuthPasswordGrantMode | How to pass Client ID and Secret with OAuthGrantType is set to Password. |
OAuthIncludeCallbackURL | Whether to include the callback URL in an access token request. |
OAuthAuthorizationURL | The authorization URL for the OAuth service. |
OAuthAccessTokenURL | The URL to retrieve the OAuth access token from. |
OAuthRefreshTokenURL | The URL to refresh the OAuth token from. |
OAuthRequestTokenURL | The URL the service provides to retrieve request tokens from. This is required in OAuth 1.0. |
OAuthVerifier | The verifier code returned from the OAuth authorization URL. |
AuthToken | The authentication token used to request and obtain the OAuth Access Token. |
AuthKey | The authentication secret used to request and obtain the OAuth Access Token. |
OAuthParams | A comma-separated list of other parameters to submit in the request for the OAuth access token in the format paramname=value. |
OAuthRefreshToken | The OAuth refresh token for the corresponding OAuth access token. |
OAuthExpiresIn | The lifetime in seconds of the OAuth AccessToken. |
OAuthTokenTimestamp | The Unix epoch timestamp in milliseconds when the current Access Token was created. |
18.2.8. JWT OAuth
Property | Description |
OAuthJWTCert | The JWT Certificate store. |
OAuthJWTCertType | The type of key store containing the JWT Certificate. |
OAuthJWTCertPassword | The password for the OAuth JWT certificate. |
OAuthJWTCertSubject | The subject of the OAuth JWT certificate. |
OAuthJWTIssuer | The issuer of the Java Web Token. |
OAuthJWTSubject | The user subject for which the application is requesting delegated access. |
18.2.9. Kerberos
Property | Description |
KerberosKeytabFile | The Keytab file containing your pairs of Kerberos principals and encrypted keys. |
18.2.10. SSL
Property | Description |
SSLClientCert | The TLS/SSL client certificate store for SSL Client Authentication (2-way SSL). |
SSLClientCertType | The type of key store containing the TLS/SSL client certificate. |
SSLClientCertPassword | The password for the TLS/SSL client certificate. |
SSLClientCertSubject | The subject of the TLS/SSL client certificate. |
SSLMode | The authentication mechanism to be used when connecting to the FTP or FTPS server. |
SSLServerCert | The certificate to be accepted from the server when connecting using TLS/SSL. |
18.2.11. SSH
Property | Description |
SSHAuthMode | The authentication method to be used to log on to an SFTP server. |
SSHClientCert | A certificate to be used for authenticating the user. |
SSHClientCertPassword | The password of the SSHClientCert certificate if it has one. |
SSHClientCertType | The type of SSHClientCert certificate. |
18.2.12. Firewall
Property | Description |
FirewallType | The protocol used by a proxy-based firewall. |
FirewallServer | The name or IP address of a proxy-based firewall. |
FirewallPort | The TCP port for a proxy-based firewall. |
FirewallUser | The user name to use to authenticate with a proxy-based firewall. |
FirewallPassword | A password used to authenticate to a proxy-based firewall. |
18.2.13. Proxy
Property | Description |
ProxyAutoDetect | This indicates whether to use the system proxy settings or not. This takes precedence over other proxy settings, so you'll need to set ProxyAutoDetect to FALSE in order use custom proxy settings. |
ProxyServer | The hostname or IP address of a proxy to route HTTP traffic through. |
ProxyPort | The TCP port the ProxyServer proxy is running on. |
ProxyAuthScheme | The authentication type to use to authenticate to the ProxyServer proxy. |
ProxyUser | A user name to be used to authenticate to the ProxyServer proxy. |
ProxyPassword | A password to be used to authenticate to the ProxyServer proxy. |
ProxySSLType | The SSL type to use when connecting to the ProxyServer proxy. |
ProxyExceptions | A semicolon separated list of destination hostnames or IPs that are exempt from connecting through the ProxyServer . |
18.2.14. Logging
Property | Description |
Logfile | A filepath which designates the name and location of the log file. |
Verbosity | The verbosity level that determines the amount of detail included in the log file. |
LogModules | Core modules to be included in the log file. |
MaxLogFileSize | A string specifying the maximum size in bytes for a log file (for example, 10 MB). |
MaxLogFileCount | A string specifying the maximum file count of log files. |
18.2.15. Schema
Property | Description |
Location | A path to the directory that contains the schema files defining tables, views, and stored procedures. |
BrowsableSchemas | This property restricts the schemas reported to a subset of the available schemas. For example, BrowsableSchemas=SchemaA,SchemaB,SchemaC. |
Tables | This property restricts the tables reported to a subset of the available tables. For example, Tables=TableA,TableB,TableC. |
Views | Restricts the views reported to a subset of the available tables. For example, Views=ViewA,ViewB,ViewC. |
18.2.16. Caching
Property | Description |
AutoCache | Automatically caches the results of SELECT queries into a cache database specified by either CacheLocation or both of CacheConnection and CacheProvider . |
CacheDriver | The database driver to be used to cache data. |
CacheConnection | The connection string for the cache database. This property is always used in conjunction with CacheProvider . Setting both properties will override the value set for CacheLocation for caching data. |
CacheLocation | Specifies the path to the cache when caching to a file. |
CacheTolerance | The tolerance for stale data in the cache specified in seconds when using AutoCache . |
Offline | Use offline mode to get the data from the cache instead of the live source. |
CacheMetadata | This property determines whether or not to cache the table metadata to a file store. |
18.2.17. Miscellaneous
Property | Description |
BatchSize | The maximum size of each batch operation to submit. |
Charset | Specifies the session character set for encoding and decoding character data transferred to and from the Excel file. The default value is UTF-8. |
ClientCulture | This property can be used to specify the format of data (e.g., currency values) that is accepted by the client application. This property can be used when the client application does not support the machine's culture settings. For example, Microsoft Access requires 'en-US'. |
ConnectionLifeTime | The maximum lifetime of a connection in seconds. Once the time has elapsed, the connection object is disposed. |
ConnectOnOpen | This property species whether to connect to the Excel when the connection is opened. |
Culture | This setting can be used to specify culture settings that determine how the provider interprets certain data types that are passed into the provider. For example, setting Culture='de-DE' will output German formats even on an American machine. |
CustomHeaders | Other headers as determined by the user (optional). |
CustomUrlParams | The custom query string to be included in the request. |
IncludeDropboxTeamResources | Indicates if you want to include Dropbox team files and folders. |
MaxRows | Limits the number of rows returned rows when no aggregation or group by is used in the query. This helps avoid performance issues at design time. |
Other | These hidden properties are used only in specific use cases. |
PoolIdleTimeout | The allowed idle time for a connection before it is closed. |
PoolMaxSize | The maximum connections in the pool. |
PoolMinSize | The minimum number of connections in the pool. |
PoolWaitTime | The max seconds to wait for an available connection. |
PseudoColumns | This property indicates whether or not to include pseudo columns as columns to the table. |
Readonly | You can use this property to enforce read-only access to Excel from the provider. |
RowScanDepth | The maximum number of rows to scan to look for the columns available in a table. |
RTK | The runtime key used for licensing. |
SupportEnhancedSQL | This property enhances SQL functionality beyond what can be supported through the API directly, by enabling in-memory client-side processing. |
Timeout | The value in seconds until the timeout error is thrown, canceling the operation. |
UseConnectionPooling | This property enables connection pooling. |